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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"My child GETS that we have an unwritten contract: I will write checks for four years (that represent decades of hard work on my part), because she is mature and responsible enough to make good use of my investment. I am not underwriting Animal House antics. What kind of employees (and spouses) will your kids be if you don't hold them accountable now????"

They will be employees and spouses who got the Animal House antics out of their systems and chose a better path.

That is to say they will be intrinsically motivated employees and spouses rather than extrinsically motivated robots who some day might figure out they have free will.
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People who have to be held accountable by someone else have a fairly low ceiling on how far they will get.[/b]
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Agree. [/quote]

Agree 100% with this. I was looking for a response like this.

I crashed and burned my freshman year of college after always making straight As at a challenging private high school and playing a varsity/club sport all 4 years of high school. Honestly, I was burnt out before I even went to college and I had no idea how to handle the independence and less structured days when I got there, and I was way more focused on making friends and having fun. Ended up with something like a 2.5 GPA my first semester, even failed another class later on. Still had a great time the rest of college and graduated with a 3.2. I figured it out myself, grew up, had a job the summer after I graduated through the career center (with zero help from my parents or family friend network), never moved home, and haven't ever looked back. I am an excellent employee and was a manager at my firm by age 27. My parents never once threatened to bring me home (and I was far away, paying out of state tuition at WM), and I'm so glad they let me figure my sh-t out. And I fully launched the day I graduated and moved here, despite that 2.5 first semester.

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