I now have a 16 year old with soon to be purple hair that can drive, albeit not very well. 

"But Mom.....I only hit one tree and it wasn't the actual trunk I hit." she said earlier this summer when practicing on our country property.

Thank goodness they don't allow them to get tatoos in the local parlours at that age, that's all I can say.

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Yesterday when my 14 year old was asked to open the window at school by her teacher she struggled until the teacher had to come over and show her how to work the mechanism.

"It's a good thing you're pretty." she told her;-)

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My 16 year old raised her hand in class yesterday and asked if the whole test they would be having today was going to be Multiplication.  This was in Law class;-0  She later told me they all laughed and she wasn't sure why until she realised she meant to say multiple choice.
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I learned at the last parents council meeting at our elementary school that cursive writing is no longer part of the curriculum and that they also don't plan on adding keyboarding lessons stating that the kids pick up their own method of keyboarding on their own.  We've started working with the little ones at home to assure that they can read and write cursive.  The schools feel that cursive writing is no longer necessary and is on it's way out.  We were also told that in the next few years kids would have "notebooks" in school and not need to write at all.  What are they supposed to do until then? one parent asked.  The Principal didn't have an answer.

God help us all.