Not a big deal @laruiejgs, don’t beat yourself up. So he now has the summer for additional prep time for the Bio and to prep for PSAT (but if he is only a rising sophomore not sure I would even bother with the PSAT prep.)
His reaction shows what a great job you have done with him. He sounds like a wonderful boy!
Thanks again, everyone, for your stories. I had a workout and a shower and I brought him his favorite lunch and gave him a back scratch, and so we’re both feeling better about it. I appreciate all the support.
Sounds like your son is mature and has learned to handle the inevitable ups and downs of life. When this happens in our family – and it happens plenty – I remind everyone that as long as the sun came up the next day and no one died, then we’re going to be fine.
My husband did something that truly disappointed my daughter: she wanted to get her driver’s license on her 16th birthday. It something she talked about since she was about 13! So on that big day, she goes to the DMV… and comes out without a license because my DH forgot to fix a broken tail light. Which meant no exam that day. Daughter was really bummed. But not as much as my DH! Who made it up to her buy installing a state-of-the-art DVD stereo system in the car she’d be driving. He didn’t say anything about it, but she understood instantly it was an I’m-sorry gift for her.
And now that unsuccessful attempt to get a license on her 16th birthday is just part of family lore.
OP, I live in California where in my city a community with a high school has the same name as a town two hours away (with just a slightly different spelling). I have heard from more than one parent of discovering the night before the SAT that they had mistakenly signed their child up for the SAT in the town two hours away! The result is a mad scramble to find a hotel, and a fast drive up to that town then waiting around while the student took the SAT with a nice two hour drive back. I know you felt terrible, but you are not alone with making SAT registration mistakes. Isn’t it nice to learn you have such a nice son.
Apparently I, myself, made the same mistake with the same town two hours away but for registering for my DD to take her driving test. It was my DD’s last attempt at passing for her driver’s license or else she would have to start the process all over again. (In California you get three tries within a year-my D failed her first try, I made her wait six months, second try we had a tail light out so they wouldn’t let her take it then). I was out of the country so my DD asked a girlfriend of mine to take her to her appointment. While trying to sign in, she discovered I had mistakenly clicked for an appointment in the other town and the day was her last day eligible for taking the test. Fortunately the DMV had some cancellations and my girlfriend was very persistent in begging for my DD. She passed so it wasn’t a complete disaster for me, but when I came back to the U.S. it was the first thing out of my DD’s mouth.
Good luck to your son on taking the test in the fall. I am sure he will end up at a great college for him.
Ugh, I can totally see myself doing that. Everyone makes mistakes. Breathe and try to let it go.
BTW, even if your DS signs up by himself, he could also make mistakes as well.
Best if 2 people look at it carefully just before the send button is pushed.
Brushing up on bio just before sept won’t take as long as the first round of studying.
I hope the OP and her son feel a little better by now. It was a mistake. Hopefully he can laugh it off and move on quickly. It might be time to get him that (Blank) that he needs or wants. Did someone say ice cream? There has to be some way mommy can make it better :-).
If he takes AP Bio junior year he can take the subject test then, it may be for the best actually.
My mom and I do things the way @SlackerMomMD described.
At worst this becomes a running joke in the family.
Here’s a good mistake. I don’t recall where I read it, but a kid applied to, was accepted to, and enrolled in Colby. Only he thought he was applying to Colgate.
Shouldn’t your kid be old enough to sign up for the SAT himself?
I made a plane reservation for my daughter and spelled her name wrong. Fortunately, I called the airline right away and the customer service person had pity on me and changed the reservation; otherwise, I’d have been on the hook for a ticket that she might not have been able to use, if the people at the airport were doing their job.
OP, I hope you notice that your thread has had over over 1 K looks! apparently either there are many of us who are concerned about being/not being the world’s worst parents! There are road bumps along the way but with love and perseverance and hard work (and a lot of good advice and support) it will all work out.
If this is your worst mistake as a parent, you are in good shape. And you are in good company. I have two friends who signed their kids up for June tests so late this year that they had to drive them two hours to the nearest test site and another one who forgot to sign her kid up altogether and only found out about it last week. Last year, I was siting on the ledge outside of my D’s school while she took Chem subject test and one of her classmates ran in about 20 minutes late and then came out and then I saw her mother walk in and then they both left, heads down. It turns out that the daughter was too late and they wouldn’t let her sit for the test. The smug, know-it-all mother sitting next to me said something like “you would think that the mother would manage to get her daughter to school on time for an important test” and I just said “there but for the grace of God go I.” The next day we ran into the mom and daughter who had missed the test at the airport on the way to a great vacation and they were laughing about it already.
So sorry. If there is a time to make this sort of mistake it is now, and not 2 years from now! And your child can reduce chances of a recurrence by double checking registrations.
I am also a parent who almost caused her child to fail her driving test, by not having a current registration sticker on the license plate. (The points my daughter lost by not checking her blind spot enough times were her responsibility, however.)
Never too early to learn “If you want something done right, do it yourself.”
I also have to wonder why he wasn’t participating in the registration process. My kid did the registration. We watched.
@lauriejgs, take a look at this thread and you will hopefully feel better than the mom and the guidance counselor of the child who accidentally applied and was admitted to the WRONG college Early Decision:
As a kid…
First of all I find this thread pretty awesome and funny,
Second of all, although I trust my parents, I made sure that I registered by my self. I didn’t even let my parents type in there credit card number, for that matter. I think that mistakes happen, and that in the long run this will have no real effect.
Edit- I found it funny that I was accidentally redirected to the parent forum. I was actually just discussing my sat bio.
If this is all it takes to make up for the mishap, you’re doing good! Now you can join the ranks of us parents whose kids don’t trust them to do things correctly.
This really is the perfect time to learn the lesson, right after his freshman year. Early days, yet.