Don't go there with the controlling nonsense

My opion is based on my own life experience as well as seeing others' children flounder after high school while supposedly taking a little "time off" to find themselves and "focus" on what they wanted.

Some found meaningless jobs that got them some money now (Diablo 3 Gold), enough to have a good time but no future, no career and couldn't be convinced otherwise.

Some get involved with the party life and enjoyed it too much to go back to school. Also ended up in meaningless dead end jobs just enough to afford the life style but nothing more.

And a few did go back to school but on a part time basis ending up taking as long as 6 or 7 years just to complete a Bachelors degree. Some of them never finished their degree at all, dropping out with only a few credits remaining.

Happiness is fine. Life is too bleak not to have some measure of it. But you're risking your future for the present, an all too common approach in America today.

Actually, at the time she was living with her mother. Her mother and I stood at the delivery and together assisted in the birth of my grandson. My stepdaughter was a senior in high school and she finished school with the baby in a program at the school and after graduation went to work (her choice). She and her husband of about 16 years now own their own business and are the parents of my grandson (who, I was just notified is the fist string quarterback and ran for 175 yards in his last game...excuse the Grandma moment, please) and his sister (Diablo 3 Gold), my granddaughter with the disorders.

If she had chosen to surrender, which I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine, I would have done everything in my power to discourage, but ultimately the decision was hers to make. Fortunately, having seen the sadness and heartbreak caused by adoption and reunion, adoption never crossed her mind. She and the father broke up when she announced she was pregnant, so he was not in the picture. Her mother helped her, we helped her and her now-husband helped, but she did it.

BTW, since then she has taken classes at the community college but she really has never been interested in formal education, even before she got pregnant. If she sees a need, she will go back to school for what she needs to run their business.