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[quote=Anonymous]I've been pondering this situation since reading the OP. Let's say he does need a mental health break because of COVID and so on. And it definitely will be difficult to force him back in a few weeks without dad on board. So, how about the parents say yes to travel? Right now. Like, work another month and we'll buy the airplane ticket and you use what you've got saved from the summer till next month for your expenses. Spend 6-8 months traveling the world and get it out of your system. And btw have a great time. Don't even come home for Christmas, just check out Germany or Norway over the holidays, or I hear Oaxaca has a fantastic Christmas season.

This won't cost them any more than they would have spent on tuition. I bet the airfare will be less than the groceries a 19-yr-old boy eats.

It gets him out of the grip of the restaurant and whatever negative influences may be present there, and it takes away his ability to be pissed off at mom and dad. When he gets back next spring he can get another job to pull together funds for the 23-34 school year and he will be able to return to campus without hanging his head in shame and feeling off track. Instead, he's the coolest kid on campus who got to serve beer in an English pub and two months later was swimming at a waterfront resort in Croatia. He will also have been exposed to the wide wide world and feel on a visceral level how small that little restaurant in a DMV suburb really is. Finishing college might be a no brainer for him at that point. The other great thing about this is that it will force him to count dollars as he selects pensiones and hostels and thinks about his day-to-day grocery bill. He'll have to decide on taking a bus or the more expensive train. Spending more will mean his money runs out sooner. All of these things are great lessons, and what you'd hope to teach him about money by charging him for his living expenses back home. Most young people traveling internationally are not eating out and living big, even if they come from UMC families. It's the free time that costs money, which is why working class kids like I was never get to have this sort of adventure.  [/quote]

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