Class of '18 Best foot forward through the autumn leaves.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

old thread was getting big....

23rd? That’s late v

Welcome back Fantasy. Glad to hear that your DD is doing well.

ursula
She is working as a Christmas temp and that’s the earliest they allowed her to leave. She breaks up 14th

Work is good.

It’s really quite exciting! He applied without telling me and passed a telephone audition somehow! Recording is in April, broadcast TBA. He continues to surprise me, my lovely autistic boy.

Ellen that is so wonderful! Ds1 told me he applied to be on University Challenge and sat the test, only to find he couldn't complete half the questions. Then he said he noticed all the other applicants in deep thought, writing notes like Einstein on scraps of paper what he assumed to be complicated equations and calculations and realised his talents lay elsewhere..

Dd and I are doing a deep declutter and sort of her room. It is like all the hoarding programmes, she didn't know where to start, but throwing away the first bit of paper (all her GSCE revision from last year) gave her confidence to continue. But her resistance to my suggestions that she has too many hoodies is dogged. They are all like old friends to her, almost surrogate pets. And the flash cards are difficult to jettison. They represent so much work.

Reported.

Not now Gemma.

I reported it ages ago

Oh you should have said Loni I wouldn’t have bothered.

dd had a massive crisis of confidence this afternoon, everything is wrong, hates Biology but likes it everyone else is prettier, thinner, has less weird parents doesn't want to be an architect a nurse or get less than A *s in any A levels, so tired, stools in science lab are too uncomfortable...feel like I'm having a crash course in how to parent for A levels. I kept bleating how dreadful ds1 felt at this point in his A levels and just plodding on was very good. But still, is there any point to us putting them through all this stress??? long days locked in a classroom, to school in the dark, come in home in the dark...really do wonder...hmm...

after despairing she is now in very good spirits again, and enjoying her tidy room and ready to face the world again..still not convinced that Biology was the right choice though, far too many students in her class (30!!!!) Ds1 having detached himself somewhat does feel easier than this stage, ie A levels..

Aw it’s tough. Dd was fortunate in that she loved her A level subjects.

Sounds like she is just having a general grinch, will now have got over it but will leave you with another chip in the armour of your soul.

Update on DS1: my parents visited him this evening as they were passing on their way to a city a bit further up the motorway. They took him out for dinner and he was able to eat something.

They have offered to collect him on their way back home, so he can come home a couple of days early. It means missing one lecture, but to be honest I care more about his health at this point.

It sounds like he needs some TLC. Thank goidness the term has nearly finished.

What did I miss?

Spam.

Nettleskeins - actually according to DS1 I am the weirdest parent EVER

Yay for random bursary Kitten
Glad your parents could see DS the first
DS is settling into home life, we haven't seen a great deal of him, as he has had some much needed introvert time interspersed with meeting up with mates who are also already home. He is swapping between clearing out his room and studying.

I would be interested to know if some DC might find coming home for the holidays a bit of an anticlimax after all the partying with new friends at university.

Lonicera
I think my ds is really excited that someone else will be doing his washing and he can use the dishwasher!

Dd is already saying that she will be fed up after a week at home. It’s not the partying as such, just having your friends on tap. Plus we are a relatively quiet household and nowhere is within walking distance. Well, not for DD.

DS will appreciate the home comforts - food on the table, someone else carrying in the heavy diet coke bottles, a log fire, access to the household taxi (must remember to put him on the insurance over Christmas) and the in house laundry service. He does appreciate what I do more now that he has been doing it for himself which is good because in the past I've felt like the maid.

I don't know...well ds has a healthy dose of nostalgia about family christmases, and he also likes being fed and prodded awake, but...I think uni is a lot more fun for him than London. That may change of course, if some of his new friends are in London.
Ursula I love the way that your dd is clearly devoted to you, and you all get on very well, but still it remains that teenagers need a "life" away from home. Very important reminder that they have to grow up and get away and it isn't any reflection on their love for us..

Nettles. That made me snort my sherry down my nose. Not a good look. Have I given the impression she is devoted to me? I supppose she is. In her own sweet way.