# At some point a parent has to allow their son/daughter to make their own   
   # decisions. Those decisions may be either for the better or for the worse. One   
   # can only hope that you as a parent have instilled in them the ability to   
   # listen   
   #  to those that care about them and to consider what advice they are  given. A   
   # an adult the actual decision needs to be theirs. I realize that this isn't th   
   # advise that you were wanting to hear. I would submit that what is important i   
   # that they know and believe that regardless of their decision that you as a   
   # parent will be there for them if needed. Children seem to learn best by doing   
   # Regardless of the outcome of that doing process.   
       
   I suspect that you are right, it is what I've been thinking, but it is   
   hard as hell to get out of this protective mode I've been in for a very   
   long time.  Thanks.   
      
      
   --- GTMail 1.26    
    * Origin: GTPower Prison BBS Mesquite Tx (1:124/5015.5)