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Anonymous wrote:This is seriously getting creepy to put this stuff up year after year.

Why are you so obsessed about where kids you don't know go to college?

You talk about "youth mental health" and how the college process has gone off the rails and is harming kids and then can't stop yourselves from obsessing endlessly about the destinations of strangers.

I care about the kids we *do* know. We don’t keep in touch with all of my kids’ old friends from preschool, ES, MS, various activities, teams, etc. but I’d love to hear where they’re heading.

Ask your kid or your friends from back then if you’re so curious moron.

Outside of the friends I actually keep in touch with that’d be extremely awkward.

“Hi. We haven’t talked in 5 years but where is Larla heading to college? She was always building stuff as a kid; is she studying engineering or architecture?”

but why do you need to know where some kid you haven't cared enough to check in with for 5 YEARS is doing to college?

People get busy. I don’t keep in touch with the parents of every single kid my kids have ever known.

Jeez. So many negative people try to zap the joy out of every little moment. If you don’t care, then don’t open the thread.

Join in the joy here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1299847.page

Anonymous wrote:The link to Whitman here shows no acceptances, but the one I look at on Instagram has 5 or 6 already

I think the links here are faulty

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Anonymous wrote:If you can, y’all need to start focus on finding hobbies/pursuits for the upcoming empty nester years. This college admissions stuff may be looming large now, but it’s temporary and fleeting. This needing to know and sharing where kids you don’t know have landed is weird and unhealthy. Congrats to the kids and may they celebrate their success with people who know them, instead of being discussed by strangers on this forum.

Yep, this. There are already threads discussing empty nesters. This OP should try that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is seriously getting creepy to put this stuff up year after year.

Why are you so obsessed about where kids you don't know go to college?

You talk about "youth mental health" and how the college process has gone off the rails and is harming kids and then can't stop yourselves from obsessing endlessly about the destinations of strangers.

I care about the kids we *do* know. We don’t keep in touch with all of my kids’ old friends from preschool, ES, MS, various activities, teams, etc. but I’d love to hear where they’re heading.

Ask your kid or your friends from back then if you’re so curious moron.

Outside of the friends I actually keep in touch with that’d be extremely awkward.

“Hi. We haven’t talked in 5 years but where is Larla heading to college? She was always building stuff as a kid; is she studying engineering or architecture?”

You said it so yourself. "We haven't talked in years....awkward." exactly that. So quit it.

No. It’s an easy way to have a little joy for former friends.

If that’s not something you want to do, then don’t.

Get the number of that "former friend" and let your kid talk or text that "former friend." Stay out of it busybody.

YES! Why don't you reach out? I'm sure your friends would love to hear from you. This seriously is exactly what is wrong with society today, especially places like the DMV. You won't reach out to a former friend to extend a human connection or tell them that you're thinking of them but you will stalk them in social media. ☹️

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Anonymous wrote:This is seriously getting creepy to put this stuff up year after year.

Why are you so obsessed about where kids you don't know go to college?

You talk about "youth mental health" and how the college process has gone off the rails and is harming kids and then can't stop yourselves from obsessing endlessly about the destinations of strangers.

I care about the kids we *do* know. We don’t keep in touch with all of my kids’ old friends from preschool, ES, MS, various activities, teams, etc. but I’d love to hear where they’re heading.

Ask your kid or your friends from back then if you’re so curious moron.

Outside of the friends I actually keep in touch with that’d be extremely awkward.

“Hi. We haven’t talked in 5 years but where is Larla heading to college? She was always building stuff as a kid; is she studying engineering or architecture?”

but why do you need to know where some kid you haven't cared enough to check in with for 5 YEARS is doing to college?

People get busy. I don’t keep in touch with the parents of every single kid my kids have ever known.

Jeez. So many negative people try to zap the joy out of every little moment. If you don’t care, then don’t open the thread.

There's a reason you haven't kept in touch with the parents of every single kid your kids have ever known. You don't know them anymore. And if your kids are not friends or friendly with them nor you keep in touch with their parents, why do you need to know this information?

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Anonymous wrote:This is seriously getting creepy to put this stuff up year after year.

Why are you so obsessed about where kids you don't know go to college?

You talk about "youth mental health" and how the college process has gone off the rails and is harming kids and then can't stop yourselves from obsessing endlessly about the destinations of strangers.

I care about the kids we *do* know. We don’t keep in touch with all of my kids’ old friends from preschool, ES, MS, various activities, teams, etc. but I’d love to hear where they’re heading.

Ask your kid or your friends from back then if you’re so curious moron.

Outside of the friends I actually keep in touch with that’d be extremely awkward.

“Hi. We haven’t talked in 5 years but where is Larla heading to college? She was always building stuff as a kid; is she studying engineering or architecture?”

You said it so yourself. "We haven't talked in years....awkward." exactly that. So quit it.

No. It’s an easy way to have a little joy for former friends.

If that’s not something you want to do, then don’t.

Get the number of that "former friend" and let your kid talk or text that "former friend." Stay out of it busybody.

Anonymous wrote:If you can, y’all need to start focus on finding hobbies/pursuits for the upcoming empty nester years. This college admissions stuff may be looming large now, but it’s temporary and fleeting. This needing to know and sharing where kids you don’t know have landed is weird and unhealthy. Congrats to the kids and may they celebrate their success with people who know them, instead of being discussed by strangers on this forum.

Anonymous wrote:These are public pages that get circulated every year and parents and students alike look at them whether they will admit it or not. This is social media in 2025. If you don’t care and don’t want to look, then don’t! I think there’s a natural curiosity about college acceptances that has always existed and these pages just make it more open to public consumption. The only way to avoid this phenomenon is to make the pages private or stop doing them all together.

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Anonymous wrote:This is seriously getting creepy to put this stuff up year after year.

Why are you so obsessed about where kids you don't know go to college?

You talk about "youth mental health" and how the college process has gone off the rails and is harming kids and then can't stop yourselves from obsessing endlessly about the destinations of strangers.

I care about the kids we *do* know. We don’t keep in touch with all of my kids’ old friends from preschool, ES, MS, various activities, teams, etc. but I’d love to hear where they’re heading.

Ask your kid or your friends from back then if you’re so curious moron.

Outside of the friends I actually keep in touch with that’d be extremely awkward.

“Hi. We haven’t talked in 5 years but where is Larla heading to college? She was always building stuff as a kid; is she studying engineering or architecture?”

This is just so weird because you're nosing around about what a kid is studying in college not because you care about the kid (clearly you don't or you would have contacted them over the past 5 yrs) but because you need some data point for your own research. You view the kid as a check mark. A commodity. It's just so distasteful and even more-so because you clearly don't get how weird your behavior is because your replies are tone deaf.

You have way more time on your hands if you can manage to stay in touch with all of the parents of every kid your kids have ever known. I don’t have that much time so this is an easy way to get a brief update about them. Closing the chapter of childhood.