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[quote=Anonymous]OP here -- just to be clear, my 3rd grader hasn't said -- so what if I don't go to college or so what if I have a kid at 19, they did. But I can see him saying/thinking that way at age 13. Yes -- we'd punish him for backtalk, but we can't stop the observations -- whether he ever voices them to us or not.

For those saying I'm elitist and I look down on my family -- you have every right to your opinion, but if I hated them so much, why would I be going back every month for every event with them? I don't look down on my family, and I actually DON'T believe that everyone HAS to go to college. However having grown up someplace with economic hardship, I do believe that everyone has to develop some kind of specialized skill -- so if you're not going to college, you better be learning a trade that's employable. I have too many family members who have jumped from retail job to retail job to an occasional factory job for their whole lives -- and when I see the next generation -- my nieces and nephews doing it, I do feel bad that they don't realize or even want to realize that life could be a LOT easier for them going forward if they'd just dedicate 2-4 yrs to college or training for something now. You can say I'm looking down on him -- but I am sad for my 20 yr old nephew who just got his girlfriend pregnant; being a 20 yr old married father working 2 part time jobs is not going to be easy for him.

So yeah -- I want my kids choosing different roads bc I want their lives to be as "easy" as possible -- not that ease is ever guaranteed.[/quote]

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