We tell our kids from the moment they are born they can be anything they want to be when they grow up. We teach them to work hard and chase their dreams. Sometimes life and biology get in the way. Your kid has a learning disability that makes working hard not enough. Sometimes it is socio-economic hurdles and sometimes physical. Kids learn to adapt and work with what they have some still reach their dreams and find ways. When a child who is "normal" in every sense of the word except academics it is heartbreaking. You see the struggle, you keep encouraging, you pray for that miracle. You can't force a brain to exceed it's limitations. Yet that child has amazing talents and gifts. A magic for cooking and an eye for beauty and an ability to capture it with photography. You send her to college with pride she made it in. Then the academic part gets too hard. So hard that after 30 plus years away from school yourself you can no longer help. What do you do? How do you tell your kid it may be time to call it quits. Is trying and failing enough? I am so proud of her for trying. I am so proud of her for not giving up. Now she is contemplating it. I don't know what to do.
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