<p>NOT the sentence that you want the GC to write on the college app … the REAL sentence that describes the REAL kid that is sitting in his/her room right now …</p>
<p>A thirty year old soul in a 14 year olds’ body.</p>
<p>Sometimes I have to remind her that she is a teenager! :)</p>
<p>aashad, too funny, I was just going to write “An old soul”. Somehow I managed to give birth to my mother!</p>
<p>Haha! Me, too! She just rolls her eyes at me as if “I’m” the immature one! :)</p>
<p>aashad, have same idea here.</p>
<p>We have referred to S1 as a 50 year old man in whatever age body he is at the time. He has been a very sure of himself, self-motivated, goal driven person from a very young age.</p>
<p>Sorry 2 sentences…</p>
<p>Talking to her is like talking directly to a tornado.</p>
<p>Feel free to interpret that both positively and negatively. 
Contrary to popular belief, it ain’t always easy raising one of these.</p>
<p>S1 - Brilliant, if only we knew what he was talking about.</p>
<p>S2 - Procrastinator, but somehow he nearly always pulls it off. (like his parents sad to say.)</p>
<p>Haha my mom was walking by as I clicked on this thread and I asked her to describe me in one sentence… she goes: </p>
<p>I don’t need a sentence, only a word, you’re weird.</p>
<p>D: “There are six different analytical paradigms for determining the emptiness or fullness of a glass, but which one you choose winds up being political.”</p>
<p>S: “There’s the perfect amount of water in that glass!”</p>
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<p>Same here, though a she is a he :)</p>
<p>And I also wish I knew at least half of the time what my kids are talking about!</p>
<p>He needs to be an absent minded professor.</p>
<p>She has the wonder and delight of a young soul, who surrounds herself with friends and her frisbee, skipping, smiling.</p>
<p>She’s amazingly multi-faceted. (Think: like all the overlapping petals of a rose…or each brilliant side of a diamond…or Sybil and all her personalities!!!) hmmm…can you tell that it was one of the evil “twins” that occupied her body tonight!!! hahahaha.</p>
<p>S was perfectly described by his preschool teacher as 3 going on 40. Fortunately he seems to be youthening slightly in college. <grin></grin></p>
<p>D loves people and understands them so well; she also loves art.</p>
<p>S1: is The most laidback, social, diligent, liberal and totally non-competitive kid I’ve ever known.
S2: is A creative thinker who sees the world differently.
S3: is A happy, even-keeled, competitive, gregarious and sometimes argumentative young person.</p>
<p>Son is the most perceptive absent-minded musician you’ll ever meet.</p>
<p>Daughter makes everything look easy even though she’s probably a nervous wreck about it all.</p>
<p>The old soul theme seems to be prevalent among these kids! I have always used “45 at birth” to describe both my daughters. They had more maturity in elementary school than I ever hope to possess.</p>
<p>Older D – Always sees cup half full.
Younger D – Leans toward seeing the cup half empty.</p>
<p>Younger D – The very definition of “tunnel vision”. Sticks her head in a tunnel, barreling toward whatever new goal she has set for herself, seeing nothing on the periphery (including socializing, laundry, eating meals etc.)</p>
<p>Curm – I’ve always said you don’t raise kids like this. You grab onto their shirttail and just try to hang on for the ride!</p>
<p>This reminds me of the “Six Word Memoir” book. Try to sum up your life in six words. Someone tried to start a thread about it one time but mislabeled the title and it died a quick death. I will start a new one for the CC parents who have lived enough of a life to actually have some material to work with to compose a memoir!</p>
<p>S1 is kind, perceptive, brilliant, non-conforming, and a socialist; destined to be a physicist doing groundbreaking research or the smartest appliance repairman ever.</p>
<p>S2 described himself perfectly a couple of years ago, at the age of 6 or 7: “Mom, I’m on full happy!”</p>
<p>Guess which one is giving me gray hair?</p>
<p>S1 - Looks for only the good in everything and everyone and almost always finds it</p>
<p>S2 - Demands nothing less than excellence from everything and everyone, but most of all himself</p>
<p>I can’t use the language I need to describe my son here on CC without being sanctioned. Let’s just say the ringtone on my phone for him is “Back When I Knew It All”.</p>
<p>Daughter (Postulant to the Episcopal Priesthood)- Tucks her head and succeeds at most everything she does, adored by all, but I have been known to refer to her as “Reverend B–tch”.</p>