If he gets into IMSA, the transition to college shouldn't be too bad. IMSA is a publically funded magnet boarding school. I would think the transition from boarding school to college would be easier than living at home to college. Plus IMSA is a 10-12 grade school that accepts kids both at the end of 8th grade and the…

I did. I was barely 11. I was also taking ballet. There is no way to do ballet in a leotard and tights and a pad. Tampons it was, and I never looked back. The only time I've used pads is for the bleeding after childbirth, and they suck!!

Thanks! I've actually lost a friend over all of this(but I also made a new one). She and my son were good friends, but her son was special ed. She thought that there was no way things were anywhere near as difficult for me as they were for her. My new friend has an autistic son a year older than my son. She was the…

The high school isn't in my area. It is the only one like it in the state. It is a state funded, magnet, boarding school located about an hour and a half NorthEast of my town in a suburb of Chicago. It is competitive entry, so there are no guarantees. I was one of those unmotivated kids in high school. A B in an…

I've tried to be very careful about that with my son. He was the one who wanted to skip a grade. He was bored to tears, literally, in the lower grade, and had more friends in the grade above anyway. I just want him to be happy. Right now he enjoys music, theatre, and dance, just as much as he enjoys math, science, and…

It is very hard to deal with as a parent, and I was a gifted child myself. My 10 year old son was already one of the youngest in his class with a late July birthday(Sept. 1 cutoff for K in my state). By the start of second grade he was bored to tears, literally. He was coming home in tears 3 or more days a week. Math…

And contraception is not 100% effective. All 3 of my children were concieved while I was using contaception. I was on the pill when my oldest was conceived. My middle child was conceived when a condom came off during pull-out. My youngest(currently 22 weeks along) was conceived while using a condom that had no…

Good luck yourself. I wish I would have questioned my marriage sooner. I lived too long with the abuse. I don't regret my kids though. Never them. I'm 22 weeks now, and still very few people even know I'm pregnant, although most people know I'm getting a divorce. I'm starting to think people are blind, and I'm…

Awesome dads FTW! The kids all adored my dad. On game days he would wear red pants, a white shirt, red suspenders with school buttons all over them, a red blinking bowtie and a red 10 gallon hat. The school colors were red and white. He had a few other variations of the same outfit(white pants, red hat etc.). Every…

My dad was the 7th grade science teacher at my school(and had been tenured for ages by the time I got there). My 8th grade year a new, much disliked principal decided to abolish the 8th grade in school Halloween and Christmas dances. My class decided to launch a silent protest on Halloween. A handful of people brought…

I posted a pic of my daughter at 9 months earlier. She looked so much like her older brother she was frequently mistaken for a boy. Not so much now at 2 and a half.

Here is my cutie at about 9 months old. She's 2 and a half now.

My son took(and still takes at age 10) dance, but never liked any sport. One season of wrestling was all I was ever able to entice him to try.

Well, my dance teacher as a kid was a retired professional dancer. After career ending injury and having two children, she could no longer perform most of the moves, but she could choreograph, and she knew what it should look like. She hired older advanced students to help with the younger kids classes for…

I thought the same thing. And some of us white girls with super thick and curly hair veer dangerously close to an afro puff on hot humid days without any product in our hair. My dad and one of his brothers were the only white boys(Slovenian heritage) in the late 60's early 70's in town that could grow afros without a…

The Jane Lynch comments were in character for her role in Glee(Sue Sylvester).

If they take out the complexity from the songs, this movie will move into the never see category for me(unless Bernadette Peters is the witch of course).

They also predict based on occupation. I was warned by a couple of lawyers and quite a few librarians that I would likely be picked for a jury if I was ever called and had to appear because I was librarian when I started grad school. Neither side usually objects to librarians because they expect them to be impartial…

It resonated with me as well. I have never been in a physically abusive relationship, but I am currently in the process of divorcing my verbally and emotionally abusive husband of almost 11 years. It took a new, close friend with a background in social work, to make me realize the poisoned water I was swimming in. And…

I was a 38H and then lost weight and am now a 36I. It sucks. The only place within an hour drive of me that I can get any bra in my size is a local boutique. The cheapest bra I found was $70. And there were only 3 styles that fit me because I have short distance from the top of my breasts to my neck/shoulders. And all…