My 23-year-old daughter April is supposed to be going to community college this year so she can finish her degree. I am a single mother and I pay for her tuition, her room, and her board. (She lives at home.) Classes started two weeks ago, and she still hasn't registered for school.

I have been nagging her to register and she says she will -- but she doesn't do anything. She stays out late at night partying with friends who I think of as her garbage friends. They are not true friends to her. Once April needed bus fare to get home, and they wouldn't lend it to her.

April has had a problem with responsibility since she turned 13. Once she is home and working she can do a good job. But she doesn't keep her commitments. This week I asked her to help me paint the living room and she agreed but didn't show up at the time we arranged. Finally she came home at midnight, painted all night, and did a beautiful job. But in the morning, she was too tired to get up and go to college.

I've tried to take her to psychologists in the past. She agrees to go and then misses the appointments. I've tried not giving her money, telling her she has to pay her for her own things. But then she just goes into extreme debt.

I want to help her but I don't know how.

Help.