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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - where do things stand re: college applications? Does she have any acceptances?[/quote]

This is what I wondered about, OP.  I have 18 year old twins and they have applied to colleges early action.  One twin has been accepted to a college with lots of merit aid already.  If your DD has already applied to colleges, just help her get to the finish line to get her high school diploma.  As you know, a high school diploma is a legal document.  Does you DD want to go to college?  Even if she is not interested in college now, she needs to finish high school to get her diploma.  My boy twin is kind of like your DD.  He periodically sneaks out at night and smokes weed regularly but he is set on going away to college and stays on top of his work.  He had a bumpy start to high school but is making straight As now because he has goals and knows what he wants to major in.  Maybe if you help your DD focus on the future and what she wants to do, she can regroup and get back on track.  I do not believe in all the punishment the posters are recommending.  I don't think half of them have teenagers or young adults.  The punitive measures do not work at the late teen, early adult stage.  It will just make them angry and bitter and destroy the relationship between parent and child.  You are doing the best you can but you need to find a way to get DD back on track to complete the work for her diploma.  [/quote]

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