TT - Seriously? If so, kudos to you for encouraging him. I wish there were more people like you.
Yep, seriously.
My other boys were all over-achievers, excellent grades all
through school, good in sports, real active in church, hard working and never a problem with the law, drugs or booze. They've all grown to have nice families and good careers and I'm very proud of them.
But this one son marched to a different drummer I guess. He never got in any real trouble but he sure as heck did everything he shouldn't and nothing he should have. And he wasn't a rude or disrespectful boy, he was just in his world.
I lived and worked overseas and the kids got most of their education in Switzerland and then they came back to the States to go to college. The other boys I never worried much about them being here and on their own ... but my problem boy, I have to admit I was nervous when he came here to study.
He went to school first in New Mexico and something about it clicked with him and he settled down and got busy. It wasn't anything my wife or I did, he seemed to make this change on his own.
But now he has a fine job, is real big in the Masons, has a very nice family and is doing very well for himself.
Like I said, you just never know. They are capable of really surprising you.
TT