<p>Well, gosh. I don’t remember giving all that info. It’s o.k., though . I’ve left that and more here many times. I’ll see if I can sneak a peek later today.</p>
<p>I stopped at Barnes and Noble on my way to work today and looked through THE book. To everyone that has purchased the book, I did not say my son was looking at Caltech and MIT, he was looking at RIT and Drexel. Please take your red pencils and make the corrections. Goodness, anyone that knows my son would think I was fibbing if I said MIT and Caltech. We didn’t even look at any schools in California. Cute book and I think it will help with the anxiety levels of some parents.</p>
<p>What page, kathiep?</p>
<p>We had a couple editing missteps, too but I can live with them. They don’t change the points I was trying to make and that’s why I agreed to the interview - to make those points. I do wish the bigger of the quotes had been written by me instead of them, but oh, well. </p>
<p>All in all I thought she presented some ideas that heretofore had gone unsaid and unprinted (except of course on here ;)). </p>
<p>And , hey! Some of our folks virtually wrote the book. LOL.</p>
<p>By the way, I was kidding (in post #38) about any page being about things “not” to do/say to your kids. the author (well, the editor really-- I think WE are the authors) tried to stay really positive. Oh, and I found your misquote, Kathiep. Duly noted in my book.</p>
<p>I liked the story by J.M. in Reno, NV, who talked about the fact that her son did not want to share any part of what he was doing as far as his essays or completed applications. The frustrated mom ended up going into her son’s room when he was out of town for a weekend and found his essay, entitled “My Mother is Crazy!” It turned out to be a total set up and she realized that she needed to back off in his case!</p>
<p>^^^hahaha LOL roshke! I have to confess I’ve only flipped through the book - haven’r read it all. I showed that quote to my s and he said he actually thought of something similar (since I’ve been wanting to proof his essays for typos and such). Did you happen to notice that there are 4 different people with the initials JM in that book? (you probably wouldnt pay attention to that, but for obvious reasons it caught my eye).</p>
<p>The frustrated mom ended up going into her son’s room when he was out of town for a weekend and found his essay, entitled “My Mother is Crazy!” </p>
<p>TOO funny.
Reminds me of when we took our son now at Duke to an ecumenical church human sexuality family retreat aimed at teens. Letters were written from parents to students on various “values” topics. We worked pretty hard on our letter to son. Other parents were getting misty eyed reading the thoughtful response letters from their sons or daughters at the end of the day. I opened our letter from our kid quietly and read:
“Dear Mom and Dad:<br>
Thank you so much for signing me up for this interesting workshop on human sexuality and values.<br>
NOT!!!
Your son,
elmo”
…his name is not really elmo but that was the ENTIRE letter he wrote.
We went home and pretty much never mentioned the retreat again.</p>
<p>Thanks for telling me it was out. I was also interviewed for it. I was planning on going to the bookstore anyway.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all you literary stars. I feel like I’m sitting around a table at the Algonquin.</p>
<p>Faline: I’m with Elmo. But I am bad a group activities.</p>