So, DH finally got email about first semister grades we've been waiting a month for. She simply states her GPA no class by class grades no real confirmation. Just her word -- which is worth nothing these days.

Then, she says that DH will owe $150 in late fees for missing the tuition deadline. HUM, we were never informed of when to pay by the school or SD. So, because SD is completely irresponsible, we owe $150 on top of $3000. That's nice.

SD was home from college for 30 days. We saw her 6 of them. She packed up all her nice goodies she got for C-Mas on about the 27th and we never saw her again.

She insulted an entire room of relatives when she made comments about how much better her private college is. Most everyone else in the room went to or is currently going to the very reputable local university. "Bs & Cs at her school are like As at our school"

We've yet to see her grades. Obviously they are bad. 30 days after finals and she still claims to not have them.

I've had much success with googling info on skids. Plenty we would have never known if I hadn't. Here's some things I do regularly to keep an eye on them.

Check "History". Find out where they are going. Many kids don't know how to delete the history, so see where they are going and look at it.

When you give your children computer access make it clear to them that they should have NO expectation of privacy. I wouldn't let mine have an email account that I couldn't access but that's another story with skids.

First year away from home for college. "Insistant" not to come home for T-Day even though she's only 3 hours away. She didn't even bother to call her dad let alone anyone else.

I was proud of hubby that he didn't call her either. Usually he gives in and would never know what she would have done.

Also, parents day at college came and went (we found out after the fact) and she never bothered to call him to tell him.

Please keep in mind that outside of the SD's irrational thoughts, there're NO problems between us.