It is perfectly fine to choose life over a job. The problem is that if you drop out of school and start taking drugs in your teens it is not really a choice bit rather a consequence. My aim is to get my kids to adulthood with as many options open as possible.
Agreed. And I would rather my kids have the ability to support themselves so that they would be able to enjoy life instead of constantly worrying about where their next paycheck is coming from….which is hard to do without some kind of degree. I was lucky in that when I did fail out of school in 9th grade (for truancy) my mom made sure I got back into school and back on track.
