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When your teenager wants to make a life-changing decision

My seventeen-year-old wants to drop out of high school to pursue music and part of me thinks he's talented enough but I'm scared he'll regret it forever if I let him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent struggles to distinguish between protecting their child from a mistake and protecting their child's right to choose their own path.

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