<p>I have given myself anxiety- many times bygetting worked up before I know all the details.
Like when teh grades that are posted online for D aren’t updated, and so it looks like she hasn’t passed or handed in the last 4 assignments.</p>
<p>Or like last night- when she was at a high school dance till midnight- and her dad and I went to pick her up and we saw innummerable police cars- with lights blocking access to the school on all sides. I about had a stroke
BUt as we drove around the building trying to see where we could find the kids- we realized that the cops were just standing around- it didn’t look like an active scene- they were there to prevent something- not because of something that had happend
Thank goodness for cell phones- she called me to see if I was there- and I told her that I couldn’t get close because of all the police cars- she didn’t even know they were there!
So I certainly am getting lots of practice in, not rushing to conclusions until I have more facts.</p>
<p>This mom stuff is hard. My S is much better but I vividly remember those days of ? or O’s on the grade report. I don’t think that much else got my dander up more than not handing in or completing an assignment.</p>
<p>EK, I had a panicky situation that elevated my blood pressure one day last week. Youngest S had walked to the neighborhood pool and when it was way past the time for him to be home, I called his cell phone and got the recording. I jumped in the car, headed to the pool, and when he wasn’t there I freaked.</p>
<p>Abduction was heavy on my mind by this time but I headed back to the house, checked his room, and there he was SLEEPING.</p>
<p>And then the husband asks, “What did YOU do all day???”</p>
<p>Abduction was heavy on my mind by this time but I headed back to the house, checked his room, and there he was SLEEPING.</p>
<p>when my younger daughter was about 6- she was a “real pistol”
she would run out of the dressing room when I was changing- one day she got mad at me and ran out of the house and I was only half dressed- I just stopped long enough to put a pair of pants on- ran out of the house and she was nowhere to be seen.
I didn’t think she would go far- but I went around the block calling her name. Increasingly worried I thought perhaps she went the opposite way from where I was looking, so I went back to the house and got into the car ( we had a big van) after I drove about a block- she popped up from behind the seats.
OMG
heart attack</p>
<p>I always said I was not going to be one of those blind parents who think their child would never do anything wrong. Well one time when my oldest was starting high school, he had a party. The next day as I was cleaning the rec room, I found a little glass jug shaped container with white granular stuff in it. I freaked out, called a friend to come over and since that is what they do on tv–we put some of this stuff on our tongues. The conclusion was that it was gritty, but no taste…but hey, we didn’t know what it was supposed to taste like. When my son came home, I presented this glass thing to him and said “Do you know what this is?”. His reply, “Sure it is one of those souvenir vials of beach sand M. (D.) got in the islands last summer”. </p>
<p>I have never lived down taste testing beach sand !</p>
<p>I have learned that when my D (when she was younger) would say things like</p>
<p>“The teacher HATES me, she NEVER calls on me, she ALWAYS yells at me, and me alone”- and I would get caught up in the drama to protect my lion cub, I would call another parent, and ask what their child thought of the teacher, and they would say, my D says she hates her, never calls on her and calls on your D all the time!!!</p>
<p>It was really funny- always and never are the watch words for parents of grammer school kids</p>
<p>When my oldest was in pre-school, she came home and told me that there was a fire at the school that day. When I talked with the teacher and ask about the fire, she said, “What fire?” When she saw my puzzled look, she said, “Don’t worry–I don’t believe half the things your daughter tells me goes on at home.”</p>
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