<p>Okay, so I just got accepted to a college that I'm going to have to live in a dorm if I attend, and just the thought of moving away makes me miss mommy and daddy! (Yes, I still call them that.) SO. These are from the times I've spent long periods away from home, and will probably continue when I go off to college.</p>
<p>-When you call your mom twice a day, once to say good morning and once to say goodnight.
-You actually miss your dad walking around the house singing showtunes while you're trying to do homework.
-You hear someone whistling and wish it was your dad.
-You buy White Diamonds and spray it in your room every now and again because "it smells like mommy".
-Watching Gilmore Girls with your roommates reminds you of the jokes you share with your mother.
-You get an email from someone with the same first name as your mom, only to be disappointed when you realize it's spam.</p>
<p>haha.... you'll adapt to college once you're there!
It just may seem like it'll be hard, but everyone else will be right there with you freshmen year! And that's what orientation groups, clubs, RAs, etc. are there for.</p>
<p>Yeah, I do attend APU... my final year there, and I may actually be going to Rosemead (at Biola) for grad school (getting my Psy.D. or Ph.D. in Clinical Psych).</p>
<p>When I went off to college - back in the day - I missed my dog the most!!! It's nice to see a young adult who appreciates her parents, HisGrace.</p>
<p>haha, spraying White Diamonds would make me think of my mom, but in a whole different way. My dad bought her White Diamonds EVERY YEAR for Christmas, and she hated it, but would never tell him. She'd never, ever use up her supply, and there was a stack of like, 4 White Diamonds gift boxes filled with their original contents on her dresser. So one Christmas, she was so sick of it that she kept hinting about a new perfume she liked, the Coco Chanel one, but that year it was out of stock everywhere, so my dad went and bought the White Diamonds anyway. So on Christmas she opens the box and screams NO NO NO I TOLD YOU I WANTED COCO CHANEL, I HATE WHITE DIAMONDS. And she returned it the next day :)</p>
<p>I talk to my mom at least once a day, basically. For a while I went through a phase where I got really mad when she would call because she's do it like 5 times a day, and I was doing my rebellious thing (a little late). But we're all cool now.</p>
<p>"You know you miss your mom when everytime you smoke it reminds you of that one time you blazed with mommmy in the garage." - from my friend Jason</p>
<p>^^^my mom was up here for the weekend, caught us smoking pot. she flipped at first because she thought it was cigarettes....then i showed her the j and she was like...oh, it's just pot, keep it down fellas" and went back to bed....how awesome is that?</p>
<p>LOL LOL. Oh you goto Berkeley. Surprisingly that explains some of it ahahahah. But your mom freaked out more about you guys smoking cigerette?? LOL.</p>
<p>I miss my mom cooking for me :/ Cooking takes too long.... I missed home in beginning of the semester but I've slowly gotten out of it again (sophomore)</p>
<p>ya well, my mom had some lung problems due to cigarettes. It makes way more sense tho, cigarettes are way more dangerous to your health than pot. but it was chill</p>
<p>lol, that's hilarious. my mom would probably freak out equally, but only because pot is illegal and she wouldn't want me to get caught go to jail. She told me she tried it back in the day (she was a bit of a hippie back in the 70s), but didn't care for it. She does however tell me all about the harmfulness of cigarettes every chance she gets, and would probably disown me if she ever thought I smoked them.</p>
<p>it's funny the different "chill" levels of parents. like....some parents/older generation of adults will drink, smoke grass, etc. with the younger generation, like my uncle or my mom and even my dad (drinking).
whereas some parents are nuts when it comes to that kinda stuff.
i think it's how they fell along the divide of the 60's and where they live now and grew up. my mom grew up in the 60's and in CA, so she's way more tolerant of grass and drinking and what not. my dad on the other hand, while not intolerant, grew up in argentina during the 60's and never really got that. but being in Argentina got him a more radical experience so he's generally tolerant.</p>
<p>on the other hand, some parents never want to go back to the 60's or remember what they did back then--so they crack down hard core on any sort of mischief like smoking grass.</p>
<p>i think it's a huge divide in our parents (baby-boomerish) generation, between the people who had a great time in the 60's and early 70's and go..."damn, i wish we'd won" and the people who weren't necessarily a part of it, never understood the movements, or took part and now regret it and never want to remember that revolutionary time....kind of reminds me of "Easy Rider" in a older, broader cultural context.</p>
<p>my parents wouldnt want me to smoke weed, but they really dont care if i drink. they obviously dont want me to drive drunk, but they dont care if i get drunk, just as long as im safe about it.</p>
<p>My mom used to buy me beer if she knew that we just wanted to chill at a friend's house and we weren't going to go out. She said it was better than me being sketchy and asking older kids or my friends or I using fakes and potentially getting into trouble.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it's better that my parents stick to being my parents rather than trying to be "chill" and buying me drugs or beer or something like that. I respect them more for it, and my mom is actually my best friend. I don't like it that parents break the law for their children in buying them drugs and alcohol. It doesn't seem right.</p>
<p>^ITA with you. However, it actually isn't against the law for parents to buy their child alcohol. If they are there when you are having the drink, it's legal. Of course, they cannot serve one's friends alcohol. Recreational drugs is another story.</p>
<p>i think it can be a healthy way to introduce young people into the plants/substances that society uses. i'm glad my uncle taught me how to use cannabis responsibly, and that my mom taught me to drink responsibly, it helps me out immensely.</p>