Expectations on your children...
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Expectations on your children...
| Thu, 06-03-2004 - 1:56pm |
Wrt their working status/parenting as an adult?
If you SAH, will you encourage your daughter (or son) to do the same? How would you feel if they chose different from the path you have taken as a parent?

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First off, I would expect having the degree would make one somewhat more lucky in terms of officer program candidacy. Second...if that person were to leave the military, the degree is going to be widely applicable to the workforce. A good number of military trades won't be.
Mondo
Going from Officer to Enlisted is very hard.
I very much agree.
I have two adult children. We do still pay some of their expences but there are conditions. The condition is that they are in college. We pay their auto insurance, we pay their cell phone bills (minus any overage they acquire), we pay their medical expences. We will pay them as long as they are in college. We pay them because it is very hard to make enough money to be financially independent while attending college full time.
Next May when DD1 graduates we will no longer pay her expences. Since she will not longer be in college she will be able to work the hours needed to pay her own expences.
If DD3 decides not to go to college then we will not pay her expences. Again because if she is not going to school she will be able to work the hours she needs to pay her own expences.
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