Totally understand the concern with 5 APs junior year @eandesmom
Wow @eh1234 I canāt believe your sonās school just finished yesterday! My D17 has already across the country at her summer job since Tuesday! And that was after a family vacation down the west coast from Seattle to San Fran. And my D19 is already driving me crazy with the not-doing-anything-all-day schtick. 
@eandesmom It sounds like your D19 has a lot of activities this summer (and I count visiting cousins as an activity). That is fantastic ā seems like he likes to keep busy.
I am totally serious: My D19 literally told me that her plan for the next two weeks is to watch as much of the Game Of Thrones series as humanly possible (she turns 16 soon and Iād told her a couple years ago that she couldnāt watch it until she was 16). From Thursday to today she already finished the first season, AND thatās with a long day culminating with a sleepover here with one of her besties yesterday/this morning. She finished the first season at around 4:30, we went out for Chinese in Westwood, and I heard her fire up the big TV about half an hour ago for season 2!!!
THREAD TITLE RELATED QUESTION! Can a student put āwatched entire series to date of Game of Thrones in one summerā on her college application? Because so far that seems to be her EC.
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@JenJenJen If it makes you feel better, I can think of several times when S19 watched an entire season of a show over the course of two weeknights during the school year. āIāll do my homework after I finish this show. I only have three more episodesā were actual words that came out of his mouth. Thatās not really going to fly next year!
We watched Gremlins yesterday. My d22 declared it āthe best 80ās movieā.
I like to spend time on school breaks forcing them to watch 80ās movies. Maybe that will make a good EC?
@mom2twogirls Gremlins 2 is very funny, has your D22 seen that one yet?
@JenJenJenJen, my D17 has made it her summer goal, after discovering it right at the end of her school year in May, to listen to every episode of the Maximum Fun podcast āThe Adventure Zoneā before she heads off to collegeāso at least it seems that your D19 isnāt alone in her beliefs about what counts as an, um, useful summertime activity.
Thanks, @eh1234 and @dfbdfb ā you know what? I do feel better. Even though I can hear the sounds of John Snow arguing with Sam Tarly about a āwildingā through my closed bedroom door.
@JenJenJenJen no, Gremlins was on Netflix. I donāt think Gremlins 2 is.
Donāt worry about children watching TV or movies. DS 16 used his TV and movie choices in his college essays and was admitted into very competitive Honors programs because of it.
@carolinamom2boys Oh, my spouse and I would be the biggest hypocrites in the world if we worried about having our daughters watch television.
But watching an entire season of GoT in 2.25 days seems a bit excessive when itās so beautiful outside! 8-|
I walked upstairs yesterday at 6:30 AM to turn off the AC and open windows (weather is very nice) and D21 was still up watching Netflix. Had not want to bed yetā¦sighā¦teenagers.
@carolinamom2boys sigh. He really does NOT want to make any schedule changes and says if anything, heād change out of AP Physics 1 to something else. The AP Physics teacher retired this year and he doesnāt care for the likely replacement at all. However there really isnāt a great alternative. He could take AP Chem or Bio but had honors both already so isnāt all that interested plus AP Chem is at a different HS which would be a pain. That leaves APES. Which is arguably easier but likely less interesting to him and doesnāt fulfill a lab or a science credit unless they changed things (which he thinks they may have).
@JenJenJenJen he doesā¦for some of it. However since school got out on Friday his rear end has been glued to the chair in his room and all he has done is download new games. Other than seeing wonder woman friday night and going to Costco today for new glasses. LOL!
In his āfreeā time he is watching press releases on said new games and consoles.
My d19 was all excited the other day because there was a new Disney haul video up. Because people seriously go to the Disney wharehouse stores at the outlets in Florida and vlog about their deals.
I would laugh more except people also vlog about all the things they eat as they are in the parks and I might watch and drool along as my d19 plays them.
I feel so much better about my kids when I read yāallās complaints - mine are exactly the same! I get up at 4:15 am for work, and so my morning is very tightly regimented, as nobody is coherent at that hour. I make the coffee and the lunch the night before, shower the night before, pack everything except my phone, etc etc. Today I got up and the recessed lights in the kitchen were on, which is never a good sign, as Iām adamant about turning them off (expensive bulbs to replace), and MY LUNCH WAS GONE. Crumbs and ziploc bags in the garbage. I am beyond livid. Obv. one of the kids was up all night and had a snack attack.
So far this summer they have done almost nothing - I give them chores, like the dishes, garbage, some light yardwork, and they do do it - but if I didnāt do that, and if we didnāt drag them out on weekends, their summer so far would be a 24/7 video-watching marathon.
ETA - One of my major parenting goals has been to introduce my kids to the best 80s movies also. āHeathersā is one of the faves so far. But many others.
Itās so hard to keep them away from electronics now. Our D21 is at ballet in the summer from 8:30-4:30 so at least, during that time, I know sheās busy doing something else. S19 goes to XC from about 6:30-9:00, then comes home and showers and is on his phone until we leave for drivers ed at 11:30. Drivers ed is over at 2:00 and then I hope each day that his friends get together to play disc golf or real golf (disc golf is free and our local par 3 golf course is only $7 to play!) or go to the pool. Most of the time heās home in the afternoon, itās back on the phone. 
Iām home for the most part so Iāve been trying to keep an eye on it. Luckily, S19 needs to study for the SAT so I always throw that at him if I see him lounging on the couch with his phone. If he studies for 60-90 minutes, then Iām ok with a little electronic downtime after that. If he has a huge chunk of afternoon time free, I insist that he do a little of his reading for AP Lang or Iāll even drag him on errands with me. Itās a constant battle.
I have all the summer reading books and we are driving to Yellowstone - thatās 42 hours each way (I know, because weāve driven it nonstop before) ā¦ Iām banking on a lot of reading then.
Please keep the This.Is.What.My.19er.Does posts coming. They make me feel better as I realize I am not alone.
D19 finished school on Friday. She slept until 1 PM on Saturday (!) and spent most of the day yesterday snoozing. This morning I left for work at 7:15 AM, so I am hoping she made it to behind the wheel class on time today (started at 10 am).
So the positive today was she was up and mostly ready for work/class this morning. I say mostly because we should have left a few minutes earlier but she had to find her glasses and I never thought we would get out of the driveway. Dropped her off at 7:15 and will pick her up at 2. Not much different than a school day. However, lest you think this means we have it all togetherā¦
Since she is swimming and has a break between work and class, she can shower and wash her hair. I told her to put the shampoo into a gallon zip lock so it wouldnāt make a mess in the bag. We always do this. For some reason, she thought I meant to squeeze some shampoo out of the bottle and into the ziplock. Why would I do that? Weāve never done that. Weāve always put the container within the bag just to make sure if the cap opens, everything near it isnāt covered in goop.
Anyway, the first day of work/class should be the roughest and we should have a routine figured out soon. I hope.
My D19 is in the closing days of the first semester of online Latin 2. Our district summer school makes you cover one semester in 17 calendar days (and for session 2 you only get 15 calendar days). Then on July 2 she goes to a 2 week residential speech & debate camp. She comes back on July 16. Thatās too late for her to take the second semester of Latin 2 with our school districtās online summer school, but Iāve figured out that she can take the identical course from Florida Virtual School. Itās more expensive because as a non-Florida resident she has to pay $400 for a semester class (vs $185 if she took it from our district). But you can start it on a rolling schedule and proceed at your own pace as long as you finish in 27 weeks. Sheāll start that on 7/17 and we hope to have her do the majority of it before school starts on 8/7. But it will be nice not to have the pressure of having to do it in 15 days. It was a big relief to find the FLVS option and to realize itās the IDENTICAL class. It turns out that our district gets the Latin curriculum from FLVS.