Back to School Take Two

Story ID:	791
Written by:	Shannon Marie Hyle (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Diary/Journal Entry
Location:	El Dorado Kansas USA
Year:	2006
Person:	Samantha

August 21, 2006

Back to School Take Two

Today's challenge: get Samantha back to class. As always, the main obstacle in any parent-child interaction is the disparity of expectations between the two.

Our expectation was to drive to El Dorado with Samantha after work, get her schedule from the registrar, make a pay arrangement and send her off to class. She's taking Marriage and Family and Developmental Psychology.

Samantha's expectations had the same outline but stirred in a jumbo helping of stress starting with some compulsive worrying about getting there before the offices closed.

Yikes!