Parenting is difficult and it doesn’t come naturally for me. For the first few years of his life I pretended to be his babysitter. I know sounds bad but I was the best damn babysitter ever. I just couldn’t deal with that responsibility. He has MI also with PDD

I bribe my kid to get good grades. He's only interest is role playing at least he goes to D&D at the library. He has about 16 friends from the co-ops and library. We struggle with all the things other homeschoolers do vs. what we do, He is not athletic at all. The boy doesn't even know how to swim and we live in FL. He plans to be a video game programer but got an 1130 SAT (He needs a 1300 to even have a chance.). Until he was bribed he was a C/D student. Now of course he’s an A student. I wish I bribed him sooner. He has too many chores and I have a short fuse. I’ve only ever yelled at him and time out (never raised a hand to him) He’ll easily tell anyone/everyone that he’s scared of me which makes me sad. He’s currently dual enrolled at some point he needs to volunteering to even have a chance at going to a university. College is coming up fast and I feel ill prepared. I’m trying my best and I hope he forgives me when he gets older like I did my parents. He gripes about going to be at 11 and getting up at 8-9 am. He’s a great kid (despite us raising him) compared to myself or my husband. As my parenting journey comes to an end I’m sad I did not enjoy it more.