I think you're right - but only about girls. At 17, my daughter did what yours is doing - rebelled completely. Boys are a bit different. I think they do it a little later - maybe 19 or so. But girls come back home sooner too. And I swear I am the happiest person on earth because I have a daughter. She brings me flowers on HER birthday.
The one thing I do know is that neither sex wants to be told how disappointed we are in them. They want to live at this stage of their lives and all they want from us is to listen to them. They don't want to be hassled, they don't want to be admonished, they want us to listen. We could learn so much about them if we would stop talking and just listen to them.
Gotta go make 2 cakes for tomorrow. One chocolate with chocolate frosting and one coconut with coconut frosting. Theose 2 boys are so very different. But I have the X, my daughter and her husband, and the boys for the big 18th birthday dinner tomorrow night.
FL, don't worry about responding to our stuff. Just take care of yourself and write on your own thread. We're not in your position, so don't sweat the small stuff. We have time, you don't. We don't post to you in order to get a post back. Our troubles here in the Big D are small for a lot of us. Mine are about birthday presents for crying out loud. The Big D thread (although I've read lately that we're called the "ghetto"), is not a ghetto. We're upscale if you want to know the truth.
Take care of yourself and get your head and heart ready for when you come home.
I wish you the best of luck and was so happy to hear you found a solution to your dilemma about the scholarship.
