Last term of Year 13. Gulp.

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All welcome no matter which path your dc have chosen.

Ursula and Pearl
DD1 went to a small one last year and a couple just for a day. She likes the music but not so much the filth and behaviour!
This summer she's going to a huge one for 6 days! I have a feeling it may be her last!!

oh goodness, that's kind of you to ask Nettles. I'm managing my anxiety a bit better. Fewer middle of the night panic attacks. I'll just be really glad when the exams are over like everyone else. A third of the way there now. You'll all need to be tying me down come august so I don't end up going through the roof

dd is having various domestic skills lessons. Her washing is no longer rolled into the family washing. It's making a massive difference to our washing pile.

luckily dd can do most of her domestic chores, however she is awfully absent minded, I have on multiple occasions found dishes in the washing machine becasue dd's auto-pilot messed up!

lol!!!

Dd is pretty good at domestic chores, mainly because a) I've been paying her to clean the kitchen and bathroom for a few years b) if she doesn't like what we're eating she cooks for herself, which is often because she's a fussy bugger, and c) if her washing isn't in the wash basket by the end of Saturday she has to do it herself, so she does it herself a lot. So I'm confident she will survive, I'm less confident she will eat any vegetables or really a balanced diet at all, but she'll eat.

DD is ok with cooking, she is vegan and often cooks for herself. She will get a shock when she has to buy her own ingredients though! The project for the summer is to get her to clear up the kitchen so another person can cook after her, otherwise she might be a bit unpopular in halls. Washing is also a mystery to be solved.

Theoretically she is meant to clean the bathroom for her allowance, in practice this is not happening so that is something else to be addressed.

I am so sorry to read some of the news on the thread, particularly nettle and downey.

DS can cook he just doesn't. The same applies to washing, ironing, polishing formal shoes and a few other boring things. He'll have to sort it all out for himself next year, he will survive and Youtube will show him anything he needs to know. He's been given plenty of opportunity to use his skills and if he chooses not to do it that's up to him. I have pointed out that there is no shower fairy and if he's chosen accommodation with an ensuite bathroom then he will have to clean it. I am also not zipping over there to remove spiders.

University is good for teaching life skills, mine will be getting some hard lessons in putting things where you can find them, clearing up after yourself and keeping up with the laundry. None of this will be my problem, he will cope the same way I did when I left home but with considerably more learning resources at his disposal.

That's very well put Icouldbe. My DS1 has a lot of those skills already, I think DD is going to find it a bit harder.

DS1 is home for the weekend and mentioned how surprised someone had been recently that, as a male, he had been able to sew up a hole in his trousers! (Morrisons sells little kits with prethreaded needles by the way)

Some sad news on here, hugs to nettles and icouldbe
Welcome to any newbies! Welcome to the madhouse
Dd has had an up and down weekend in regards to health
Period is due. 3 exams this week all back to back and then 2 the week after
RS tomorrow but ethics which is the easiest paper

Evening all,

Well ds has 2 maths paper tomorrow. He is unpredictable In maths. Flew through the long hard paper in the mocks and bombed the easy Paper.

Could go either way!

Have kept news of his friend’s death from him until maths is over. Have that job to look forward to tomorrow.

Managed to help ds2 (year 9) with a big school project this afternoon. No tears from either of us which was a first. Rewarded myself with a large glass of white wine.

I don’t feel he is ready to start gcses but start them he will in September. Bracing myself for 4 more years of cajoling and revision.

Don’t know how you folk with gcses and a levels going on now manage!

Domestic skills you say? Hmm need to work on those this summer. If all goes to plan ds will be in catered halls in Nottingham Uni so the cooking lessins can start next year :)

I think washing his clothes will already be a challenge for him!!!

Can’t believe in just over 3 months those who are going to Uni this year will be leaving.

I love the solidarity and handholding on this thread. Am thinking we are all going to need it in spades come Results day and off to Uni day.

This is the last full-on week for both DS1 (four A-level exams) and DS2 (five GCSE exams) then the end is nearly in sight.

Downey I have two in Y9 so will hopefully see you on the 2020 GCSE thread.

Nearly there Third! good luck to your ds Downey. I hope he comes home happy tomorrow.

Next exam is Wednesday, then it's four in three days. That'll be tough.

DD has English Lit Tuesday, History on Wednesday and Maths M1 on Friday. DS2 has a big extra-curricular thing on Thursday too. Looking forward to next Friday already.

I'm GCSE 2019, I'll start a thread in September if no-one else has by then.

That’s a deal Third

D-Day tomorrow as in Dreaded Drama exam first thing - 4 essays in 2.5 hours, then Biology for 2 hours & Geography on Thursday! DD not looking forward to first exam at all - been asking me to mark lots of essay questions over the weekend. Raspberry I'm on the same page as you re Friday!

Ursula festival comment - so true!

Kitten glad to hear ok & anxiety a bit better.

Best of luck for this week fellow mad housers! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🍀🍀

Just four nights then it's night! Good luck to your lad tomorrow Lashings.

lashingsofgingerbeer DD did AQA geography and has no more exams for that subject. How many geography exams has your DD to do? The AQA syllabus is 20% NEA and 2 exams worth 40% each. Which exam board is she with?

Biology tomorrow and chemistry on Tuesday. DD has been revising hard all weekend, with several breaks and naps.

Good luck everyone.

Good luck to your dd Lonicera!

ds still has an exam on the 18th, so another weekend of purgatory next weekend.
He's been telling me about Frankenstein. And also about Richard III [which is NOT on his A level syllabus]
I've a headache from sunshine and too many pointy stick duties. Ds1 went off to lunch with my sister today and various relatives she had invited, so that was a tonic for him, and interestingly his work has been better for the interruption, and of course the exercise of walking somewhere not too near.
Ds2 ran the Park Run yesterday after a bit of an absence of 8 months (suddenly wanted to have teenage lie-ins). He used to be super fit for the 5k course but today he has been hobbling around as his muscles couldn't cope with a long run out of the blue, he said he can barely get up from his chair and was trying to find embrocations in the cupboard (sadly no embrocations except Lemsip and children's nurofen, very old) still, it came in handy for biology revision on respiration and oxygen to the muscles.

And I managed to miss Poldark, drat. despite being reminded. I like to watch it in Real Time on the TV, but this evening there were interruptions, like Football Aid.

Lonicera so glad the Geography is over for your dd. What a relief, and I'm sure she enjoys chemistry and biology?

So we have English prose on Tuesday (Frankenstein/Handmaids tale) History (Italy) on Wednesday and English poetry (Rosetti) on Friday. So quite a heavy week.

The History paper is the worry this week as this is DD's weakest area of history. So many dates to learn. She has been revising hard all weekend though.

I don't like to wish away time but my goodness the 19th June feels like an eternity away!!

Forgot to say Good luck to all for the week ahead!

Thank you Kitten

Lonicera she is doing Edexcel so 20% of marks based on 4,000 word field trip study analysis & then three exam papers like Biology - Geog Paper 3 is in the format of a resource booklet I think & examines their whole syllabus knowledge within context of resource questions. Best of luck to your DD for Biology & Chemistry.

Busy weekend Nettles!

My head is pounding with too much information! I've spent the whole weekend switching between War of the Roses with DD1 (A Level History paper 2) and homeostasis, DNA, carbon cycle and the Theory of evolution with DD2 (GCSE biology paper 2).
It's a big week ahead for them both so they've been working flat out (and sharing me between them for quizzing, an hour each at a time using Alexa as timer. We've had to be extremely strict or the house would have turned into a battle zone!)
DD2 has 3 sciences (2 of which are hopefully A level subjects so feeling the pressure) plus maths and psychology (another A level option) this week, one per day then she's done! 🎉
DD1 has the dreaded 2nd History paper on Wednesday, although so far seems much calmer than last week.
Then maths on Friday.
The following week is her busiest with 2 maths and 2 French exams.
But History and Biology definitely seem to be the heaviest subjects for each of them content-wise, hence my weekend as quizmaster.
I will definitely be looking forward to on Friday!

Good luck to all with exams tomorrow 🍀

Special thoughts for your DS Downey, I hope Maths goes well for him, will be thinking of you both and the dreadful news you have to deliver