<p>Yep, I’m buggin’ out, too. At least, until the beginning of the school year, when I usually return to CC. Our son, the youngest, will be a senior. </p>
<p>The collective hystrionics on CC has gotten to me this year, for some reason, and I’m a little tired of it. Imho, the opportunity to go to college is still the dream, and dreams are not defined by letters of the alphabet or decimal points. We’re driving ourselves and our kids crazy because we ARE too involved. </p>
<p>It’s a wonder that high schools and colleges don’t tell this entire generation of parents to go jump in the lake! Parents are frustrated, colleges are gyrating every year to keep up, and I’m starting to see juniors and seniors imploding because the last two years of high school have little to offer in terms of growing up. We line them up like bowling pins, and then, wait for the college process to take over. </p>
<p>I look at my son, now, and think about how I would feel if he changed his personality over the summer and became ambitious about college. He’ll still throw his clothes and socks all over the place, and my garage will still be full of drums, amps, cables, and guitars from his band practices. But, as long as he’s going to school every day, and he ends up in a cap and gown in June with a diploma in his hand, we’ve done our job. If he goes to college in the Fall of 2006, or sticks a feather in his a** and calls himself a duck (I’d prefer the college option) --don’t care! We’ll be proud of him. :)</p>
<p>Count me in with BHG and Sluggbugg. And having just come back from a trip to Hawaii, aloha in two senses of the word–love to all, and farewell for a while. Hope my PM friends will send me one from time to time and anyone interested in Stanford and athletics is always welcome to write, too. (as long as they can filter out all my biased views!)</p>
<p>Best to Soozie’s daughter and I don’t know what else has been going on (alluding to Sybbie’s post) here, but hope y’all will still be around when I come back for serious advice times two in a couple of years!!</p>
<p>Internet, cell phones, etc.–sometimes, for some people me included, they can get in the way of fully living life. For others it can all be managed beautifully, and my figurative hat is off to them.</p>
<p>My plan all along was to quit at 500 posts, timed perfectly with son’s decision of where to go to school. But, he has been fortunate, I have had some questions, and in fact will wait till mid May at least to learn about his wait list school…so it has been a bit more complicated.</p>
<p>For me it will be cold turkey once he is decided…and once I figure out whom from CC I can meet at Parents’ Weekend…wherever that may be!</p>
<p>But please, let’s all unsubscribe from everything except either leave the PM on or exchange emails! I have gotten such good advice from some of you I would be sad to lose it altogether!</p>
<p>Sluggs…oh, dear. I hadn’t seen your bar post before. Oh…my.</p>
<p>SBMom, be careful…you can be about to leave and then you see somebody raise a question that you know the ins and outs of and you’ll stop to answer. Before you know it, a small crowd has collected to listen to your dialogue. And then…</p>
<p>Sbmom and thedad-
Oh, don’t go---- if you add the total # of both of your posts, you have more than Carolyn! Seriously, I agree with SBmom-- we have some collective great minds here, with sage advice…I have learned a lot from all of you. I have cut back on the # of threads I read, and consequently the # of posts and amount of time spent… but boy is Thedad right in his last post!!</p>
<p>300 posts=Member
I like this site because I always learn something new, but lately I don’t need to learn anything new because I have other priorities that need my attention.</p>
<p>I go underground for periods of time. Fortunately I get a three year hiatus after back-to-back graduates. I’ll probably peek in occasionally, but now that all the letters and fin aid letters have arrived, I don’t need to track to see where the 'dillo is with ours. On the one hand, I can usually provide some first hand information and help those that want to be helped. On the other hand, some of the kids with very high levels of self esteem bother me.</p>
<p>I’ve always had a problem with forum addiction too. They’re my primary form of social contact since I don’t go outside much. But it was worst in my 6th-7th grades, at HeavenGames. There, from 6th-9th grades, my toal post count went over 10,000!</p>
<p>Plus, very very few of my posts are +1 post count posts, unlike other people with super-high post counts.</p>
On the one hand, I can usually provide some first hand information and help those that want to be helped. On the other hand, some of the kids with very high levels of self esteem bother me.</p>