<p>There is something very wrong with my younger son (a.k.a. Class of 2014). Tonight, I walked into his room and asked if he had finished his homework so he could go to bed. He said that he had but wanted to stay up a little longer to “read ahead in my earth science textbook.”</p>
<p>The boy is definitely ill. Seriously ill.</p>
<p>But whatever has gotten into him (it might be some maturity), it is a disease I can live with.</p>
<p>S1 went to the first football practice. He played Pop Warner for 5 years. The first practice is supposed to be on sunny afternoon in early august. A lot of nice people I have not seen since last year. Little kids watching big brothers, blankets, hotdogs, dogs. “Hi, how are you”, " Long time no see", “How is your summer?” etc.
Today I dropped him off on the way to work, did not say a word to anybody because I do not know a soul.
It feels soooo wrong.</p>
<p>momreads, congrats. I wish my kids caught that sickness.</p>
<p>^^
Know what you mean—
the parent involvement from elem to middle school etc (and various sports) drops alot
and then by hs --its all them/teachers/coach and very little of the parents.</p>
<p>Feels odd and frankly with one sr and one frosh–I still really dont know many parents/families of our sr. The kids have their own social life and there aren’t those family get togethers lke when they were little nor do parents really get to know eachother much.
In our case we have met many parents of kiddo’s teammates–though the “competitive nature” and “promotion” by some parents makes it not very nice and we have pulled back a bit because it was too uncomfortable. Makes me want to shake the parents and ask why they are acting like they are in highschool! kwim?</p>
<p>So far kiddo2 is liking the schedule and seems to be getting the hw done.</p>
<p>fogdog-both my boys have similar schedules and I feel like I didn’t see them at all this week. S1 had a home game that last until 9pm and another night S2 actually had an away game (60 minutes) so that completely took up one whole night. I know they felt like they didn’t have time for anything else fun and both had homework every day. School started Wed. and I keep telling myself, it is just temp. and they don’t play a hardcore sport every season.</p>
<p>I think we will adjust. We told them to save 4:30 - 6pm for a family dinner out tonight (Sat.) so we can have some family time. They can have the rest of the day.</p>
<p>Anyone seen Toy Story 3 yet?
In our area -this is the last week in the theaters (few still have it)</p>
<p>FogFog: The closest movie theater is about 20 miles from my house. So, no. … Meanwhile, Son2 spent most of the weekend off and on working on homework. (Welcome to high school.) This week, he has his first varsity cross country meet. He’s very pumped.</p>
<p>I want to wait until I can see Toy Story III at home. I’d heard too much and know that I would sob too much to be in public.</p>
<p>Anyone having “drama” at home about where the responsibilities and boundaries are??</p>
<p>Our teen is enjoying hs life …
…and “oops”, forgot about hw for class this am…
;o(</p>
<p>My '14 better not start giving me drama, because the '11 is going to be hard enough to live with this year!</p>
<p>S got his schedule. He didn’t get the bio teacher who gives hours and hours of homework. Yes!</p>
<p>Well, we have open house tonight. DD will get her locker assignment, take her school yearbook and ID photo, and pick up her final class schedule for next week. I’m kind of ****ed because the kids can’t use wheeled backpacks this year, but must tote back & forth 50lbs of books & binders–sheesh.</p>
<p>At least the school allows the students to bring in the “required” school stuff tonight so kiddos can organize and fill their lockers before the 1st day of school.</p>
<p>Next week, school begins & doesn’t get out until 3:50. Dd has competition dance/technique classes 4 days a week from 5:30-9:30. We’ll see how DD handles this, because I’m afraid to tell her she may have move down to a lower level competition group that has classes only 3 days a week, including Saturday, sigh. DD has danced since age 3 & does well nationally.</p>
<p>She does have to do HW, eat & sleep sometime during her 24 hour day.</p>
<p>Schedules arrived today… well first block class assignment, not even the teacher mentioned. Poor guy has PE. They work on a even/odd schedule with the exception of first block which is every day.</p>
<p>Our kids have 8 periods a day- and an open period the beginning of the day where the teachers have office hrs.
So its a long day–at school by 7:40 or so, and classes are out close to 4…
sports run til 6:30
and then transportation home, shower, dinner, THEN hw…its easily a 14-15 hr day </p>
<p>My big concern is sleep…when the kids are going to bed by 11 and up at 6…exactly how can these teens get the 10-12 hrs sleep that is “recommended”
kwim</p>
<p>So far kiddo likes the teachers and I think the hw is getting done.</p>
<p>@fogfog</p>
<p>It gets to the point where I had to go to sleep at 1AM because of sports/EC’s and AP classes by sophomore year, and then had to wake up at 6AM.</p>
<p>Its not for everyone, but one of my friends smartly said that you can only have 2 of the following 3: Good grades in hard classes, a social life, and sleep.</p>
<p>Good luck! But seriously 7 hours, while it may seem like a little amount of sleep, is not that bad if its only for 2-3 days a week. For instance in college many students go to sleep at 3AM, but I’m not advocating that that is a smart idea. =P</p>
<p>My son was beat yesterday. He ran a cross country meet in temperatures that hovered the 100-degree mark. When he got home, he did most of his homework, but I told him to go to bed at 11 p.m. He planned to finish this morning in my classroom but fell asleep. He came back, with his lunch, during lunch time to do the rest. He said he is looking forward to the weekend. He wants to sleep.</p>
<p>It varies from day to day, but 5am wake up, school is out at 2 but EC goes 2x/week until 5/6pm, once until 9/10pm, Sat 7am-noon/4pm, and Sunday as needed. Homework falls in the hours after 6pm or 10pm depending on the day. The even/odd schedule works to benefit here. They can load their hw on the early nights…IF they plan well. What they can’t do is dump all long term assignments to the weekend. There just isn’t enough time. Generally a 11/12pm bedtime is doable until AP classes kick in.</p>
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<p>nope–actually this sport practices 6 days a week…
so every night except Sunday is a late one…</p>
<p>More interesting is this schedule is heavier than many of the teachers who go home at 4p ;o)</p>
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<p>There seems to be a pattern for all but the most committed dancers. My older D started freshman year doing school dance (JV drill team) plus a full competition team schedule…she’d be starting her homework at 9:45 or so every night.</p>
<p>Sophomore year, varsity drill team, plus went down to only two competitive styles of dance, plus technique.</p>
<p>Junior year, varsity drill team, no outside competition team, just technique.</p>
<p>Senior year, varsity drill team officer, no outside dance at all.</p>
<p>I tell freshman dance moms that their Ds will likely cut back on outside dance and they never want to hear that.</p>
<p>FYI</p>
<p>It can be helpful if you open a word doc–and start a running list for a resume…so that come Jr yr you haven’t forgotten whats what for college apps…</p>
<p>Another parent of 2 college grads suggested that to me when my kids were in elem/middle school–
and when each has hit hs–I started one for each of them…</p>
<p>while kiddo2 has awhile to go, it has been helpful for kiddo1–as it was already done when kiddo 1’s GC asked for a resume to be done (spring jr yr)</p>