Oh WHEN will I stop getting stressed because my teen is late for college?!

[BohoHobo]

She was late almost daily for 2 years at school and two weeks into college and she has been late twice, today is the third time.

I know I need to chill and let her face the consequences but if the consequences mean she fails her A levels and doesn't go to Uni in 2 years, I may not be responsible for my actions

[Limara]

My DS (13) has just been put on report (his 9th), for lateness. Strewth! There is NOTHING you can do. They make their own choices.

Rob Parsons- an author once put it, ''Don't read the scores at half-time'' meaning she still has time in her life to study. DYKWIM?

[chiara100]

Each morning my 14 year old son gets out of bed at 6.45 (reluctantly but on time), slumps over his breakfast, shoves a few things in his bag, just about makes it to the front door in time to make it to his train then says 'oh, I just need to get something from upstairs' and DISAPPEARS for ages. By the time he gets downstairs again he is too late to make it to the train, I am almost exploding with anger, my husband is yelling at me to let him take the consequences of being late then I have to watch him walk up the road at the speed of a snail (and I don't exaggerate). AAAAGH it drives me demented!

[DandyDan]

Ans = you won't.
Now one of mine is off to uni, and I just have to hope they get themselves to lectures on time, after two A level years of last-minute-ism and lateness.

[mumeeee]

I used to stress about DD2 getting out on timew for college and used to knock on her door to get her up. I learnt in the second year of college just to let her get on with it although I still worried. She finished college with 2 A's and a C in her A levels. She is now just about to start her second year at uni. She still leaves getting up until the last minute ( not a morning person).
But she pased her first year at uni.
DD3 is 18 and I stil worry about her getting up late but she always seems to get out and catch the bus on time. She's dyspraxic and our youngest so I seem to wory about her a bit more but she is much beter at getting out then her sister was.

[BohoHobo]

Ah thank you all, you made me both laugh and feel relieved its Not Just Me!

I am very much a morning person, which definitely does NOT help! I am normally quite chilled but this tardiness really gets to me for some reason!