Year 12 - first half term DONE.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

new thread so we don't get lost. Well done to all our dc whether doing btech (or breach as autocorrect prefers to call it) or a levels. 1/6 of the way through this year. (blimey)

thesecond
I hope you figure this all out! Hopefully school will see he is more determined and support him in continuing his alevels.

I don't want to rain on your parade but If he was mine I would not be cheering yet.

Don't worry, from experience I've learned to take it one day at a time.

This morning he overslept (through two alarm clocks) and missed the meeting with the head of sixth form. I'm not home from work yet so not sure what happened next...

oh dear TheSecond! Still, wednesday was a good day!

Well done everyone, by hook or by crook, we've made it to the end of term. We seem to have lost a few people along the way in terms of participation on the thread. I hope that things are going well with you and your dc.

dd reckons the term has flown by. In some ways it has, in other ways it seems to have been a rather long one. This time last year we were all talking about gcse mocks and revision or results. Hard to think that was just a year ago!

Anyway and well done to all.

I'm still here! Migraines are still continuing, apparently DS got a poor end of term mark from one of the history teachers but is unsure why...... 😕
Life is ticking along, and I'm so pleased it's not as stressful as this time last year.

your poor ds. Those migraines need to stop. I hope he gets some proper feedback from his history teacher, hard to fix things when you dont know whats wrong.

derek
Dd has found with history you just need to research as much as possible and different interpretations and modern and old historians views and weave into essays and only apply statistics that strengthen your point as it's not like gcse where you can just stick them in. I hope his migraines stop
Dd has had another terrible period so doctors are investigating PCOS and endometriosis but in the mean time she's been put on the pill for pain reasons but it seems the right thing to do now she is 'serious' with her boyfriend and I suspect sex will be on the cards soon

Sorry, I meant I haven't seen the report yet. It will come out this week. I expect he was late with prep or something. He knows full well why but has conveniently forgotten.
He really needs to drop a subject, but he wants to wait until the end of yr 12
The pill revolutionized my crap periods, but in reality it wasn't until I had kids that they sorted themselves out (bit drastic at her age )

I'm still here too! Have just done a quick catch-up skim-read of the thread. Thesecond, fingers crossed that your DS will continue to feel more motivated.

DS's school broke up on Friday. No school report as we had a parent-teacher meeting just a couple of weeks ago. Everything seems to be going OK, and (to our relief) he's socialising a bit more after splitting up with his girlfriend last month.

Hope everybody is looking forward to Christmas.

yay muffin :)

Very much looking forward to Christmas. And it was ace not having to get out of bed til 8:30 this morning. Im glad your ds is settling well.

has anyone else's dc started looking at summer placements? nuffield research placements have early deadlines for some regions.

Anywhere else dd could apply for a maths/physics placement?

Hi. Head start and Etrust do some great ones. Sorry can't link! www.etrust.org.uk/headstart/courses Ooh maybe that will work!

thank you :)

TheSecond I hope your ds has actually found some motivation, it sounds like he'll have quite a lot of work to do to get himself up to speed on the things he's not been motivated to do so far.

Kitten my dd is looking at some of those, not sure how far she's got with looking/applying yet though.

You may remember that dd signed up to do a world challenge trip in the summer of 2018. She got herself a job at McDonalds before the whole NI number debacle. She still hasn't told McDonalds that her NI number has arrived so hasn't yet started working there. Tonight, after a bit of probing from me, it turns out that she's worried about raising that much money while also working on getting good grades in her ALevels. She is worried about the trip itself as she's not very good with people she doesn't know well (she doesn't know anybody who's signed up atm, even though I'm sure she'd get to know them), and she's a very fussy eater, etc. So she's thinking about withdrawing from the trip, but instead of talking to me about these worries she was just sticking her head in the sand, letting me nag her about not doing things, and hoping I'd notice her lack of enthusiasm. Bloody guessing games! So we've now looked into the cost of withdrawing and discovered that if she withdraws at any time before July she will need to pay 10% of the total cost (after July she would need to pay more), so she's going to think about it over the next month or so before she makes her decision. I'm hoping she decides to go, it would be brilliant for her, but it has to be her choice, especially since she has to raise the money. She also doesn't want to work for McDonalds (I don't blame her, it woudnt be my first choice of job either), but hasn't really looked into finding anything else because she feels she committed to McDonalds even though she hasn't started there.

Any idea how I can get dd to start making some decisions or get her to even communicate what she wants to happen?
She also hasn't got her provisional driving licence yet because she didn't post the form with her signature on it. She's left that so long that we got a refund for the money I'd paid online for it .

oh that's a challenge MrsAD, I think they get so used to not talking to us that when things go pearshaped they forget they can talk to us. I think anyone would find a trip like that daunting. If she can manage it, it will probably be the making of her, but its getting her to that point.

I guess the first thing is to get her to start at macdonalds. If she hates it after one month she can quit. Working does not mean that she is committed to the trip. She can always keep the money and spend it on other stuff. She doesnt need to know about the trip until July, so she can do her exams, then think about the trip after.

Hi all, just dropping in to say hi and thank goodness this term is over. I hope things are settling down for you second.
Kitten- ds1 had the opportunity to do one of those trips and turned it down because of the same worries.

Things have been going ok here, he hasn't done as well as he would have hoped but has missed loads of lessons due to hospital appointments but we now have (hopefully )light at the end of the tunnel. Just waiting on results from his brain scan.

Here's to a good rest and a fun Christmas for all of our dc.

'tis MrsADs dd with the conundrum :)

I hope the brain scan results produce the news you are hoping for LittleDrummer, what a difficult term it must have been.

for all!

Thanks kitten. Fingers are crossed for the all clear. He's brilliant though and staying focused on the positives and the future.

Thankfully he's also remained single.

He sounds like a great lad.

Fingers crossed for the all clear little drummer, he sounds great.

Well dd has now made the next payment for her trip. We're working on the assumption that she's going, but with the option of withdrawing if she's not managing/really doesn't want to. We have discussed working again and she really doesn't want to work at McDonald's, so she's going to look elsewhere (which would have been so much easier a couple of months ago!). She's also applied for her driving licence again, so that's something. She seems happier about it all, just having talked about it and knowing that she's not tied into it just yet and that we're not going to hold it against her if she chooses not to go. I will be disappointed if she doesn't go, partly because it's a bloody expensive change of mind (£300 not to go on a trip) but mostly because she'd be missing out on an amazing opportunity. I really don't think she would ever do anything like this again, I know I haven't since I did my 3 gap years, once you start paying rent, working, etc it becomes much more difficult to go off traveling.

Littledrummergirl I hope that it's not too long a wait for you to get the results that will (fingers crossed) tell you what you want to hear.

Nothing much happening here which is fine by me.

Lost you after GCSEs. I'll catch up on this later!!

Welcome back to us DrDM :)

Thanks everyone - I'm sure I'll update when we get the letter. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster this term. Glad to hear everyone else has had a "normal" term. It's fantastic and popping in here has kept me positive.

Do any of your dc have plans for Christmas that don't involve you/involve partying with friends?

They become your babies again when their ill little keeping my fingers crossed for you

I've never seen dd so happy recently since she's got a boyfriend, he has really helped her confidence and she seems to be doubting how she looks a lot less.

That's great Fantasy It's easy to tell them their own opinion is what's important but everyone wants to feel loved and special.
When your first love comes along it can be a real boost. As long as they remember to stick to their own boundaries.

Awww, memory lane...