<p>Toys R Us!!!</p>
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<p>I hear ya. Of course, the Worst Kid Activity Ever is summer rec swim team. You have to be at some distant town at 6:30 am for “warm up” then you sit there for hours and hours while it’s getting hotter and hotter and then your kids swims for a under three minutes. You just get hotter and hotter, thinking, “I could die of heatstroke out here on my lawn chair and no one would notice.”</p>
<p>Im a soccer/hockey(my boys) Mom. I will miss watching her games.
I dont know how many I will get to see when she plays in college.
At least in soccer your kid is playing most of the game.</p>
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<p>You know, after the first swim team summer, I vowed to never complain about watching a soccer game again. Whether it is sweltering, freezing or raining, it’s only an hour and your kid is on the field at least half the time.</p>
<p>Mine are both in college now.<br>
I def. do not miss:</p>
<p>Trying to find room in my frig. for four gallons of milk
Hearing “we have nothing to eat.”
Wondering when they will be straggling in late at night.
Washing clothes constantly due to kid wearing three shirts/day
Getting up earlier than I have to every day to make sure he gets up.</p>
<p>Do not miss any of the high sch. hoopla except for football games (both played )</p>
<p>No more belief in the tooth fairy. I was seriously sad about this. The tooth fairy forgot to pick up her tooth because he was in a hurry, he did leave a dollar though.</p>
<p>I still have an 11 year old at home, but I am so happy tha I no longer have to see movies like " Hotel for Dogs " huge relief
Also, no more annoying room mothers</p>
<p>I don’t miss driving the forgotten trumpet to grade school on winter mornings.</p>
<p>Awaiting for Grades Reports in HS, SAT/ACT scores, university acceptance/rejection letters…</p>
<p>Glitter! .</p>
<p>All that extra laundry.</p>
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<p>For homeocoming, my drill team daughter had to make large “good luck” posters for two guys on the football team. “Full glitter.” That means, every bit of the poster board covered with gltter. Meaning glitter on the table and the chairs and the floor…and in all of our shoes…and in all the cars…that glitter is still probably making its way around the Earth.</p>
<p>I do NOT miss:</p>
<p>Rousting my son out of bed in the morning so that he won’t be late for school</p>
<p>His dirty socks scattered here and there</p>
<p>Him hogging the computer every evening, saying that he is doing homework when he is actually sending idiotic instant messages to his friends</p>
<p>But I DO miss:</p>
<p>Being a Band Mom. Whether at high school band tournaments, parades, or college football games, it’s the absolute best time I had as a parent.</p>
<p>yes, glitter !</p>
<p>I am not a crier. However, I surprised myself and did cry as my son and the other kids in the cast took their last bows on stage at the end of their spring musical in June. The thought of never seeing that group of kids perform together again made me very sad. </p>
<p>That said, the thing I do not miss the most is all the “DRAMA” involved with high school theatre (and I’m not necessarily just talking about the kids)!</p>
<p>LOL about the glitter.
When my son was 4 1/2 we had a huge Christmas party at our house. I decided to set up some crafts to keep the kiddos busy. One of them involved glitter. Why I thought that was a good idea is beyond me! We moved from that house this past summer (14 years after said party) and I’m sure the new homeowners are still finding glitter to this day ;D What a MESS!</p>
<p>I am a crier, when my D played her last HS soccer game, I was a mess. She was laughing so hard because I had to go up and give her flowers and make up was running down my face.</p>
<p>I do NOT miss:</p>
<p>1) Parent-Teacher Conferences (even though there was never really any “bad” news)
2) High School sports’ coaches on power trips
3) Running forgotten books over to the high school
4) Having no cash because someone always needed it for some school fee
5) Dealing with the snarkiness and pettiness of many in middle and high school</p>
<p>What I DO miss:</p>
<p>1) Watching my son play lacrosse - he played with such joy and wild abandon out there. It still makes my heart sing to think of it!!</p>
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<p>Oh, yes. Also, Play-Doh.</p>
<p>And, more seriously:</p>
<p>1) Archaic school policies that do not allow responsible adolescents to carry their own prescription drugs.</p>
<p>2) Equally archaic school policies that require kids with migraines to decide within 20 minutes whether they’re going to go back to class or be sent home, even if the aura has not subsided at that point and they therefore have no idea how bad the headache is going to be.</p>
<p>3) Even more archaic school policies that do not allow students, even those with a note from a parent or doctor, free access to a restroom at all times.</p>
<p>As the parent of one kid with migraines and another with a digestive tract problem, I spent years fighting with school nurses. Glad it’s over!</p>
<p>-having to find a shoebox for a habitat project (hardly anyone makes rectangular shoe boxes any more)
-midnight runs to Walmart for posterboard, glue stick, construction paper, etc. for a project S forget to mention
-all nighters keeping S company (ie. making sure he didn’t go to sleep) when he procrastinated too long on a project (although I have done 1 phone all nighter–calls every 30-60 mn–for his first big paper)
-school fund raisers (only have Girl Scouts to worry about now)</p>