Senior year of HS is your last chance as a mom to have a direct influence on your son. At least we like to think we still have an influence! Do you wish you'd done something differently to prepare your son for college, like laundry, cooking, paying the bills, etc.?
One thing I wish I would have done for my son might sound silly, but became an issue when he left for college.
I wish we would have required him to wake himself up for school in HS, using his own alarm and his own back-up system. We all got up at the same time when he lived at home and I just banged on his door to wake him up (sometimes more than once!).
My son is not sleeping well in college and I think a big part of it is worrying about waking up on time. He wakes up several times through the night, thinking he's late for school or morning workouts. During the fall they reported at 5am for baseball conditioning, three days a week. He keeps waking up in the dark and thinking its 4:45am ... time to report to conditioning! This interrupted sleep is hard on him.
He has an alarm clock and a back-up alarm on his cell phone, but if he had been in the habit of waking himself up, things might have been smoother. We're letting him "sink or swim" and learn to adjust to this new responsibility, but I admit that we called him during finals week and became his back-up safety net! I didn't want him worrying about missing a final! He's got so much on his plate right now!
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Can you believe that!! She actually didn't understand that you would take that coat to the cleaners... she was ready to just purchase another one! Her mom seriously felt as though she'd prepared this young lady for living in the real world. She told my friend "I guess I forgot to cover drycleaning". 
