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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents can push all they want for Ivy. Its a scam. Both DH and I are entrepreneurs and that is a mindset that wins every time. It can even win without a degree.

[b]My son is the ONLY child mowing lawns.[/b] He is 15 and next spring his first car will be a pickup to trailer his equipment. He has 1 kid he pays on his busiest days to help. Next spring he will drive his own truck. He has had to knock on doors, convince people to spend their money with a neighborhood kid, and deliver a consistent product. He has 14 regular customers for mowing at 40/wk each and then has been busy with leaves and mulching this fall. We're teaching him that the way to freedom and success in this country is to rely on yourself and not be an office drone.[/quote]

I'm sure you realize that outside of the UMC, many teens are mowing lawns, raking leaves, and shoveling snow. We're lower MC and not white. For nearly all of the boys in my extended family, starting your own yard work business is a rite of passage at age 12. The difference between our families seems to be that our boys save their profits for college where they go into STEM majors.[/quote]

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