Teenage Drama

Of course it is.  And oh, by the way, it’s my fault.  Yes, daughter number 2 salted away her SS card in a drawer and, 2 trips to college later, it has disappeared. Now she has a summer job (whew, thank God for that!  Hell hath no fury like a teenage girl with too much [...]

Bamboozled again.  What else is new.  My two college daughters, during the finals of last semester, announced how they were both idiots, did not understand the various subject matter of their classes, were likely going to flunk out of school and were ill equipped to survive in this world, never mind college. I got calls [...]

Well, it certainly would not have been for me when in college.  My eldest daughter has a B in organic chemistry (“ochem”) more than halfway through the semester.  As a result she considers herself a failure, unintelligent and abjectly unfit to survive, never mind thrive, in society when she emerges from college. Nothing like a [...]

I certainly understand how fragile teenage hearts are, perhaps particularly with teenage girls.  My second daughter, using all the finesse normally associated with a sledgehammer, went after the cute guy in the dorm down the hall. So far all is well, but then she discovers that he has a girlfriend, such is life.  So then [...]

Daughter #1 almost outdid herself this weekend past.  My oldest girl is smart, focused and has a heart of gold.  However, it also is the case she is absent minded as the day is long.  There are far worse things in life. My daughter is a sophomore in college and typically rides her bike to [...]

Well, daughter #2 carried through on her long standing threat to go by her middle name in college, rather than her first name.  My marching orders are that I am also, now and forever, to refer to my daughter by her middle name.  Right, and if pigs could fly bacon would be airborne.  Ain’t going [...]

Yes, my second daughter changed her major the day before freshman classes started. It was actually the right thing to do, certainly better than having classes for 2 or 3 weeks and then changing your major and trying to switch classes, catch up, etc. This was 3 weeks ago and she is still unrelentingly pounding [...]

So it’s just not my daughters…..which I actually did know.  A woman friend of mine with 2 daughters emailed me that her senior daughter in high school, just got kicked out 2 weeks before graduation.  Ouch!  It was a private, girls only, high school and her infractions included dress code violations, disrespect towards others, (big [...]

Yes, my second daughter is in Spain, supposedly learning the language and culture.  I suspect the reality is more boy chasing and dance parties, which is fine.  She alternates between glad to be in another culture to very, very homesick.  On the one hand she says she will be back in a month, and then [...]

My daughter calls me from college and asked if I could find a particular garment in her top drawer of her dresser.  I dutifully look and what I find are 4 checks from last summer, 2 from her summer job at a day care center, and 2 from baby sitting gigs.  All totaled it was [...]