<p>This paragraph from your link is funny:</p>
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<p>A few years ago, there was a news about a Yale College graduate who, at the age of 30, was still obsessed with playing the classic “Star War” game (trying to break the world record) and just started to go to some professional school (I think near Portland, OR.) When DS read the article about it at that time, he actually thought he had a very good attitude about how to live a life. Also, one of his friends at Yale actually could not care less about whether he would be able to graduate “on time.” (He did though. But he is one of those students who really could not care less about the grades, even though he is very intelligent. I heard he tended to read everything except what the professors assigned, unless the professor/college happened to assign something to his taste, like working on the senior project, which he had completed a full year prior to the graduation.)</p>
<p>I think one of the best decision we made was to send our child thousands miles away for college. This really enables him to “grow up.” In recent years, he gently reminded us several times that he could handle this or that by himself when we were trying to “help.” It is often the case that the parent, not the child, who does not want to cut the cord. I suspect that it is likely that only after the child has found his/her steady “soul mate” that the parents will finally be “forced out.”</p>
<p>With this said, one of our “assignments” to ourselves in the coming year is to find a dependable car for him, at least to write a check for it as he really does not have any (positive) income. (Back to square one. LOL.)</p>