<p>On my email it reverts to bold also. ;)</p>
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<p>I am torn between saying that a) I’ll charge a mere $350 an hour, and b) I offer a premiere service for a comprehensive fee of $5000 that comes with a custom hand-knit blanket and connections to the pediatrician of your choice.</p>
<p>This could be a new service offered by doulas, delivery and APGAR improvement!<br>
And Slithey, I don’t know about the pediatrician, but if you can get juniorWord into a premiere preschool, I might be a buyer!</p>
<p>I just ordered a copy, best price I found was on ebay ($14, free shipping), link if anyone else would like it: [The</a> Neurotic Parent’s Guide to College Admissions: Strategies for Helicoptering, (9780983459415) | eBay](<a href=“http://www.ebay.com/itm/280842414639]The”>http://www.ebay.com/itm/280842414639)</p>
<p>I’m reading it now and it is really funny so far.
Just read the section on College Confidential. Regular posters like Sligh_Anarchist and a few others appear in reference to a thread about a kid who listed “clam fart” as an EC on his Yale application. I 'm going to finish the book and then pass it on to my SIL who has a 10th grader and will be going through all the college application stuff soon(of course though they’re already thinking about and visiting campuses in true CC fashion). Good job, neurotic parent!</p>
<p>Compmom–really? Hmm, I dunno, I think that pricey tutors are not the way to go. Self-study worked fine for us. if your kid really isn’t motivated, it’s just money down the drain. And then what happens when they’re on their own? Like, in nursery school–is all that Apgar tutoring going to help then, or will you end up paying for a waiting-your-turn tutor, a blocks tutor, etc etc. I mean, where does it end???</p>
<p>SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!</p>
<p>But sure, do what you think is best…</p>
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<p>Even if the more discerning, and may I say, discriminating CCers know this is misguided at best. What’s next? Taking up the digideroo just to impress the ad coms (like the triplets right?)</p>
<p>I think I’ve just discovered a wonderful baby shower gift!
Perhaps with a small plastic helicopter enclosed?</p>
<p>oh, kinderny, where would you get an idea like that…?</p>
<p>Love this thread.</p>
<p>If you haven’t read the “clam fart” thread you need to search for it here on cc. It’s hilarious!!! I need to get this book!</p>
<p>I am questioning the validity of D’s APGARs. She rec’d a 9 on the 1st sitting, a 10 on the second. She also had the cord wrapped twice, needed oxygen and was born with congenital defects and no hip. Do you think this hospital practices APGAR inflation?</p>
<p>As to checking the StudentCard, that is definitely not an original idea. I did it myself from Aug-Thanksgiving 2007. It works very well, no one is the wiser, and it has the related health benefit of reducing blood pressure. If only I’d known about that “re-bolding” on the email thing 
This could have all been avoided if only he had texted me he was alive a little more often.</p>
<p>I am happy to report I have completed the program for Advanced Letting Go and I will have none of this paranoia when D (kid 3) goes to college. I can now check cell phone records online anyway. I have started the parental fowling the nest so that I am sure she is ready to leave. :)</p>
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<p>From the most useful (of all time) thread on CC, of course. You all saved me so much time in the college app season.</p>
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<p>At orientation, they told us about a webcam that was on a popular “crossing spot” on campus. One parent had confessed to the guide that she would habitually have coffee at the time that her son crossed that spot on his way to class - she said it gave her some relief that he was both (a) clothed and (b) going to class.</p>
<p>It’s amazing how our parents got by with the weekly-after-11-pm-when-the-rates-went-down phone calls!</p>
<p>^Mine were Sunday afternoon in the phone booth down the hall. But, yeah.</p>
<p>Started reading it, brought it to work to show a friend who’s got a college frosh D. I started LOL-ing with the epigram on the first page:</p>
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<p>Agree entirely with the comment that it’s like the Preppy Handbook in layout. Which I like very much.</p>
<p>THANKS much for the tip about the “clam fart” thread. That was just the greatest.</p>
<p>Wow - I’m overwhelmed by your kind words…and the excellent suggestions for new material. (I’ve already organized a lobbying group to help stop APGAR inflation.) Thanks so much for your support and I hope to meet some of you at one of our neurotic events.</p>
<p>Glad to suggest finding clam fart thread. I read it last year while awaiting college acceptances for DS, it was a wonderful distraction.</p>
<p>neuroticparent–you mean cc folks have lives outside of this forum and actually go to real events? ;)</p>