<p>Just saying hi-too much to catch up on to address specifically.</p>
<p>My son is home sick today although his little sister told me before she left for school he should have gone in-maybe I should give her my job! :)</p>
<p>rom828 - great idea, I am giving up complaining too. </p>
<p>missy - no tee shirts for AP classes at my S’s school. Sounds like fun though. I love the Chuck Norris tee!</p>
<p>Avon - I did give up shoveling snow for Lent, I am praying the snow stays in Ohio. We just saw our grass for the first time since xmas…NO more snow. </p>
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S got a letter from one of the local scholarship competitions yesterday. While he didn’t win the top county scholar award, he did win for his HS and will receive a small award and recognition at the senior awards night in May./
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<p>Congrats to your S. Sorry he didn’t win the top award, but still quite the honor. </p>
<p>One small class of 2018 brag. My 11yo D just got accepted to the Dana Hall school. It is an incredible all girl school that she is in love with. Of course, her attending depends on how much we have left over after paying for college. Keep the money coming!</p>
<p>momdoc: I love “Putting the STUD back in STUDy.” </p>
<p>I have to laugh at the thought of AP shirts because the quantity would be so few in some instances here. Our son is in IB Physics with ONE other student. The class is combined with AP Physics for a total of eight students!</p>
<p>I love the Math Club shirts this year. They spell out MATHLETE with a formula or equation for each letter. On the back it says, IN BINARY, “If you can read this, give me a hug.” (Guess I’ll have to post that picture on the shutterfly site when I finally getting around to figuring that out.) It’s what our son wrote about in his MIT Mid-Year update since he designed it.</p>
<p>Avon Dad: So sorry about the snow. We have a glimpse of Midwestern spring here today and I almost felt guilty ready your post.</p>
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<p>Funny you mention that as I was typing my post I had a passing thought about hurricanes, brush fires and earthquakes for those of you outside of the snow belt.</p>
<p>Relentless rain. I have a lake at the end of my driveway because when the snow/icepack melted couple days ago, the leaves that were right there underneath (because they didn’t pick up the leaves in time before the first snow) got lodged around and on top of the street drain. Lovely. I will call it my new water feature.</p>
<p>After mailing IDOC March 1, they finally had it posted to son’s status as complete as of March 9. I emailed all the Fin Aid depts of schools who requested it and told them it was available and apologized for delay (due March 1). All assured me it was NOT a problem. Hope that relieves some of you. Amen!!</p>
<p>AP English shirt from last year: Front - “AP English” with “A” in “Scarlet Letter” style. Back - “Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school” (from “Catch 22”).</p>
<p>AP Euro shirt: student genuflecting to Palmer (author of the text: “A History of the Modern World”.)
AP US shirt: JFK in a red circle with a line throught it with the words: “You’re no Jack Kennedy!”
AP Calc and Physics: appropriate equations (not too creative, lol)</p>
<p>Shirts are big at our HS. Fun, but expensive and now they sit in the crowded closet with all the other HS shirts (every sport state event, “fan” shirts for their friends’ sports, own sport shirts, and OF COURSE about three 2015 items for fundraising and sentimental reasons).</p>
<p>D has started wearing her 5th grade class t-shirt. It is an adult small so it still fits. And it’s fun to read the names of all the kids she was in elem school with.</p>
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<p>Thanks.
I mailed the IDOC 2 days ago and worried whether it would be scanned in time. Also noted that the FAFSA filed by 2/15 shows processed 2/16… Hope all is well. Mailed the U a copied of the corrected PROFILE today - sent priority with signature confirmation…
Corrected FAFSA last night so it now is “completed taxes” as opposed to will file status…</p>
<p>So what do we have to give up for Lent, or add, to help with FinAid…haha</p>
<p>No AP shirts last year, so I dont know if any will be done this year.
Frankly, our student had 30-40 T shirts in the closet that are not worn any longer…the favs are in the dresser </p>
<p>Have a “sensitive” question…</p>
<p>Do you think parents of “fast” teens realize their kids are so “socially” active?<br>
During a recent conversation at home I mentioned meeting a parent and the reaction of a student’s mom at a parent lunch, and my student quite honestly said XYZ is a s__t! Evidently the girl has quite a poor rep.<br>
So do you think the mom/parents know?
The mom is attractive, well dressed,successful and quite outspoken.</p>
<p>When our kids finish at the elementary school they all get t-shirts that say the name of the HS (we only have one in our district) class of 2011 with a big picture of the mascot. On the back it has the elementary school name and the names of all the kids (all 50 of them) in that years fifth grade class. I was smart enough to order an extra shirt in a men’s medium, thinking it might be fun to wear in HS.</p>
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I think they think all kids are like their kid, that it is normal and what can they do about it. OTOH, I sometimes reputations are not always deserved and spread from one mean comment. Who is going to tell them they little girl is a slut? So, no I don’t expect they realize their child has a bad rep.</p>
<p>I do expect some poor behavior from my S. We haven’t “caught” him drinking yet, but I expect he has. If he had a long time GF I would probably expect something going on there also.</p>
<p>We now are proud hosts of TWO Japanese girls! A friend of our AFS student has arrived for a visit (her father is a pilot, so she can fly cheaply). Back to hand signals and talking very carefully for us! Japanese D says she worries she has forgotten how to speak Japanese - I guess she’s passed over in to thinking in English.</p>
<p>HS is kindly allowing our girl to take tomorrow off so we can show her friend around the area. Her first comment when I picked her up from the airport bus: “It’s so LARGE here!” </p>
<p>No college news at our house. D is sleepwalking - so many rehearsals, late nights, etc. this week. I said to her yesterday that I hoped it wasn’t a hard week academically … I am SO glad it is second semester and grades aren’t subject to the fine-toothed-comb test any more.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone having the nice rewards of the end of HS. And my sympathies with those where things aren’t going so well. We’ve been there both ways, and will continue. 7 letters yet to come - and a good chance all 7 will be nos.</p>
<p>Maybe D will be so tired she won’t remember these next couple of weeks - she was in an intense performance schedule during EA notifications and didn’t even remember opening some of those letters. Not a bad method, really.</p>
<p>Pepper sorry your son is sick–“get well quickly” wishes to him</p>
<p>D1 is not a Tshirt girl nowadays–but a few years ago she had a good one “Do not lead me into temptation–especially bookstores” very appropriate for her</p>
<p>mamom congrats to your daughter on the school</p>
<p>325 and FMM: I was a COBOL programmer back in the 80s and even did a little Assembler programming. I remember black and white monitors, stacks of print-outs and huge mainframe computers. Our company had a cool IBM product called PROFS(?) that was the precursor to e-mail.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the kids getting recoginized with local scholarships and school awards.</p>
<p>Mamom: Congrats to your daughter on her acceptance. I hope the $$ work out for you.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t do AP t-shirts. I’m surprised the kids haven’t thought of it, since they seem to order or make t-shirts for everything else. They sound like a lot of fun.</p>
<p>momjr - I was an earlier user of Profs at work and Prodigy at home. Even was in groups like ours for adoptive moms as I tried that route before I got married and had a child the old-fashioned way.</p>
<p>fogfog - I know MANY parents are totally oblivious to their angel’s behavior whether it involves sex, drugs or drinking.</p>
<p>“Do you think parents of ‘fast’ teens realize their kids are so ‘socially’ active?”</p>
<p>Of course, these are highly subjective categories, and are even now applied almost entirely to young women. My definition of these categories may be lax from the viewpoint of many participants in this blog. With that caveat, I do think most parents in many socioeconomic groups realize this about their own children, and acquiesce in, or even promote, it because (1) it translates to them as “popularity,” which they for some reason see as the sole standard for “success;” and/or (2) they simply cannot be bothered. I think this is tragic, because there is a self-image question this raises about the individual teenager that is troubling, and the potential for lasting harm is huge.</p>
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<p>Mother of boys vent here.</p>
<p>For the Cotillion for Achievement Ball, we have to create a 20 x 30 poster about our child–like a huge scrapbook page. I am not a scrapbooker, in fact I am remedial in anything that requires artistic detail. So a friend who is an awesome scrapbooker is going to “help” me. I edited her art history paper last semester and she got an “A.” She owes me.</p>
<p>Anyway, I went to two craft stores today looking for boyish paper that would be appropriate. I saw cute elementary school stuff, graduation stuff, every sport every played, and lost of musical themes. Where’s the love for geeky math and science boys in the scrapbooking world?</p>
<p>Oh, and his name requires four “R’s” No package of stick-on letters comes with four “R’s”. </p>
<p>It reminded me of drying to find dress clothes for the boys when they were in middle school. Dozens of racks of dress; one half a rack of dress pants with maybe a sport coat thrown in.</p>
<p>fogfog- I think some parents realize what is going on and don’t care, others care but seem unable to control the situation, and others are oblivious. The issue for me is sometimes when and if it is appropriate to bring information to other parent’s attention. I know that I would definitely want the info,but others may not feel the same way.
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A long time friend of my d’s has developed an alcohol problem. I have been struggling with whether or not to tell her parents. I am pretty certain they are aware of it (her biological mother was an alcoholic who died in a car crash!), so don’t want to appear to be a busybody by telling them something they may already know. What I think they might not be aware of is that my dh ( a licensed clinical social worker) is pretty certain that this girl is bipolar and is self medicating with alcohol. So difficult to know what to do…</p>