My Child and Her Best Friend Aren't in the Same Classes--Should I Be Happy?

The class schedules for 2011-2012 arrived today and my child is thoroughly (or as my daughter would say, "literally" - this generation uses the word literally like waaaay too much) miffed that she and her best friend Brittney won’t be in the same home room, social studies nor science class this year. OMG! The planet is going to stop rotating on its axis.

I’m actually a bit relieved, if not hapy, at this news, and so is Brittney’s mother. My daughter has ADHD so she doesn’t need any further distractions in the classroom, and she and Brittney were continuously in trouble last year for chit chatting during classes anyway.

However, you would have thought we were moving half way around the world or something when they learned of their classroom assignments. It was like an episode of Glee, I thought one of them was going to break out in Whitney Houston’s, “I Will Always Love You.”

My daughter was crying and so was Brittney!

Ladies! Please! Develop a pair and stop. Brittney stated, “It’s not like we won’t be friends anymore. We’ll still see each other at the bus stop.”

We’ll always have Paris… Meanwhile, we can see Brittney’s house from our back yard, and they spend every waking moment together. Too funny. Don’t ever underestimate teenage drama.

They were so forlorn that I offered to take them shopping together for school supplies. Within minutes of arriving at Kmart, we ran in to Jake S. - only the hottest boy in school! OMG! I literally can't believe it! We are so lucky. Turns out, they share more classes with him than each other. Suddenly, the best friends forgot all about not sitting together in Biology.

Weird, but at least I can be happy their teenage crisis was resolved.