Happy to report that my daughter is a throw-back exception. She got her license last month on the first day it was legally possible, worked three jobs to help buy her first car, and I have barely seen her since. She and her boyfriend of nearly a year are talking about taking a road trip this summer.
Happy to report that my daughter is a throw-back exception. She got her license last month on the first day it was legally possible, worked three jobs to help buy her first car, and I have barely seen her since. She and her boyfriend of nearly a year are talking about taking a road trip this summer.
Her younger brother is twelve. I can feel the magnet of society trying to pull him and his peers inexorably away from work, independence, relationship and adventure, and toward passivity, in the form of a big bean bag, head set and game console.
Your son will do just as great as his sister. Resist the peer pressure to buy him the bean bag, head set & game console. Just say no. Don't do it. Even if "all his friends" have it. Talk to the other moms too. Also something I'm doing:
Happy to report that my daughter is a throw-back exception. She got her license last month on the first day it was legally possible, worked three jobs to help buy her first car, and I have barely seen her since. She and her boyfriend of nearly a year are talking about taking a road trip this summer.
Her younger brother is twelve. I can feel the magnet of society trying to pull him and his peers inexorably away from work, independence, relationship and adventure, and toward passivity, in the form of a big bean bag, head set and game console.
Your daughter is awesome & way to go! wow
Your son will do just as great as his sister. Resist the peer pressure to buy him the bean bag, head set & game console. Just say no. Don't do it. Even if "all his friends" have it. Talk to the other moms too. Also something I'm doing:
https://www.waituntil8th.org/