The teenager and his girlfriend saga continues… long sigh.
I’m pretty sure this is his first love and what would be considered a serious relationship by high school standards. Now that she has been in the picture he is suddenly showing an interest in college. The girlfriend has helped him set up a college board, she is helping him prep for SATs, she is helping him with college application questions that he has he has college application questions? hallelujer thank you Jesus!, and she is even going with him tomorrow for registration at the butt ass crack of dawn to ensure he is taking all the ‘right’ classes for his senior year.
The mister and I have been talking to the teenager about college since kindergarten. We have bought every resource possible, we have taken him to therapy and doctors, pastors, priests, local bums, anyone who could give him some damn insight, we have invested in tutoring, we have spent hours on end talking to him and trying to figure out what in the hell was going on with him. We are the ones who have cried ourselves to sleep out of frustration and screamed at each other because of it too. School, school, school, is all that has been beaten to into his head and it was met with resistance each time like Lil Wayne to light, oh wait that’s Gremlins, same difference.
This kid spent the last six years of school not applying any effort or barely enough to get by. He has been lazy, which a to quick to label school psychologist wanted to deem as slightly ADHD. Bullshit. Now all of sudden this little pop tart comes into the picture and in less than three months she does what the mister and I have been trying to do for almost fourteen years?!?!
WHAT THE FUCK? What the hell is happening here?
Oh screw it! Who am I kidding? I love her. No, really, I love her. If she can get this boy motivated and into college I will buy her a damn car!
I need a drink.
I have 3 girls, including a 15 year old soon to be high school sophomore cheerleader. She stays fairly motivated and I'm proud of her. She does have a friend who is a boy who isn;t very motivated but she's keeps him interested in his school work.
ReplyDeleteSo, what I;m saying is, at that age, chicks are smarter than dudes. Let this pop tart help. Then kick her to the curb once he gets into college.
oh...and Hi...thanks for the google+ circle and hoprefully twitter follow ( @TlanceB)
oh that pop tart so has my blessing! LOL. thanks for the insight. i just followed you over in twitterville :).
ReplyDeleteHa! Why, why, why is everyone else in their life so much more powerful than we are. So unfair. My son is 9 but I could easily see him falling into similar patterns to your son. At which point I will also make room for the pop tart who knocks some sense into him at our dinner table. Ugh!
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