Please talk some sense into me! Am feeling jealous of ds' peers starting indepndent schools!

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I went to a great school - very well known in Scotland. I loved it from start to finish.

Ds is about to start school in August and wil be going to a lovely, tiny rural primary with 5 other children in P1.

But today when I picked him up at nursery, one of his group was wearing the school uniform for my old school. I had almost a physical reaction to it and nearly filled up. I've been feeling a bit sick ever since and I can only assume it's jealousy.

I'm aware that ds will get a great education in the state system - particularly in the primary school he's about to start.

Dh and I will never be able to afford an independent education for our children. I'm obviously comparing buildings/resources/teachers/children constantly. I'm aware that I have to just deal with this attitude or I'll get myself into trouble.

Tell me to be happy with what I've got. Tell me the grass isn't greener (even though it looks pretty lush IME)

Also Ds has a few issues atm and is seeing an EdPsych. I'm always wondering what a better resourced, better funded school could do for him.

In fact that's interesting. In Blood of the Isles which I'm reading which is about our genes etc it describes how in general men came here and took the local women - so you get all those y chromosomes from Norway etc breeding with the women here and that pattern is all over. Men from Europe went to South America and bred hugely with the locals. Girls were offered up to conquerors etc. If now instead girls are going forth abroad that will be a different form of... nt this point isn't working. They don't exactly spread their seed and impregnate in the same way. Women can't quite have as many children as Genghis Khan did.

lol at Genghis Khan finding his way onto this thread

Must be nice having the brood back at home, however temporary. Do they all get on well?

He scattered his seed far and wide. There's a restaurant in London they were giving free meals at if you could prove you descended from him. We have got slightly off the point although some special needs are in our genes and I was reading in the Times recently an artilce by Dr Stuttaford who suggested if we worked out what genes cause bi polar disorder, mania etc and breed out children who may have got that before they are conceived then you also get rid of the genius that also goes with those very lows and manic highs and what impact would that have - he then names various famous people with the condition - Churchill etc.