<p>OMG!!!</p>
<p>I splat the monitor with water!!!</p>
<p>HM, we owe you … :D</p>
<p>historymom, thanks for reminding me of the day D came home from first grade and announced with shining eyes and reverent tone that she knew how much H and I liked poems, and she’d learned a new one today, and could she please say it at dinner?</p>
<p>Hearts aglow, we leaned toward one another as she began,</p>
<p>“I see your hiney!
It’s very shiny!
If you don’t hide it,
I’m gonna bite it.”</p>
<p>HMW, my mom sang that to me when I was 4 or 5… now I wonder how many of my first-grade classmates, after hearing it from me, went home and shocked their parents at the dinner table! :o</p>
<p>ROFLOL: HMW hysterical, I soooo would love to meet this D of yours. From her auspicious beginnings in the science and literary worlds I know she would be a stitch to have around!</p>
<p>geekmom: I am sure a couple did. I remember delighting in those naughty but not dirty little rhymes. My parents taught and used to egg me on to recite the following limerick: </p>
<p>There once was a maid from Madras
Who had a most beautiful @$$
Not rosey and pink
As you probably think
It was grey had long ears and ate grass</p>
<p>Those permissive late 60s were an interesting time to be growing up no??</p>
<p>^ Ha! I was an early reader and would pick up absolutely anything with words. Once I entertained my dad’s employees no end with a book of “dirty jokes” someone had left on a coffee table. I didn’t understand a thing I was saying, but they sure thought it was a hoot.</p>
<p>historymom, that’s priceless. I love it.</p>
<p>Also loving your status today, geek_mom.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.</p>
<p>I found out from the teacher that one of the porjects is a large power point - so that may be easier to accomplish. He is being supportive at least and wants to see S get these things done so he will graduate - he says he knows he is brilliant and that he sees that this has been a struggle - he doesn’t know about the English assignments AND the paper he has to write reflecting on his senior project (Honestly that is just insult added to injury - he already spent a huge amount of time writing the research paper)
It is so overwhelming and depressing juxtaposed against the excitment of signing up for his college classes (none of which will require much if any writing at this point) wearing his college swag, planning for voice camp - all of which may end up moot.</p>
<p>I still hold out a tiny scrap of hope he can get things done by end of school year- meaning he will not walk with his class unless he can get things up to a certain level where it is obvious he will pass his required classes. His English class is over in mid June, about 3 weeks from now, but he has to be “on track” in 10 days - can’t see it happening - to “walk”.</p>
<p>Oh I hope he gets it done.!
My new shiny is my new laptop. My old DT kept freezing and doing weird things. It wasn’t expensive but it will do. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it!</p>
<p>downtoearth, a new laptop is geek paradise… hope you enjoy!</p>
<h1>theorymom, I hope he pulls it off too. Is he receptive to sitting down together and working out a plan with you? If he can get one or two of them done, maybe he’ll start getting the momentum and feeling less overwhelmed. BTW I have to agree, a paper reflecting on his senior paper is just… dumb.</h1>
<p>HMW, grad-itude is the word of the day! Last week I was overwhelmed at the thought of throwing a grad party. But now we have the space, decorations, a plan for food, invitations arriving soon… it’s falling into place. geek_son’s in that awkward position of not wanting to be the center of attention, but secretly wanting to, but not wanting anyone to think he wants to, but… :rolleyes: so I said heck yeah, you’re having a party, and you can turn the spotlight on everyone who’s helped you get to this point in your life. Hence grad-itude. :)</p>
<h1>theorymom, it was not clear my son was going to graduate last June. The reason was a combination of sickness – he was exhausted from sleep apnea and caught everything in sight – and he put a ton of energy into Moot Court (which was a very tiring activity for him). One option that we considered was not graduating with the class and finishing the work in the first two weeks after school ended. As usual, my son came through, but he was incredibly close to not graduating with his class. As with your son, the school was pulling for him and probably cut a few corners because they wanted him to graduate with his class.</h1>
<p>But, while the gap year is certainly an option (one I think is a great idea and was a big benefit to my son), a simpler option is just to take an incomplete and finish over the summer. Could that work?</p>
<p>My son worked out a plan for finishing everything with his cousin, who has been a sometime tutor and sometime co-author. That planning was essential.</p>
<p>Just catching up…hang in their #theorymom! This stuff is not easy. </p>
<p>Enjoyed reading the kiddie poems & hearing about all the ups and downs everyone is experiencing. </p>
<p>Son headed off to prom tonight in tux, w/stretch limo & w/a gang of tuxedo-clad gents and gorgeous girls. </p>
<p>Trying to tell myself to -enjoy- these times, but I seem to be stuck in stress-rut (did you remember the flowers? (no…had to drive back) etc.). Maybe it’s first-kid syndrome – everything is a ‘first-time’ and laden w/worry, etc. :-)</p>
<p>Hope all the kids stay on track and get done everything they need…while enjoying…!</p>
<p>When I was about 6 or 7 an older girl on the bus taught me a little diddy… and I went home and showed my mom. Sticking up my thumb, forefinger and ring finger I began… “Do” (fold down the thumb) “Re” (fold down the forefinger) “Me” (keep only ring finger up) and say “no YOU”… my mother’s face was priceless… and then she asked me if I knew what I had just done and I started crying because I immediately knew it must have been something bad but I hadn’t a clue… She never did tell me what it meant… I found out eventually. HaHa</p>
<h1>theorymom, please arrange a meeting with the principal or assistant principal - see what can be arranged. It’s time to get the next level involved.</h1>
<p>thanks everyone -for understanding</p>
<h1>theorymom…can he take the incompletes and finish in summer??? Some schools allow walking with the class at graduation and then not getting the real diploma until later. Maybe that can be arranged with the administration??? That gives you an option and you could still think about a gap year or deferral. Thinking of you! Take care!!!</h1>
<p>Wow! You all have been chatty today! I was still stuck in the gaarage for the big garage sale today. Going back to catch up!</p>
<p>Me too nm. #theorymom…hope he does step up.
I just return from watching my delightful (to everyone but me) S at the State Track Meet. I drove 1/2 way and stopped at a store I like and bought myself a nice summer outfit and a dark chocolate carmel apple for the road. Drove 35 more miles (LOVE GPS) and went through a charming town that I have never seen before. I then sat for two hours and watched S do his triple jump (just OK) and then waited for the annoucement of the finals and drove home the 60ish miles and actually had a delightful day. Poured myself a nice manhatten and DH put my pictures up and made our favorite the new screen saver. S walked 10 feet away from me and did not see me and I decided that I would have the last laugh. Wonder what he will say tomorrow night when he turns the computer on…bad boy not wanting his parents at the meet.</p>
<p>Well done, O101. You’d make an excellent secret operative. Sounds like a lovely day all around. I hear the weather was gorgeous up your way today.</p>
<h1>tm - don’t know that I have anything to add, but agree that you’ll always find good listeners here.</h1>
<p>hmom—loved your little ditty, now have you guys been into the liquor while I was gone?</p>
<p>theorymom–how frustrating that you just found out today? I’d be upset with the teacher for waiting til now to inform you…I second geekmom and cpeltz’s ideas to help get your s mobilized to ‘just do it’. I’ve done the ‘brainstorming’ technique of getting them free associating and putting it on paper for them…and the ol’ “go work an hour and then take a break” to get them over that hump of being overwhelmed and immobilized…</p>
<p>I wish your son a big helping of motivation, may sound silly, but I visualize him getting it done…and you breathing a big sigh of relief in a few weeks…good luck</p>
<p>d’s graduation was this evening–forgot how powerful the processional is at evoking that ‘omg my child is really growing up’ set of emotions… sniff, sniff…it was a lovely ceremony, and all went well. my d couldn’t get over that she’s actually done…she worked to overcome much during high school, btwn her ADD, and some tough issues w her dad, very proud of how she persevered. it was also poignant to see the young man who was struggling of late, receive his diploma.</p>
<p>late last night finally finished d’s mini quilt, which I did without any sewing 
and photo book, which was fun to shower her with at dinner–we all went out to the Melting Pot, bf is driving d to her grad bash at Boomers (amusement park) go karts, bumper boats, laser tag. they get to be kids, get their ya yas out til 5 a.m.</p>
<p>good luck with all the final day stuff…</p>