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Future Boy

My son has been amazing me lately. He’s becoming very interested in designing, building and inventing things. Basically, he’s my little engineer! He actually sketched out his concept of a manned mission to Mars. What he did was draw the basic flight plan in his notebook with some key milestones on the trip – launch, refueling points, landing and the return trip. My little 10 year old actually said to me, “all I have to do now is figure out how much fuel the ship will need.” It almost brought tears to my eyes.

His teacher said to him that he should be a scientist or engineer since he’s so interested in things like that. His grades in math and science are pretty good.

I guess I’m somewhat responsible for this as I watch a lot of Discovery Channel, Science Channel and documentaries with subjects of science and engineering things which he watches with me. I’m also very interested in the space program (manned and unmanned) and he’s interested in it, too, almost by osmosis. When you think about it, most of this television can be very entertaining if you are into those sorts of things and compared to most of the crap that’s on TV lately he could do a lot worse watching most other shows.

This is one of the reasons I really want him to attend this local Catholic high school that is very good but very expensive (currently $8,000 a year). So that’s why I have to put a substantial amount of money from the sale of our house away to pay for it. I certainly won’t be able to pay for college (I’m praying for academic and athletic scholarships plus student loans to take care of that) but I sure as shit will do my best to put him in a great position to get into a good college by getting him into the best high school I can afford.

The high school we are aiming for is one that is highly regarded, has many notable alumni, and has a great athletic program. In fact, the hockey team and football teams are all ranked as one of the top 3 in the state. Also, many of its alumni have gone on to high level executive positions in business, entertainment, industry and government. My brother went there and it sure did well by him.

I want my son to at least have a better start than I did (not that mine wasn’t a good start but it was the best my parents could do) and I see this as a great way to point him in the right direction. Now, over the next 4 years, I must make sure he gets the grades to be accepted to the school and I must have the money saved to pay for it.

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posted by section306g @ 9:29 PM