I mean this is the nicest possible way. This is not my first go 'round with a graduating senior, so why is the attitude driving me nuts? He wants to get as far away from us as possible, and right now, that sounds like a good idea!
Anyone else ready for their senior to start college (i.e. drop kick them into their first semester)?
I think it probably has to do with hormones and wanting to get on with the rest of their lives. Parents are totally squaresville, btw. I think this attitude goes into conversion at age 15.
I love your thread title!
I use humor to cope. Sometimes, it helps.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure that my parents were ready to shoot me to the moon if they had to in order to get away after senior year. My dad and I got into a HUGE fight right before my high school graduation that resulted in us taking separate cars.
Now, we are the best of friends and even live together in harmony.
Just thought it might give you some hope 
Ahhh, fowling the nest…It’s a real thing.
Anybody go through the experience with a boy and a girl? How did it compare? I can relate to OP, love my boys but son #1 was annoying as hell senior year spring and summer.
I’ve got two boys leaving and I’m counting the days…and so are they!
I’m experiencing this here with #4. He is making me crazy! The upside is that he leaves for college on June 29th so this will all be over quite soon (less than 3 months!), so I’m keeping this in mind and working to just keep the peace. Soon the Army will be his mother and then he’ll recognize just how good he had it here at home.
Let’s hope so.
Funny, I felt this way and then my D got accepted ED. She became a different person ever since. But don’t get too jealous, D number 2 , a sophomore, quickly took her place and I’m counting the days again! Do you think my dog will be next?
I’m ready for my junior daughter to leave. Why do you think I’m on this forum all of the time?
It can be addictive, can’t it? The more stressed out I am, the more frequently I look at it.
Deeeeeeep Breathes!!
This too shall pass!
Thank you for starting this thread. Senior years are very frustrating to me. I could put it in a more colorful way but I’ll leave it at that.
As to boys and girls - the boys didn’t want to do the homework required to graduate and were very argumentative about it, the girls are mouthy and seem to lose some of their normal good sense regarding choices in friends and boys.
Does anyone else have the situation of senior years casting a shadow over the rest of the family? It seems like the senior’s bad attitude affects other family members, in different ways, and it takes our family the first semester that they are gone to recover. I will say my girls have been much worse during their senior year than the boys.
DD '12 did the IB diploma and double tested APs so she could not coast to the finish with academics. She also has a spring sport. She just became very prickly and we walked on eggshells. DS '15 announced early on that he intended to have a bad case of senioritis this spring and he planned his schedule accordingly. He is doing dual enrollment this year, so he front loaded all his graduation requirements to be finished after winter quarter. This spring he has one academic class at the CC which is a subject that he loves and can’t take at the HS. It may count for distribution credit next year but that’s not why he chose it. He has one more vocational class at the CC and is doing his music both at the CC and the HS. He has the equivalent of a full schedule but all classes that he likes. I was skeptical about accepting a purposeful course of spring “slacking” but I’m glad that I did. He seems chipper and motivated and is a lot more fun to live with that he was the last two quarters during the big push of school, applications and auditions.
Good heavens, YES!
Me (brain nearly exploding with external patience battling with internal conniption fits) thinking: “For the love of Dog, just pick one of the perfectly fine colleges you got into!”
I smile and nod and count the days till April 30th when I can be finished waiting for THAT and start mentslly pushing her out of the nest.
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
(widely attributed to Mark Twain)
Some kids start “soiling the nest” early. We’ll likely see a few more threads like this in the summer.
When we dropped our first off at college, there was a parent info session. The speaker had sent her own kids off to college. One was so annoying in the prior summer she said she wanted to call the college and plead, “could you take her NOW?”
Maybe things will calm down once he finally picks his college.