I find the email antipathy odd. What is the big deal? I get the phone thing (I hate the phone myself). But I love email–it saves me from having to call! Anyone who has a kid interested in medicine/nursing/health care, let them know–we spend much of our time calling people! (Although email is coming.)
Ugh. Kids and phones. The verification request had an option to call to speak to an actual human, and my son has refused. He promised that if this next email of “proof” doesn’t cut it, he will call but so far he has refused and had not allowed me to call either.
DS missed the time change of a college midterm because he wasn’t checking his email.
It was a wake up call when it happened but, he has reverted to his old ways & rarely checks without a prompt- very frustrating!
Someone needs to create a computer program that will freeze all of their other activity until they check their mail once a day!
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Welcome @mom23travelers ! D16 was afraid too much attention would be on her when D13 went to college. When it gets to be too much, she goes and hides in her room lol!
Welcome @mom23travelers ! I have a D18 that also fears that all college/SAT/ACT/scholarship efforts will be transferred to her when S16 leaves.
@mom23travelers I can totally relate to your S19. I have a S15 who is on a gap year and will be attending school in hte fall. A D16 who will be gone come September. And her. LOL.We joke that she’s going to need therapy by the time October rolls around.
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I lived in NY until I got married then moved down south to Florida. I do not miss the cold weather one bit! It’s 60 today and I’m cold. My D16 wants to go somewhere colder so I’ll be quite sad when she leaves.
My D16 had 2 phone interviews this week so she is quickly learning how to talk on the phone. She has 2 more upcoming so soon she will be a pro. Now if I can just get her to call her grandparents…
So I’m guessing most of you don’t want to hear that it is so cold in Hawaii today I decided wear a long sleeve shirt instead of a short sleeve shirt? 
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@LKnomad for what it is worth given what is going on with your son and the verification process I would stick with his inclination to have everything in writing when dealing with the situation. You never know what sort of “evidence” you might need to provide should this process continue.
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Freezing and icy here today, but it has been a relatively mild NE winter, so it could be a lot worse. Like @sseamom the thought of visiting one of D16’s warm(er) weather schools again is very appealing at the moment (-;
DD is fine with email and uses the phone to call her Grandmother, aunts, uncles, etc. Now, try to get her to call a friend instead of texting and you get a look like you suggested something entirely alien and quite possibly illegal or impossible. She also seems to only be able to reply in monosyllabic answers when called by a parental unit, which is very much in contrast to her non-stop responses when talking in person.
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So happy to hear I am not the only one with a kid who doesn’t take care of her emails!It has caused a lot of arguments in our house. One day this is going to bite her in the butt BIG TIME!
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D doesn’t check email, either. I insist she use mine for anything official. S checks his, in that it comes directly o his phone, which is his preferred way of interacting with anything but his girlfriend (and sometimes her as well).
First round of FAFSA finally done. Will have to update, but essentially…done. Thank all the angels.
Does anybody know about the box you can tick that says “register me” (for the Selective Service)? Is there anything else he’ll have to do now when he turns eighteen in a couple of months?
Welcome @mom23travelers ! D isn’t thrilled dealing with email, but she syncs it up to her phone so she knows what is is in case a reply is needed. That has solved the problem of my pestering her. She’s much better about calling professionals or people associated with her school projects than her friends-the opposite of some of your kids.Her friends though, make her call when on a project as they don’t like to call anyone for anything. She’s been known to dial a number and just hand the phone to a work partner. I don’t think they like that much, lol.
Speaking of emails D emailed her top choice school yesterday to ask about their “check status” portal being down, and got this response, “Dear SseaKid, Thank you for your email. Our portal is down because we are updating it with new admissions. We are currently in the process of mailing out acceptance letters. You should be receiving your letter soon.”
That sounds like she is admitted, yes? Otherwise they’d have said, “We’re mailing acceptance and rejection letters…” right? Crossing fingers here.
Thanks all for the welcome. I’ve been lurking on CC since last year when I found the site just a little too late to be helpful for D15 but early enough to totally stress me out about her chances at the competitive places she had applied.
D16 decided to apply only 2 places and she already has acceptances to both and they are both affordable for us. Hooray! This is a much more comfortable place to be sitting than last year which was nail biting down to the end of March.
@petrichor11, I would make sure and check that he was indeed registered with selective service around his 18 th birthday.
Re: phone use by teenagers… I had D18 call to order a pizza last week because I was driving. She said that she dialed and was getting weird beeping noises. I thought that maybe she had called a fax number, but it turns out that it was a busy signal! She had NEVER heard one before…didn’t know what it was and didn’t know what to do. She thought if she stayed on the line that it would eventually ring.
@crowlady Yay! Congrats to your S! <:-P Welcome @mom23travelers Congrats to your D, it’s so nice to know
Got a call from D16’s AP Euro teacher (who was also her AP World History teacher 2 years ago) earlier today wanting to know if everything was alright with D16. She had worn a sleeveless shirt with a cardigan and capri length leggings to school yesterday and took off her sweater and had multiple bruises on her arms and legs.
UUUMMM yeah… she had a 7 v 7 lacrosse tournament this past weekend, she played goalie and they played against 1 adult team and 1 collegiate team that creamed them. Goalie gear doesn’t cover the lower leg and space between mid forearm and shoulder. She was so sore on Sunday she didn’t move beyond the sofa and warm bath tub for Epsom salt bath. I keep telling her to use Arnica for the bruises, but she seems to feel they are a badge of honor, lol.
D16 just came in the door from school and said “Hey, Mr K asked me if everything was alright today and I was like yeah why? He asked about the bruises on my arms. I laughed and told him yeah playing LAX goalie is a b***h sometimes. He said he called you and that was the story he got too!”
@labegg I’ve used arnica on bruises too. It really works! I always get mystery bruises.
@labegg - that’s awesome that her teacher followed up like that! We don’t like to think about it, but there is dating violence among teens and sometimes teachers are the first to see signs. (A few years back we were supposed to report to parents when girls would have “Property of John” or similar written on their skin, because it was apparently a fad for mean boyfriends to require that.)