To start a SIXTH thread nobody responds to?

[AverageGayLad]

As you were

What are you lot like???

I too have a stressed teenager. Thursday and results say can't come soon enough.

Vanilla and Portia

Fingers crossed your teens get the results they want.

I don't remember getting stressed whatsoever about my results, but then I had no ambition and did nothing with my A-Levels anyway.

I suppose kids today are under a lot more pressure than I was then.

In fact, I didn't know the day the results came out

I was busy enjoying being off school and one day...they just arrived...ho hum!

Naughty toad!

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I'm sure you will be able to send your teens this soon:-

Why don't you cook him dinner, using a lot of aphrodisiac-type foods and see if that lures the poor innocent boy him into your arms?

Great idea!

Just feed the boy and let the food do the work.

Oh, I'm so glad those days are over - and the University results days as well! Sooo stressful!!!

Better

Is your daughter at University? Have you got to get her through that stress yet?

Until they bring out Pot Noodles in Aphrodisiac Flavour, I don't think din-dins is going to work. I want to lurrrrvvve him, not have him rushed to A&E on our first date!

She finished her Masters last summer, toad. She's still considering whether or not to do a PhD. She's managed to get a super job so she's in no hurry!

Umami.

Can't stand the stuff.

Just putting that out there.

It is do great to be on the other side of it - I remember well how stressful it was!

Oooh we'll done betterJunior!!!

She finished her Masters last summer, toad. She's still considering whether or not to do a PhD. She's managed to get a super job so she's in no hurry!

Crikey, what a smart daughter! Have you got the grit to get her through her PhD, Better?

Is this the stunningly beautiful one too?

As a toad, I'm already green, but could go greener still .

Thank you, Vanilla!

I've got to get AGL through his degree soon, so I'll need tips from those of you who have been through it yourselves/have helped your own offspring through it.

I have no experience of motherhood or university . Plus, I'm a different species!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure if this different species argument really holds water, toad - are the ambitions of toadlets really all that different from Homo Sapiens? Are their lives really that divergent? I think not.

Have wasted a minute of my life trying to think up a witty pun involving cane toads/ Cambridge. It's not working (shuffles off)

I'm not sure if this different species argument really holds water, toad - are the ambitions of toadlets really all that different from Homo Sapiens? Are their lives really that divergent? I think not

Interesting thoughts, Better.

I'll have to give that lot a mulling .

I suppose, even though I didn't pursue tertiary education myself, I have learned to fill up threads on MN so I have come a long way from the pond. I definitely want the very best future for my son, of course.

The world is so much more diverse than when I was a toadlet. There is no reason for toads not to get involved in all sorts of stuff that was once the preserve of Homo Sapiens only.

I can see I shall have to get a new mindset about this and let go of the old societal norm - whoever he was!

Jess

That's so frustrating, yes.

This is all I could find and it doesn't involve Cambridge.

Q: How do toads manage to lay so many eggs?
A: They sit eggsaminations!

toad eggsellent!

A man in a movie theater notices what looks like a toad sitting next to him. "Are you a toad?" asked the man, surprised. "Yes." "What are you doing at the movies?" The toad replied, "Well, I liked the book."

source: www.jokes4us.com/animaljokes/toadjokes.html

I keep getting a little pop-up at the bottom of my screen that says 'Ways to tell your pet is human'. Suddenly seems very relevant....

Yes, that's spooky!

But then this is a spooky thread.....

I don't know how to break it to AGL but there are now 1001 posts on the Fifth Thread which has put paid to his last post status there.