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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your family sounds nuts; I don't blame your kid for wanting to go elsewhere.   [/quote]

Thanks for the help. now piss off. [/quote]

The PP could have said it more nicely, but they are correct.  It is nuts for like 6 generations of a family to all do the same thing, and it is nuts to expect a child to want to do the same thing just because all the men in his family have done it for 6 generations (or whatever.)  I think it speaks well of your child that he wants to see what he can do on his own merit.  Try to help your other family members see that this is possibly a sign that the child has an independent brain in his head, which is never a bad thing.  My kids are a couple years younger but I really hope they never feel like they need to do something just because I did it, or their father did it.

Besides, look at it this way...if he makes his own decisions and they turn out badly, at least he won't resent you for it. If he goes to Princeton and his life ends up crappy (stuck in an unfulfilling job on Wall Street, always wondering what could have been if he'd followed his own instincts), he'll just resent you, and never visit you in what I'm sure will be a very nice nursing home.[/quote]

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