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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't been very involved since my kids hit middle school except to give/deny permission for major stuff (including asking questions as needed in order to decide). A little bit of driving & hosting in the middle school years, but they were figuring out even the transportation bit themselves by high school. [/quote]

Wow, just wow.  So, you refuse to drive and make other parents do all the work.  There is probably a reason your kids needed to escape your home.[/quote]

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I was thinking the same thing. Who do you think providing the said "transportation"?  Some parent like me. My son will often ask me to give a ride to his friends and I am always happy to comply because it is reciprocal with at least some parents. But then there are many whose parents are checked out, and sooner or later, my son will tell me how these kids dislike their parents or have major problems with them.

Some of these children are so checked out that they are acting out at school or home. The mode they function on at all times is "defiance".  Even when defiance is not required.  Strangely enough, many of these kids have been coming to my house since ES, MS days. Their defiance is never towards me and they have always been respectful towards me.  I think even teens understand which parents are checked out and which parents are not. They are teenagers. They are not idiots. [/quote]

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