Thread 19 - Corona Cohort, Enrolling on Year 13, hopefully NOT unlucky for some

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Oh I didn’t know about the 18+6 months thing, that’s good at least gives them time to to get the second dose sorted, assuming they all become eligible for a second dose once they hit 18.

I was wondering that about the exams too, in my case thinking about my younger son who won’t turn 16 until June so right when his GCSEs are happening so no chance of getting vaccinated before then if today’s news is anything to go by

@Fiddlersgreen once they have had the first jab you can log on to "manage my vaccination" using their NHS number and book the second. DS is an April birthday, but I have booked a second jab for him.

My concern about the second dose though is the gap. The 16and 17 year olds are only meant, at present, to have one dose. By the time this is changed, the gap for many will be too long...

@Fiddlersgreen I couldn't book ds1 for second vaccine (he's 20) because I didn't know his nhs numbers. His date of birth and postcode wouldn't bring him up. But as I have the vaccine letter for ds2 I typed in his nhs and can book second vaccine. Though as his chest was tight after for a few days he is saying he doesn't want another vaccine. But I will book one.

I meant booking online for vaccine.

Dd1 is 18 next month so I'm assuming she'll be able to get her second dose sometime around then (she had the first jab 3 weeks ago). But some actual concrete info would be good!

No idea for dd2, who is 16 and had hers last weekend.

(Incidentally, am I the only one with TWO dc in 6th form this year? I've searched for a similar thread to this for year 12 but can't find one. Maybe I should start one...)

I think there has been a year 11 support thread, so they may not have changed their name yet to year 12. What's the age gap between your DCs?

@ZittiEBuoni - I have 2 in 6th form. DS2 is no 3 so I feel like I've mainly got stuff covered with him. And he has been an easy child so far...

Ah yes, good point about maybe looking for a y11 thread that hasn't changed name yet. I'll do that.

21 months between them - I've always quite liked having them following so closely in each other's footsteps but the Covid-linked antics with exams has not been a good time for this!

There is only 16 months between my sister and me. In my case, that was not particularly good! We actually went to different schools in the end. She bullied me at primary school!

Oh no PiggyWasPushed, that must have been horrible for you. A friend had a 12 month gap between dc and in her case it was the younger who bullied the elder! So I know I've been lucky in escaping similar issues between my two.

SandyBayley Giving you the two-dc-in-6th-form high five - glad it's not just me. Are they in the same 6th form? Mine aren't....

There’s a brand new block called Battery Park in Selly Oak.

DD was one of the first residents of the newly-opened Battery Park in 2019. Ninth floor flat on the 'Sainsbury's car park roof' side of the building, but the vista also included lots of trees, which was nice.

In terms of safety, DD and her friends would normally use Uber to travel home. She would also say, don't walk along the canal at night (pertinent if living at Battery Park, as the side not attached to Sainsbury's car park is right alongside the canal), but whether that is because of the preponderence of 'undesirables', or from a general safety point of view (lack of lighting and the risk of falling in if a little inebriated), I'm not sure.

Some of the houses let out to students in Selly Oak have been very nicely done up, btw - DD's may have been of the unreconstructed variety, but DS1's second year house had been converted to all en suite, as had the house his partner was in the year before last. Admittedly, one of the bedrooms in that one was about half and half 'shower room pod' and 'everything else' space, but the house was very smart inside.

Piggy, there’s no gap between me and my sister (twins!) and she has bullied me my entire life.

That’s good to know @MarchingFrogs. My DD and her friends are very concerned about safety.

Oh dear also. I used to teach non identical boys in the same class who openly hated each other.

@Piggy and @Piggywaspushed How do you get on with your siblings now?

Sorry I meant and @Alsoplayspiccolo

Thanks Delph for PS video. I found it very interesting.

She is across the Atlantic, so literally and metaphorically distant!

I always feel a sense of de ja vu on this ongoing thread. The amount of similarities between posters dc and now it's the similarities in their direct siblings. It feels weird saying "me too" but literally I too have a similar experience with my one and only sibling. Older sister although by 3 yrs, bullied me throughout at home and school growing up (slaps & punches thrown in for good measure). Sadly but not unsurprisingly now estranged from each other. Very sad indeed. I don't know why parents look the other way when they can see what's going on. Encouraging the bully to think they are entitled. Hope everyone who experienced this is healing.

[quote Decorhate]@Heifer Ds has had a sore throat since coming back from Reading but had a PCR test & has been doing LFTs every day & all negative.

Before Covid I think it was quite common for kids to come back with a virus. Similar to Freshers flu. So maybe just that.[/quote]
@Decorhate Same here. DS has come home from Reading with a stinking cold, mainly developing Thursday.

He has PCR’d negative earlier this week and continues to LFT negative. This is despite him sharing a room with someone who is now Covid positive. I am debating another PCR just to be sure.

Oh Shimy I was just coming on here to say I always wanted two children close together (had a miscarriage after 1st) so ended up with them 3 years apart. But you say 3 years was awful too. My 2 Dds are very different temperaments and had times of being really close then not - possibly as the oldest went into different stages of growing up. They are very close now but I feel sorry for Dd1 as she hand-holds her little sis through so much and it’s getting the support herself.
Take that as a small advantage of not being so close?

Zanda this is getting rather weird but 'snap' with wanting two dc close together because of the nasty experience i had. I thought closer together would mean they'll be best friends. But due to miscarriage after the first ended up with you guessed it, 3 yrs apart, but my boys are besties! so, the moral of this tale is there's no magic gap. It's down to the parents in my opinion to manage the dynamic between siblings when they are small and this trajectory usually carries on once they grow older.

BlueMarigold, I don't have any direct contact with her anymore; I've seen her twice in 12 years, at my dad's funeral and then again at my older sister's funeral a couple of years ago.

It's a sad, complicated story but in a nutshell, my family is very dysfunctional and, after putting up with the bullying for many years, I drew the line once my own children started to be affected by it.

Shimy, you are so right - my parents created division and hostility among my siblings, and did nothing about the bullying and abuse that arise as a result.
Because of this, none of us have good relationships with each other as adults.