I went out with Unplanned No.'s 2 and 3. Today was registration for #2 at the high school. We also went school clothes shopping and had a nice lunch together at a restaurant I've been wanting to go to.
I can't tell you how happy I am #1 is done. The last semester of his senior year he developed a bit of a ditching problem. Of all the classes he had, only one was mandatory for him to be at. The other day I received a phone call from the school district with the phone number they use for messages to parents. In seeing the number on the caller ID I immediately thought "how many classes did he miss today"? No more will I have to worry about that, my other children love school and the whole educational process.
I've got this thing down verbatim:
"Hello, this is _________ High School; your son or daughter was absent or very late to one or more classes today. If your child needs to be excused please call the attendance office. (new voice) The student in question is a 12th grade male, and was absent from (whatever he ditched that day)."
We learned a long time ago that the world of academia was not for #1. We spent several thousand dollars on tutoring, and even more on private schools for the first 8 years of his education. Eventually we accepted the fact that that was not him and it never would be. He is one who likes to take things apart and put them back together. He is currently working at a well paying job until he figures out what he really wants to do. Sometimes it's best to step back and not pressure our children into things we want. We could have saved ourselves ALOT of money and much anguish as well if we would have accepted that early on. Lesson learned.
Better go, much to do. Take care, hope to blog tomorrow.
I think I see the problem.....the kids got really insecure after you named each of them, Unplanned #1, #2 and #3.
I called my first two girls everthing but their name and I called the last girl by her name but she wanted to be called Cat instead of Catherine. I never did do that, but everyone else did. I wish I'd have thought of the Unplanned system - would've been great!
Cool day of shopping and bonding. And spending.