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Originally posted by lifesaver
If you are as good of a dad as you probably really are then you will have nothing to worry about. You will raise a smart intellegent son who will have been given the tools to make HIS own decisions. If you don't think you will trust his decisions, then now is the time to start doing a better job as a parent.
It has nothing to do with greek life. Good or bad, his decisions will be his. Thats the only way he will learn and grow as an individual. I've learned far more from my failures than from my successes.
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That's the best advice possible. As another parent of a (soon-to-be) 7 year-old boy, I couldn't have said it better. The task now is to teach him how to make good decisions. That includes letting him screw-up so that he can learn from his mistakes.
It also includes teaching him to be comfortable with (and proud of) who he is. Submitting to hazing to belong is just another step in the peer pressure chain that you will soon see if you haven't already. Helping a child to have enough self-confidence and self-assurance to withstand that peer pressure is perhaps one of the greatest tasks for any parent.
Good luck (to all of us)!