<p>What a nightmare it was driving 3 hours north with my daughter to her Summer Orientation. Within 10 minutes of our trip, she criticized my driving every 2 minutes and that had to stop. She hated the hotel, was embarrassed to death that I was friendly and spoke to people in a crowded elevator; she died when I was the first in line to get material the next morning and stayed 50 yards away from me; she gave me "the look" when we had time to kill in the computer room before the session started and a nice young man came up to our computer area to use a computer and I said hi (horrors) and asked if he was here for Summer Orientation and he was and I introduced my daughter to him...I never heard the end of that horrible sin of mine! On the following and final day, she called me to tell me that she was almost finished with class selection and to come into the auditorium. Okay, I walked into this huge room and there she was wayyyyyy up in front and there were 20 people in the entire place, so I walked up, sat at a distant table, but not distant enough for Miss Independent. She looked at me startled that I was there, say "Oh, that's my mom" and she introduced me to two guys she was talking to and then said "You can go now"...Her rudeness, sarcasm, criticism, higher-than-mighty attitude was disgusting, uncalled for and hurtful. She is happy with her college selection and feels she will fit in beautifully there. She is thrilled that everybody is so friendly, but she doesn't want her mom to utter a word! Ridiculous! In fact, when she and I found our way into the auditorium for the Dean's address where there were 25 huge round tables to select from, she looked at me and said "I want to find a table where I don't think you would talk at"...Her father and I had a big talk with Her Highness this morning and said it is an honor and a privilege to go to college and we are unhappy with her actions and they have to stop. All she cares about are her friends, morning noon and night. She has a list of chores to do every morning, very easy ones, and can she do them without my badgering her? Nope! She sleeps in until noon or longer, too. It is time for her to leave, period over and out. She has apologized on rare occasions but the attitude keeps on keeping on. How a person can have so many friends and be so well liked by her teachers, friends, parents friends...and then to be treated like a second class citizen is beyond me. After reading the posts, I realize that she is worse now than ever before of the stress and anxiety of starting over in college, making new friends there, trying to fit in, on and on...She will come around eventually, I've read. My son, who is now at UC Santa Barbara, was so sweet and continues to be grateful for all his parents have done for him. They are night and day. This is the summer from hell with her. That's all from me, aren't you glad...ha! (My son used his member name "perfectwall" before and I am using it now").</p>