re: Did your mom go on your senior trip? Seems like a thing now.

There are over 7 billion people on this planet and all of them are different. I have 4 kids and I know #2 is going to be hell on wheels because she has already been involved in more social circle shite stiring as a rising sophomore then I care to indulge. She is my drama child.

My oldest has had one boyfriend who is a bigger need than her. She is a beautiful girl who was a varsity cheer leader for two years, ran track, cross country, state officer for HOSA, National Honor Society, Beta Club, and over 400 hours of signed off on community service and a faithful Christian. Her mother and I have always encouraged her to aim high but we really didn't need to as it was just her nature. We pled with her to go out more and to be more social. She only had a burning desire for her studies and her extracurricular activities and how they would effect her college resume. If you ever had that one virtuous and wholesome girl at your HS that everyone looked to as the standard for being a "good girl".....she is that girl at her HS. She wasn't sheltered by us. It's just who she is on her own.

It's kind of odd that your worldview is such that you think it is a given that 99% of teens have had alcohol and the 1% that hasn't only refrained because they must have been sheltered. My second one in line is the one I know will be the party animal like I was. My oldest is just driven and motivated by things that I never could have even taken seriously at her age and it wasn't by my prodding for sure.