Year 12 preparing for AS levels

HSM maybe they were watching one of those YouTube revision videos?

DS tells me he has 'forgotten' how to revise and can't remember what worked for him last year. I've suggested a number of things but unfortunately all of them involve actually doing some work!

Juggling, that all sounds very stressful. What was her residential thing? I am so glad DS gave up art after GCSE - having horrible flashbacks to this time last year and virtually paying my salary into the are suppliers every month.

Dd currently has her school chums round, who appear to be playing pictionary
It's lovely to hear them laughing and letting their hair down.
This week Dd has handed her notice in at her Saturday job, which was becoming too much, and started having maths tutoring again which improves her confidence. For the moment all is calm, but let's not count our chickens.

Picked DD up from her residential Easter thing yesterday and she'd had an amazing time and was so pleased she'd gone to it. Was even OK that DH & DBro had taken the opportunity to tidy her room for her a bit whilst she was away You can even see the floor now!
Am feeling a bit stressed with DS's audition coming up on Saturday the same day DH is going away for a week's trip with work. And DD wants to come with us and re-visit the museum she went to before to take more pics for her art project - and still be back in the evening to go out with friends!
So that's all a bit busier than I'd like! But I think the key is to not stress too much about the audition (much easier said than done).
He'll give it a good go, and it's all good practice right?
(It's for an Academy opportunity with residential weekends and other on-going support)

Ha ha HSMMaCM revision by osmosis! I think ds has now realised that his latent telepathic powers are not going to get him to university and has started frantically reading through notes, doing mind maps and flash cards and past papers.

Iceland seems very popular this year - I know about 10 different people who have recently gone. Must be the TV prog effect!

Spoke with DD earlier - she is revising (at least some of the time but is worried about how much there is still to do. I predict panic - stations and melt - down very soon. It's crap being on the exam treadmill.

Ive always fancied Iceland. Don't know why I've never been.

DH and I have started watching Trapped and all that grey glacial remoteness is so atmospheric.

We were wondering though why so few hats and scarves were worn.

Have a good weekend in Devon.

If none of you have run away from home by the Easter holidays then you are all good mother's.

Dd3s bedroom is the tidiest I have ever seen it. Procrastination rules.

Tis I the twins mum, have name changed again .

I have found the will to live again today!!!

Brought on partly because DC are going on DofE expedition this weekend and DH are off to Devon. Hotels booked. Also, assisted by an email about work asking how I'm getting on with the scripts and can I fly over to see the money men soon, preferably with drafts...nothing like a swift kick up the arse to make you work!!! I'm on a roll.

Draylon how's the hangover today?

Ds has gone into school for a revision session. He has all sorts of diagrams and drawings plastered all over his bedroom so at least something is happening.

I am not at home nagging encouraging, so I think I must be the worst mother!

I actually would prefer to be doing that than clearing DMs house - so much to chuck!

I'm the worst mother ever because I wouldn't let 16 year old ds attend an all night party.

Oh Draylon ((hugs)). You are not the worst mother in the world, sorry, that award belongs to me because I "made" DS go on a revision course last week (which he admitted was useful) and because I will not let his friend sleepover tonight. This friend is at college doing a BTEC and so has no exams looming. I hate sleepovers as no actual sleeping takes place and DS would be grumpier than ever tomorrow. Grrr......

At least the Iceland trip might be considered a form of 'revision' for geography?

I'm losing the will to live too Eric, DD is an expert at piling on the pressure and has presented me with her shortlist of universities, she's now added Cambridge to the list and the minimum A level grades are AAB. I'm glad she's ambitious but she needs one with lower than AAB doesn't she?
She's predicted A*AAB in her AS levels.

Well I'm officially losing the will to live!

Post Easter I generally work very few hours out of the house and am working even fewer because of DC's exams.

I am here. I am smiling. I am making cups of tea and sandwiches. I am helping with revision timetables. I am testing...I am soooooo bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Littleham. I love the idea that crossing their legs was something to complain about

DD has booked to go to a university open day There I was thinking she felt too overwhelmed to do anything.

She is still unsure about everything, but her friend is going to this open day and she decided to go too. No input from me needed.

Here is the ancient quote about teenagers but there seems some confusion as to who wrote the words.

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/

People moan about teenagers ad nauseum on the local spotted page , whatever goes wrong locally is blamed on teenagers. Apparently the drunk drivers that rampage through the town's streets are all teenagers and their parents and teachers should be ashamed of them

I just went into DD's room to get a charger since they all seem to grow legs and walk there, she's got a pile of canvasses stacked up that she's finished, a mural on her wall and numerous paintings that she's done, plus her study materials for her course - she's trained as a swimming instructor recently. But, of course, she's a lazy good for nothing teenager if you believe some. She won't be out drunk driving tonight as we're going to watch DS in a tennis tournament.

Excuse me while I go and put my soapbox away!

When I had my first child someone told me that society would consider me to be in the wrong no matter what I did.

The angel wings sound beautiful. My dc have spent a lot of time on music in a school where music is non existent. Not lazing around doing nothing. And anyway quite a lot of teens stayed in their bedrooms in past times and seem to have survived.

Some people clearly strolled out of the womb as perfect examples of humanity ready to dispense judgement on all the less fortunate creatures around them. Pah!