Meli_H
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Meli: your mom sounds awesome. The only reason I made it to state is because I was part of a relay team where we had one girl who was super fast. Sadly, she ended up getting expelled from school a year or so later because she got caught shoplifting and with Catholic schools just because you did something bad during your free time didn't mean you weren't subject to punishment.
vegas,
in hindsight, my mom was awesome...but of course I didn't recognize/appreciate it at the time! All I knew was that she was strict and mean with high expectations...and that's EXACTLY the same way I will be with my child (and the way I am with DS!) lol. Well, I don't try to be mean, but I know that's how kids perceive it. And that's ok with me!
your poor teammate. One slip up and she was a goner. I hope that didnt send her down a worse path?! Sometimes that happens, ya know? I thought my school was strict!? I remember as a freshman, a sophomore got pg. They took her out of school until she gave birth, then she came back to finish up the end of her junior and her full senior year. I don't know about you, but if that had happened to ME, my parents would have pulled me out of private school and never sent me back! (I imagine the 'never sending me back' part would not have been a punishment to me lol) I can imagine the conversation something like this "you made the decision to have premarital sex so now you will pay the consequences. Your life is no longer about you. It's about your child. We will help you as much as we can but this is your responsibility. You will no longer have a social life. We will not babysit for you to go out and have fun".
Geesh, anybody surprised I waited til I was 40 to want to get pg?

About 5 years ago, my mom told me "You DO know that it's ok to get pg now, right?!" HA! She's such a joker.