Honor Roll

[ggiese]

Just got back from attending an awards ceremony.

Got to watch my son get called up on stage and stand with the rest of the honor roll students in his freshman class.

He's working on his eagle scout merit badge and made the JV wrestling team this year.

This proud papa is smoking a Carlito GOF with a smug grin while I type this .

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BASTID, I say!!! My kids working on a green Mohawk and maintaining a stellar 1.5 GPA!!!

Now if video games was graded...



Congrats, I'm envious!!!

[Baron Porthos]

That is awesome! My kids therapist says he has great potential.

[WOXOF]

Congratulations desert rat. You sound very proud, and should be. Good kids are getting harder to come by these days.

[Newfie]

Congrats to your son DR.

My daughter was a little bit of trouble in high school. Every boyfriend she had was a loser (IMHO) including her Fiancee now. (I think we're going to adopt him because brother and sister can't get married!! )

Anyway, she did finish high school with a pretty lousy average and went straight to the work-place in a plastics plant because her marks didn't qualify her for anything. Leave it to say it isn't all she thought it's cut out to be, and after getting laid off, and almost having to claim bankruptcy at the ripe old age of 22, mommy and daddy came to the rescue with financial aid.

She's now ready to graduate from a local college at the top of her class in Accounting!!

Sometimes they see the light and turn around.

[basil]

Congrats to your son DR!

George, I feel for ya bro - here's hoping he sees the light like Newf's kid did.

[CgarDan]

Congrats DR,

Looks like your son has it just right - Good grades and sports going for him

[bigpoppapuff]

good job with the kid,rat.....

my youngest son turns 18 in july and graduates in june....his mother,the anti-Christ,abandoned him in january...he's been living with one of his sisters (an ex-stepdaughter of mine)....so after not being a big part of his life for the past 14 years,i'm being his dad again.....i told him yesterday that after the rough time i had last year healthwise...then the incident with his mom in january...it's as if God made this all happen...i'm going to do what i can to help him be a success...but he has an equal responsibilty....he thanked me for stepping up for him the past four months......kinda choked me up......luckily for all...his grades are fine and he'll start college in september....we,as dad's, do what we can do.....you done good....i hope that some can say the same for me...

[ggiese]

Congrats to your son DR!

George, I feel for ya bro - here's hoping he sees the light like Newf's kid did.

My son is a great kid - everyone loves to have him around - parents want to adopt him - friends call all hours of the day and night - he has an incredibly sweet and nice girlfriend - he just has a bit of a strange sense of priorities. I think he'll do just fine, but I think he's always going to have to work at it because he's always creating a hole for himself. I just wish he'd use his efforts more effectively - like being an Eagle Scout and getting A's in his classes...

[basil]

My son is a great kid - everyone loves to have him around - parents want to adopt him - friends call all hours of the day and night - he has an incredibly sweet and nice girlfriend - he just has a bit of a strange sense of priorities. I think he'll do just fine, but I think he's always going to have to work at it because he's always creating a hole for himself. I just wish he'd use his efforts more effectively - like being an Eagle Scout and getting A's in his classes...

I know - my second oldest has hair past his shoulders, listens to (and plays on guitar, quite well) a sub-genre of music - black metal. The musicianship of some of these bands is pretty amazing, but the lyrics'll blow your hair back. He's a great kid too. He's just choosing to walk a rockier path.

[Desert Rat]

Congrats, I'm envious!!!

Thanks for all the posts Dad's, and for those whose sons are struggling, I am not so smug as to have forgotten my teen years.

Needless heartache for my self and everyone around me while I went through adolesence. I know there is a huge distance from 14 to adulthood.

Hearing about sons that struggle makes think "relieved" would have been a better choice of words and a little closer to the truth than "smug".

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