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Originally Posted by Patton250
Reading your post reinforces some thing I’ve now known for a long time now and that is where your kids go to school is the most important decision you can possibly make for their childhood. I’m terribly sorry you went through all of that. I appreciate you sharing it.
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Thanks. Writing all that was oddly cathartic.
Good schools is something to consider, definitely.
Honestly, it's a balancing act as a parent because we work against societies bad influences (the internet), bad friends (that our kids gravitate toward), and adolescence/physiology (hormones, mental states, etc.).
The biggest glimmer of hope I had came from a missionary at church who works with runaway and troubled youth. He said basically, kids are dumb until 25. That's roughly the age when the body stop changing and the pre-frontal cortex of the brain settles in... the part of the brain that makes decisions.
I've got 5 years to go.