<p>Happy moms’ day! I had the interesting contrast – 7 year old who showered me w/homemade and store-bought gifts and teen who was happy just to say ILY & give me a few hugs. It’s all good, I guess.</p>
<p>JSM–I think your daughter would be in a great position to do rush week (we have that at son’s school). She’ll have been there all summer so will know tons of people and won’t have to show up 1 week early for a highly-social event not knowing anyone (that to me would be a teeny bit stressful!). Sounds like it would be fun, although of course a little sad that she wouldn’t be home that week.</p>
<p>missypie–what a fun experience to see your son thriving & being highly valued at school!</p>
<p>Funny, Jolynne - I was just about to write very much the same post. (Although I also got a call and a homemade card from the one already in college.) And the 7yo also managed to lose another tooth, so that made the day extra-special.</p>
<p>I love all these Mother’s Day stories. lindz, I’d have cried, too. And cpeltz, I know what you mean about filing certain days away. </p>
<p>And I’m enjoying the terrific end-of-the-year, last-concert (etc.) stories, too. missypie, how unbelievably wonderful it must have felt to hear those cheers. </p>
<p>13 days 'til prom (not that S1 is particularly excited about that), 27 days 'til graduation. Down to just one more last - the Athletic Banquet - and then Senior Awards night. </p>
<p>S1 got an email from his college telling him that the big housing, etc., packet is on the way this week. It was nice to see him looking happy when he told me about that.</p>
<p>Harriet–doesn’t having the older teen/younger make you appreciate the little things w/the little one? I said to husband, “I’m going to remember this [the scavenger hunt she orchestrated for my gifts, the cards, the hours of work on a craft item] – when she is 16!” You see how it doesn’t stay the same. But, it’s okay!</p>
<p>I’ve been reading the thread about students begging their profs for a higher grade so they can have a high enough GPA to keep their merit aid. This is a real concern for me - if Son looses his merit aid, he’s done at his school; I’m not going into debt to keep him there.</p>
<p>I can fully understand the concern. But on the flip side, it kinda bothers me that kids might beg professors for grades they didn’t earn for one reason or another (legit and perhaps not so legit) just to keep merit aid. I mean, don’t kids know the terms of those awards before they go? And if you’ve waited until the end of the term to start begging, I’d have a real issue with anyone capitulating. It would be different and I might have more compassion if the kid had been working hard all semester, taking advantage of professor office hours or other help, but if a kid has blown it off enjoying spring, well… aren’t there consequences for those choices? Little kids, little problems, small consequences. Big kids, big problems, large consequences. To not hold people accountable for the work they put out is to encourage, even reward, a lack of ethics. Hopefully, if a kids education was dependent on keeping this kinds of awards, they were doing their absolute best to meet the challenge and were well aware of what would happen if they didn’t.</p>
<p>Yes, I’d be ticked. But sometimes the best educator is the school of hard knocks. To not allow children to ever fail is to not allow them the joy of knowing what it truly feels like to succeed. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>On Driving: I’m still working on DD and am hopeful that when school ends, I can get her behind the wheel some more. Like shawbridge’s son, my D has had to focus in school to overcome deficits. Maybe that partially explains her lack of motivation.</p>
<p>I also wonder if some of our kid’s lack of interest in driving cars might stem from the fact that they have grown up controlling other machines, like game machines, computers, etc. and aren’t motivated by the idea of controlling a driving machine?</p>
<p>My husband would be amazed that so many seniors aren’t licensed drivers yet. He couldn’t believe that Son had no interest. He signed Son up for drivers ed after his 16th birthday and Son got his license shortly before his 17th birthday (midway through Jr year.) His sister got her permit on her 15th birthday and her license on her 16th birthday.</p>
<p>minimom–S also is spending lots of time connecting. I am not sure that he ever went to the FB page for WU2013. He did let me take a look at the WuHoo site to see how it was set up. There is a lot of information there about the orientation and such. I managed then to find it by searching “admitted students”.</p>
<p>Well, D’s last AP today…AP Physics C…told her as long as she keeps at least a C in the class, it’s all good. Hopefully will at least pass the AP exam!</p>
<p>Leaves for senior trip this weekend, then 2 more ceremonies before Gradutation on the 23rd!! Then we can work on the license!!!</p>
<p>I think it must be a regional difference. I think that every one of the 90 something kids graduating on the 12th of June has her/his license except one of their very close friends whose mom doesn’t drive either. She also lives down town so can get places on foot if she has to.</p>
<p>Round here we don’t have public transit to speak of and kids live way out of town so in order to have a social life they have to drive. Most get their license on or as close to their 16th b-day as possible</p>
<p>AP Physics C mechanics is over. D (and apparently everyone posting on the AP test board) all think it was just awful. It made D feel better when I told her that everyone posting said the free response questions 2 and 3 were extremely evil. As D said, the group of them taking the test who are generally thought of as the brightest in the school started laughing after it was done. Oh well. Now just 2 left for Wed --comp in the morning and art history in the afternoon.</p>
<p>Wondering if there is any chance (at our house) of making it to the finish line w/out any more surprises. Seems unlikely. Call from principal- prank at school; late fee to get tux in time for prom; considering nearby state flagship school after all (they still have openings in major). Must be the spring air in the last few weeks of senior year…!</p>
<p>Two APs tomorrow – but they scheduled costume fitting for the musical tonight, of all nights, and warned it might go to 7 p.m… She wasn’t particularly pleased about that.</p>
(Although I also got a call and a homemade card from the one already in college.) And the 7yo also managed to lose another tooth, so that made the day extra-special.</p>