<p>My parents are driving me CRAZY. They are suffocating me!!! I think they realized i'm going to college in the fall and like freaked out, so now they're trying to spend as much time with me as possible. They're always home now, always constantlyyy breathing down my neck, asking 7 billion unnecessary questions.. just ugh. </p>
<p>The beginning of senior year, i planned on going to a college about 3-5 hours away. now i've completely changed my mind and i'm going across the country lol. i know i am going to miss them once i'm actually in college, but right now this is literally driving me insane. i'm less busy now so whenever i'm home, which is alot, i can never have any peace and quiet and i just want to rip my hair out !</p>
<p>I know they are doing it because they love me but damn. sorry for this post, i just really needed to vent. </p>
<p>My mom and I are gelling so it’s all good…for now.</p>
<p>Get a job so you don’t always have to be home. I’ve found that the more I work the more happy I am (and my mom is) when I get home. Nothing like running into your mom’s arms after you haven’t seen her for 16 hours!</p>
<p>This post made me laugh, because I literally think my son could have written it… Be patient with your folks, BIG adjustment coming for you, but BIGGER one for them, and it’s scary and weird even for us grown-ups.</p>
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<li>Have you tried TALKING with them about how you are getting just a little irritated with their constant hovering over you?</li>
<li>Be more mature about this, and realize they won’t be here with you forever. After you go to college, you’re essentially on your own and will slowly start to rarely see them again (besides the occasional Skype call and visit back).</li>
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<p>Lmao. I need to get away too. Fortunately, come summer (not Fall because school start in summer) I’ll be away. But already our vacation plan look also. College shopping, trip to New York, possible trip to Florida or Texas.</p>
<p>So have they started giving you lessons and talks about things they think you should know? Check out the parent thread on things we wish we taught our kids before they went to college. </p>
<p>Yea, we actually do stay up at night thinking of these things. </p>
<p>We don’t want you to go (well, most of us don’t!), but we want you to be successful when you do go into the world. Otherwise, we have not done our job. </p>
<p>So play along. You will be in college soon. And yes, getting a job is probably not a bad idea. I think that helped my son keep his sanity his senior year. </p>
<p>PS…some of that will not stop just because you are in in college. Just ask my son!</p>
<p>I’m having the opposite problem. I’m excited for college but I have extreme anxiety issues and have no idea how I’m going to handle it. I know it’s going to be very hard without my mom by my side. She recently started dating again so she’s always with her boyfriend. In a way I guess it’s preparing me for being by myself but not really because I want to spend more time with her before I leave. She always says she’s going to cry when I leave but she never spends time with me while I’m here.</p>
<p>This is a sentiment EVERY young adult should feel, so they will be motivated to move out and start living life on their own. We actually plan it this way! It is part of our master plot! If we make it too comfy, you will never leave. :)</p>
<p>We love you, but we don’t want you, to be that 30 year old, living in our basement.</p>
<p>I’m going to New York City (from Chicago). Yet, my parents are like nothing. I assume it will be VERY different once I leave… I know my mom will be depressed for a bit. Haha! I just find it funny how I never really imagined myself leaving so far for college (as much as I have always wanted to), and now, it is a reality!</p>
<p>Your parents love you! You should just tell them to give you a bit of space. Their your parents… I highly doubt they will disown you, so to speak, with the way you have described them! Lol.</p>
<p>This is so normal. HS seniors driving their parents crazy as they’re starting to look forward to their impending independence, but in the back of their minds there is some doubt and trepidation. Parents driving their seniors crazy because they suddenly start to wonder if the brash fledgling is actually ready to leave the nest and project what will happen to them “out there”. Don’t worry, you will go away to college, the first few times back will seem weird, you may even drive each other crazy some more and then you and your parents will start to settle in to a new way of relating to each other that doesn’t involve the crazy.</p>
Be patient with your folks, BIG adjustment coming for you, but BIGGER one for them, and it’s scary and weird even for us grown-ups.</p>