How much do you 'ignore' your children?

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Have just been out with two families - friends of ours- who have kids about the same age, and I have to confess, I am amzed by the extent to which they actively 'ignore' their children trhoughout the whole afternoon.

By this I mean they seem to 'zone out' from all the various requests/ questions/ constant 'to-ing and fro-ing' that seems typical of under- 6s??

As a result they actively seem to enjoy themselves more, manage to have 'adult' conversations (which I gave up years ago )and it seems that their kids eventually give up and go and sort out themselves whatever it is they want....( which seems like a good thing I suppose)

I can't decide whether I'm just a mug with my kids and let them dominate my life too much... but I simply CAN'T ignore them - it seems really rude and uncaring somehow??

and Manchester to London isn't "that" far away! And at 4 children make friends and 'adapt' very quickly.

Then the letters sent out last year were wrong. I cannot be held responsible for that. If i have indeed got my wires crossed so have other parents as we were discussing this in the playground on friday afternoon.

LOL at you actually knowing it QoQ!

IN the machine now- am happy the RBS stuff has been laid to rest. Big thank you GG. Can't get the energy together to try and get ot the bottom of the disabilities stuff.

pmsl at your name BB!

Caligula - got the run by run updates open in another window

GG maybe so i can only say things as i saw them.... I saw them from a small childs view and he was frightened. that is where my concern was whether right or wrong in anyones eyes. It was right in mine.

its me cod

That's a pity Vaunda, but if anyone else is interested they are by coincidence joining in Open house across london next weekend and have an open day on Saturday 17 Spetember, also have events/performances worth going to with children...

Look, it doesn't take a genius to work out that a professional ballet company would not offer a number of guaranteed places every year to an arbitrary primary school of average size. Let alone the ridiculous rubbish that the places would be lifetime ones.

Pah.

pmsl
bb. thought you wre fern brittan

jimjams, karl imo feels comfortable with sn children for a number of reasons, he likes to help and play with them. He has always been around ppl who are disabled and so he has a caring nature towards them. this is not a faut in my eyes it is a bonus. He doesn't make fun of them and quite often stands up for them in and out of school. He has had more of an attachment since we lost dad, as i said he was disabled for years... since i was a small child of 5.

isn't that positive discrimination vaunda?

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srtill pmsl about the confusion in the voice of the school receptionist.

She must have thought i was a loony!¬

GG, think the confusion came from the fdact that the dance teacher works with the rsb and takes the children through and hour of dance every wednesday and the odd classes on friday. I did not get the letter last year but other parents whose children are in the juniors did. and this was the discussion had in teh playground friday aftrnoon while we were waiting for the children.

lol - poor woman

GG is what positive discrimination?

trust me it doesn't take much to confuse either of the receptionists.

I would have thought with all your experience of people with disabilities (which I'm sure you know is the term to use rather than "disabled people") and the fact that your son attends a school with a large % of people from different ethnic backgroundsyou'd know what positive discimination is!

oh stop perlease

i still don't believe that a school would offer three guaranteed places to its pupils a6 such a prestigious school as White Lodge and not shout it from the rooftops. Surely the school would be keen to publicise it and raise their profile in the local press?

And such a philanthropic act would definitely be utilised by the RBS's press office!

i asked what had i said that was positive discrimination not waht is it............

they've just been chatting about it in the playground for goodness sake, I'm sure you've speculated about stuff like that and it's not turned out how everyone thought.

possibly so.... so shoot me i erred

Oh Lord, enough already. I agree with custardo - and yes, I did post yesterday but this is just insane now. It's all gone a bit Lord of the Flies. No more for me - are there any other threads on MN today?