<p>I’ve told my boys point blank that if they don’t want to go to college they don’t have to!!! Although actually it was along the lines of, “You’re going to have to decide how you are going to spend your time over the next year. If what you want to do is play Magic and post on message boards you can do that for free. If you’re going to commit yourself to thousands of dollars in student loans you need to make up your mind that you’re going to do your best at college, because otherwise it’s going to be YOUR loss because you’ll have to repay student loans for time you wasted.”</p>
<p>I want my boys to do well at college, but I also want them to take some time to have fun. No one performs well if it’s all work. Besides which, both have chosen what will be fairly sedentary pursuits (video game design and illustration) so I’m actually AS concerned about them developing some ‘active’ hobbies over the next year as I am about how much time they spend doing homework.</p>