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Whoopty Frickin Doo! The Kid will graduate on Monday.

Rags's picture

Submitted by Rags on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 11:53pm

I know, I should be excited, proud, etc......

But, I am more disappointed than anything. Once again the kid managed to under perform. I swear this kid could fuck up a wet dream. Not because he does something wrong but because he chooses to do nothing.

So, he flunked out of the amazing boarding school his mom and I provided. We brought him home for his last semester of HS and on cue he made honor role the first six weeks at the new school. He barely passed the last six weeks.

He is now on the cusp of adulthood and he still can't follow basic directions or finish a simple task. A chore that should take an hour takes all day if he ever finishes it. He can't remember a conversation he had an hour earlier. He can't stay focused long enough to actually finish a conversation. Even a very short conversation.

The licensed counselors say there is nothing wrong with him, he is intelligent and understands what he needs to do to succeed. He plays them like he does everyone else so they let him do what he wants to do instead of what he should be doing.

My wife keeps threatening that she wants to have another child. The very thought of having to do this all over again makes me at worst want to go out to the woodshed and apply the axe to my twig an giggle berries. At best the thought makes me want to go out to the garage and do bong hits off of the exhaust pipe of the lawnmower.

Okay, maybe she does not mean it as a threat and maybe the idea is not without some level of interest on my part. I love kids. I even love my skid.

But damn that kid is driving his mom and I nuts. He has to go. If he stays and lives at home it is going to cause potentially irrevocable tension in our home and in our marriage.

Of course my wife is balking at dropping him off at the Marine Corps recruiters and is hoping he will try college. There is not a snowball's chance in hell that this kid is ready for college. He could do it, he is just to F-in immature to actually do the work.

Does anyone know if Orkin or Terminex has a program to rid a home of adult size pests?

Okay, now my vent is over. I will settle down and once again be Super Dad and be Mr Happy for graduation on Monday. Somewhere during my tooth grinding observation of culmination of his wasted HS career I may even feel a twinge of pride that he actually graduated.

Whoopty Frickin Doo!!!!!

Best regards,

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KeepsGettingBetter's picture

Submitted by KeepsGettingBetter on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 11:59pm

I hear ya buddy. My BS14 is so smart yet such a waste of talent. If he paid as much attention to his school work as he does his xbox and facebook he would be a genius.

KGB
Formally known as Dani - RIP Dani Girl

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Submitted by redheaded_stepmom on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 2:15am

Same here, too! SD14 is an extremely intelligent and talented kid, but she is so damn lazy that she is not even doing mediocre in school. She thinks school is a waste of time that could be better spent hanging out with friends and chatting on the computer. She has been a master manipulator since the day I met her almost 7 years ago. She has DH wrapped around her little finger, and she knows it. She also knows I am fed up with her BS and doesn't come to me with anything anymore. I know this is terrible, but I will be overjoyed when her graduation day gets here. That gets me one day closer to getting her out of my house and out on her own where maybe she will finally learn her lesson and start putting some effort into her life.

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Submitted by stepmasochist on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:09am

Ugh, I'm so not looking forward to teenagers.

Get him in the military if you can - any branch. Except maybe coast guard, seems more like Baywatch than military.

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Submitted by BMJen on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:11am

"My wife keeps threatening that she wants to have another child" hehehehehehehehe......that sounds like a threat to me to! Wink

Be proud of that boy Rags. Shut up and smile. He's graduating isn't he? That's a hell of alot better than ALOT of kids do these days. Be proud of him, and yourself for raising him well.

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Submitted by now4teens on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:36am

Rags, you are on quite a roll today. Sometimes all you can do is laugh, especially when what you really want to do is cry.
But I hear ya. And I feel your pain.

In two weeks, I have to go to a graduation party- my nepwhew's. This kid is also a piece of work. We're getting together to celebrate his "High School Graduation/Just-Getting-Out-Of-Rehab" party.

I wonder, does Hallmark even make a card for THAT??

And the "kid's" (almost 19) only concerns are about getting his first tattoos and his piercings. Not a job. Not getting his driver's license. Responsibility, what's THAT??

Oh, this should be FUN! "Smiles everyone- fake SMILES! Pretend like we're all SO HAPPY for the little deviant."

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Submitted by JustAnotherSM on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 10:15am

Congrats Rags! Glad to hear the skid is one step closer to being a man.

I am still waiting to hear if my SS will be walking with his class at graduation next week. It's the same story here, straight A's to begin each semester and all D's and F's by the end of each term. I'm hoping he can pull off some amazing grades for his final exams.

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Submitted by bizbear on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 11:06am

Congrats for HS graduation. Same scenerio here. SD20 barely got out of HS, flunked out of college twice and has never held a job. I would encourage the military thing. I think these kids need to wake up to reality and learn what responsibility means. The military might help him to grow up.

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Submitted by buttercookie on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 2:48pm

Does anyone know if Orkin or Terminex has a program to rid a home of adult size pests?
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That cracked me up. I'm still laughing. There seems to be a strong theme around here lately of adult moochers.

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Submitted by prayerhelps on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 2:57pm

What is the deal with these kids today. Glad he is graduating. My 19yo SD graduated HS at 17, was 7th in her class---pretty much a straight A student. Goes to college, and BOMBS. Has no clue, fails so many classes that she can't get into any other 4 yr school. What in the world!!!! So what is she doing---she is a dog groomer, making minimum wage--such hopes and intellect wasted. She never had a job before that (thanks to BM and her parents, saying school is your job so don't get one).

You may try to push him to community college instead---I know of several kids who did terrible in HS and excel in college classes, so don't rule out yet.

Me, I worked all through HS, graduated with above a B average and did great in college---I think kids who have to work and see what life is about will do better, plus they understand that they don't want to work McD's their whole life w/out a degree.

My BS15 has a job this summer w/Boy Scout camp and already plans to get a job in fall up street. he will probably be the only one of older three who gets anywhere (SD17 yo still hasn't gotten a job and she is doing terrible in school), plus he makes pretty good grades, but he has to work for them.