<p>"Yeah, it bugs me I guess when parents are saying We We We in this process, and yeah, some seem to be sensitive to that..."
And it bugs some parents that you continue to preach the same thing over and over and over again..We HEAR you. Nuff said</p>
<p>Sooooo.....back to the subject of this thread:</p>
<p>any other accounts of interesting "mistakes" made during this prcoess?</p>
<p>There's a very appropriate poem by Jack Prelutsky that I am going to start quoting over and over and over and over........</p>
<p>I guess the constant pressure has finally gotten to me . I surrender to the overwhelming righteousness of the "throw them off the end of the dock to teach them to swim" parents. I have only now after the posts on this thread seen the error of my ways.</p>
<p>I myself was raised by wolves and I can see now that I have overreacted and over-compensated for that laissez-faire, "que sera, sera" parenting. I have done swung the pendulum too far. Thank you ever so much for pointing it out. Over and over. </p>
<p>I'd like to go further and admit that I saw all of your children as threats to my weak in the knees bottle baby D. How could she ever compete without me cheating the system , to steal positions that rightfully belonged to your kids? And let's not forget the $. We stole all those, too. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I will wear my Scarlet "H" forever. Not for Harvard, for "Helper".</p>
<p>Now. Can we go forward without mentioning my errors, and the similar errors made by others in helping our kids with apps? Ever again?</p>
<p>I'll admit to anything if it will help. Just ask. The first Kennedy assasination? Yep. I had the second rifle. Hugo Chavez? Yep, I'm destabilizing the economy as we speak. Dancing With The Stars? Yep. My idea.</p>
<p>curmudgeon- are you that distinguished judge in the middle on DWTS?</p>
<p>Curmudgeon: I am sure there are recovery groups for us. <em>grin</em> </p>
<p>The mistake <em>we</em> made was not maintaining contact information for all teachers son had. His 9-11 high school had high turnover and all the good teachers kept leaving. We tried to stay in touch with those teachers, but it was hard. By senior year when <em>we</em> finally gave up on that school, those teachers couldn't be used for recommendations because they had all gone n to other (better) jobs and schools. All of son's recommenders were teachers who had just known him 2-3 months, as opposed to his teachers that had known him for 2-3 years at the previous school. (First school had only 120 students and teachers taught several grades, so they knew him really well.)</p>
<p>"Hi, my name is GA2012MOM, and I'm a helper." </p>
<p>"Hi GA2012MOM!"</p>
<p>Oh God, Cur! I just spit out a mouthfull of tea when I started reading your post! You are Hystericall![ except I LOVE dancing with the STARS!]</p>
<p>^same here</p>
<p>Hysterical. Thank you Curmudgeon.
Now repeat, I will not help, I will not help, I will not help.
Repetition does wonders.</p>
<p>Since my Inbox is overflowing with requests for the poem, I am going to post it here:</p>
<p>I OFTEN REPEAT REPEAT MYSELF
by Jack Prelutsky</p>
<p>I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
I simply know that I I I
am am inclined to say to say
a lot a lot this way this way-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat. </p>
<p>I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
My mom my mom gets mad gets mad,
it irritates my dad my dad,
it drives them up a tree a tree,
that's what they tell they tell me me-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat. </p>
<p>I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
It gets me in a jam a jam,
but that's the way I am I am,
in fact I think it's neat it's neat
to to to to repeat repeat-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.</p>
<p>Thank you thank you</p>
<p>Ditto. Well said, Curm and Choco!!</p>
<p>Curmudgeon- are you also reponsible for the Dance War spin-off I just saw advertised? If so, please cool it! You need another hobby.</p>
<p>Oh, NO mafool! I'm looking forward to watching that! [snif snif] Don't kill it PLEASE Cur![ [lol]</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, doesn't the H stand for "helicopter"?</p>
<p>Curm--
I hazard to guess I'm the only other poster who truly knows about weak bottle babies! haha (it's a goat thing) </p>
<p>Count me among the we we we set and I don't regret a moment of it. My pocketbook surely thanks me too. For many years into the future. With everything he had on his plate at that time, if I could help with the administrative bs, that was ok with me. I also don't expect a 17 year to understand complex financial aid, scholarships and how much a heavy debt load will affect their future opportunities and choices.</p>
<p>Different things work for different families and it's all ok. Most all of them end up in college....</p>
<p>"Yeah, it bugs me I guess when parents are saying We"</p>
<p>CGM, does your husband feel similarly?</p>
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Curmudgeon, doesn't the H stand for "helicopter"?
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<p>Sure. Why not? Helicopter helper heretic . That's me. ;)</p>
<p>he never says We when its his kids work, responsibility or admitance to college</p>
<p>he takes pride that it isn't WE in some cases, that it is D...imagine that</p>