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And the children of helicopter parents.

Our learning center on campus now helps kids learn to wake up for class on time since they have never had to do it themselves.  And has a stash of bed-vibrating alarm clocks to help.  

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Also, we teach on labor day but there is no administrative staff here today. It took me 10 minutes to find the hallway lights. Professors are pathetic creatures.

[devonpow]

I know it's ridiculous to have to teach kids that, but I must say the thought of my kids sleeping past 6 AM/ our family needing an alarm clock in any way makes me giddy, lol

[ashleydl83]

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Sept 1, 2014 7:50:15 GMT -5 devonpow said:

I know it's ridiculous to have to teach kids that, but I must say the thought of my kids sleeping past 6 AM/ our family needing an alarm clock in any way makes me giddy, lol

LOL! Yes, I dream of needing an alarm clock.  I do not dream of sending my kid to college incapable of waking themselves up.  

[imimahoney]

Sept 1, 2014 7:47:12 GMT -5 @thadsrad said:

Also, we teach on labor day but there is no administrative staff here today. It took me 10 minutes to find the hallway lights. Professors are pathetic creatures.

You have to teach on Labor Day? How lame, I'm sorry.

[formerlyllizzyb]

The most shocking thing about this post is that you teach on Labor Day!

(Because I'm a teacher and very aware of the helicopter parent epidemic, ugh)

[lynzee21]

I wonder how many of their parents will still call them every morning to make sure they are awake.

I always had class on Labor Day in college.

[dixeedeluxe]

I never had to wake up myself. Well, my mom tried but I never did. She'd take all my pillows and blankets and trunw music on and have my sisters sit on me.

I learned how to wake up without a class. They should stop being a helicopter school! Let em learn and fail, geeze!

[spaghetticat]

No. No way.

I remember being shocked we had class on LD when I was in college.

[lolaburns]

That is bizarre. I remember having an alarm clock in middle school. I actually liked it better than my sing-songy morning person mom waking me up because you know....teen angst.

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Sept 1, 2014 8:07:07 GMT -5 pinksapphires said:

Please. Please. Please tell me this isn't for college aged students.

I can't tell you that.  It would be a lie.  

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Sept 1, 2014 8:29:03 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

I never had to wake up myself. Well, my mom tried but I never did. She'd take all my pillows and blankets and trunw music on and have my sisters sit on me.

I learned how to wake up without a class. They should stop being a helicopter school! Let em learn and fail, geeze!

HA! Not going to happen.  Retention rates are everything.  

I'd much rather they give them vibrating alarm clocks than tell me to grade nicer.  They can still fail.  

[browndog]

This took me a minute to understand because at first I thought you were talking about Thad's daycare.

[christidee]

Wow! That is too much.

DH went to an informational program for PA school over the summer. This is a master's program. He was the only attendee there without his parents.

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Sept 1, 2014 13:32:37 GMT -5 christidee said:

Wow! That is too much.

DH went to an informational program for PA school over the summer. This is a master's program. He was the only attendee there without his parents.

No.  Oh no.  I can't even with that.  

[Beener]

Oh dear. This is scary

[honeybee503]

When I was in high school my mom got sick of dealing with trying to wake me up every morning so she just quit without telling me one day and I woke up an hour before the school day ended. Whoops.

[monkeybabe]

I never woke up on my own in HS, but figured it out quickly enough in culinary school, when I was 700 miles away from my dad. He'd just knock on my door and tell me to get decent and then move on to the next room, though. With 3 teenage girls in the house, he opened no doors, lol.

[dojo]

From the time I was in elementary school I had to set my own alarm and my mom would NEVER wake me up until the last minute so I had to scramble and feel the panic of being late (even if it was because the power went out during the night and my alarm reset). She would say to me "You NEED an internal alarm clock!" I thought it was so unfair that she expected my body to just magically wake me up at the right time even if my alarm failed. I have to say, I have an internal alarm clock now that makes my eyes pop open within minutes of whenever I need to be up. Even if it's at an unusual time. I also experience some intense dread if I think I'm going to be late and as a result, I'm almost never late. It was a good lesson.

[rainbowchip]

This makes me sad for society.