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How to support adult children's educational choices when you don't understand the field

My adult daughter is taking expensive online courses to change careers and asking me for financial help but I don't understand what she's learning or whether it's legitimate and I want to support her but I also don't want to enable poor decisions and we can't seem to have an honest conversation about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two generations are trying to navigate support and autonomy around learning paths that one person cannot fully evaluate.

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