The Happy News thread

[Distracted]

My 26 year old son is now (finally ) a college graduate! As of today he is the proud holder of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in Social Studies. He graduated with a 3.0, which is pretty darned impressive considering how badly he messed up before he figured out what he really wanted to do. Apparently what he really wants to do is to teach middle-schoolers. Go figure.

[justTripn]

Congratulations D.!

[Alelou]

That's excellent. Hope he gets his wish (and can handle those hormonal creatures).

[Weeble]

Marvelous news Alelou. You are allowed to be proud.

[Alelou]

You mean marvelous news DISTRACTED.

(And it gives me hope I may have some of my own someday...)

[Asso]

My 26 year old son is now (finally ) a college graduate! As of today he is the proud holder of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in Social Studies. He graduated with a 3.0, which is pretty darned impressive considering how badly he messed up before he figured out what he really wanted to do. Apparently what he really wants to do is to teach middle-schoolers. Go figure.

[Linda]

Teaching middle school? That will keep him busy. And if he gave his parents a hard time at that age, it will be poetic justice, I think.

[Distracted]

His childhood years were challenging. Not deliberately so, but parenting a child with ADHD is never easy. It breaks your heart to see the things they go through, getting tormented by peers and misunderstood by teachers... and all the repeat trips back to school to deliver forgotten items and the last minute scrambles to help him complete forgotten assignments took their toll. But he was a loving child who never meant any harm and now he's a well-intentioned and idealistic man with lofty goals that I pray he will attain. After all the struggle it's both frightening and a relief to be forced to step back and let him take full control of his future.

[Eireann]

Many congratulations, Distracted. There's not much worse than having to cope with what a child who's in any way 'different' goes through in school - it fairly tears your heart out, how cruel other kids can be. However, he and you got through it, and now you can look forward to a happy future! Well done to him, indeed!

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

That's great news, Dis! Congrats!

[Weeble]

Gotta start wearing my reading glasses more often...

Congrats Dis, please apply heartfelt previous post to you.......

[Alelou]

My son has ADHD too, along with a dollop of depression and anxiety, just like his dad. It's kind of ironic that I was glad we were moving to a state with rigorous standardized tests to keep the schools honest when now I can't help thinking that he'd be doing so much better if he'd grown up like I did, in states without them.

Anyway, he's a genuinely nice kid with a better head on his shoulders than he thinks he has, and I suspect a year of working low-wage jobs might persuade him that it's time to reconsider going to college.

[Asso]

I think you're right, Alelou.
Life is often a great teacher (although, sometimes, it tends to be a little malignant).

[Weeble]

I'm not dead! Think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fishing Trip was fun, my cousin came up from Texas the day I got back and leaves tomorrow. We have been having a blast. I will be rejoining things shortly. He's napping so i'm typing.

Weeble
PS Dis, He is currently living in Orange Texas just across the border from ya! Wave on Monday as he drives by....

[Distracted]

I'm actually in Lake Charles, LA this weekend, which is less than an hour from Orange. : )