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Originally Posted by Matt Monson
It's too late to forcefully do anything with him. We say that 18 is an adult, but at 16 he's well on his way to being his own person. My dad learned that the hard way. 3 of the 4 of us had really bad relationships with him for a decade or more because of his attempts to push us a certain way counter to his claims that he would love us just the same regardless of what we decided to do with our lives. It doesn't work. The best thing you can do for him is let him fall down and pick himself up.
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Maybe. But he's a 16 year old. Not exactly apt to make the best life long decisions without some sound guidance.
I always let them make their own decisions, but those decisions were (hopefully) heavily influenced by our continued brain washing of what were the best decisions for them to make.
Once again, it ain't easy.