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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 14 year old is the same way. He just doesn’t see the point in the rat race and says it’s better to enjoy life. I point out that life is easier when you have a higher paying job and a nice house but he says he would rather live in a converted bus or van and travel around the country enjoying life surfing and camping.

I sent him for a week over break to a relative’s house in Colorado that lives in a semi-rural place to do physical labor. I thought he would learn that it is tough and he wouldn’t want that type of life. Turns out he loved it and didn’t mind working 8 hours doing physical labor. He said he would be happy dropping out and working on the ranch and skiing on his days off. [/quote]

The worst thing you could do is criticize his choices.  He’s not a carbon copy of his father.  He is his own person.

He’s only 14, who knows what he’ll end up doing.  But if he decides he loves the Colorado lifestyle, the outdoors, working with his hands, then you did your job and consider yourself lucky to have a successful satisfied kid who loves what he does.  [/quote]

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