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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she is not going to apply herself towards school with an eye towards college, then she needs to start planning for what she'll do instead.  That means that effective immediately, she will need to get a job and pay rent and either a portion towards weekly groceries or buy her own food, and she'll need to pay for her phone plan.  You'll support her as long as she stays in school and gets passing grades.  If she fails, then she needs to provide income for household expenses.  Tell her that she has one month to get her grades up to the passing level and if they are not, then she'll need to get a job and pay rent.  If you want, you can put anything that she pays for room & board into a separate bank account which you can turn back over to her if she decides to go to college or needs tuition for a technical school, training school, whatever she decides to do.

She can opt to be lazy, but she'll have to pay for that privilege.  Plus she'll have a head start on employment for when she graduates or fails to graduate.  These days, it's very hard to make ends meet without even a diploma.  And it is not a good life for someone who is lazy since many who do not have a diploma end up working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.[/quote]

NP - I am also having the exact problem with my DD.  I could have written the post myself..scary!  Anyway, I never thought about this option, but it's something to consider.  DD wants a job, but I have been against it because I wanted her to focus on school, but that is not happening.  So, she may as well get a job because at this point, I can't see her getting into a good college for her desired major.[/quote]

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