Beans lovely birth story. I forgot about all the hassles when you go to the toilet afterwards though. Not fun. Have you had many visitors yet or are you keeping them at bay?
Kiwi I'm sure it'll be fine on the veggie front - there's no way in this day and age she's just going to get a lump of gristle dumped on her plate no questions asked like we did. Mine don't eat meat either and they would always ask if they weren't sure - I'm sure your DD will be the same. It's not an issue at school for us as the DCs have packed lunches but I overhear them asking if things are vegetarian at other places, and I don't think I've ever told them to.
Speaking of school dinners, have I heard right that infants are all getting free dinners from next September? Just a shame they are a bit grim at DCs' school.
Rubes is it polo shirts you are ironing or shirts? Gosh it would never occur to me to iron a polo shirt (or anything really - I'm never actually really sure if we own an iron). I bet my DCs are the scruffiest at the school. Every year there is a photo of all the reception classes in the local paper and of course I'd forgotten to put her hair up when DD's was taken so it probably looks like a bird's nest. Do any of your OHs know how to put hair up (those of you with DDs)? Mine doesn't and it's a bloody pain.
Seems strange that some of the DCs haven't started school yet - feels like DD has been there ages. She had her first books home in her book bag this week and several lists of words to learn. They've even already put them into their literacy groups. Blimey, they don't mess about do they?
School strike - we got a letter about it. All the teachers are off bar 2. Unlucky for those 2 classes! Not an inconvenience for us - tbh it will do the DCs good to have an extra day off school.
Thanks for all your thoughts on DS.
Kayz yes I think our DSs are pretty much exactly the same age (March birthday). I’m hoping it’s just a phase but who knows! I was hoping he might get better over the summer holidays but he seems to have got worse. Hope your assessment goes well – whatever the outcome it will hopefully give you some pointers as to how to deal with your concerns. I’d be interested to hear what advice they give you.
Deids although DS is in Year 2 you are right in that his teacher has only known him for a couple of weeks so that is quite soon for her to be taking action - to be honest though I’m going to grab the opportunity with both hands if it means an issue can be identified and there might be extra support on offer. It might take the pressure off us a little at home.
Vag that’s interesting about DS’s assessment – I wonder if they’ll do something similar here. I think we’ve spoken before about the issues they have with concentration and your description of DS sounds all very familiar – massive concentration span when it’s something he’s interested in, getting easily distracted by others, staring into space (usually inventing something!). I do think you’re right about it being all very repetitive at that age – how can we get them engaged in stuff that’s (let’s face it) not very engaging? I wonder if I should home educate .
LadyT & Invis it’s reassuring to hear your stories, and the rational part of me knows that he will be fine in the end. But without the benefit of hindsight it’s difficult to know how to deal with the here and now and whether pushing him or leaving him be is the right thing to do – I veer between the two, but if I think that the school has got it in hand I will feel much better with the leaving him be approach, as that’s what my instinct tells me. It’s all too much pressure at that age.
I have no issue with DS having an assessment, a statement, or being labelled as having special needs (although to be honest I can’t see that happening). I’m just surprised as we had kind of assumed that he was simply at the lazy end of the spectrum but nothing unusual, and we’ve never had any indication from other teachers that there might be something to be concerned about (because I suspect he’s just flown under their radar more than anything). Anyway I’ve got an appointment with the teacher after school so I can hear it all from the horse's mouth.
Phew what a megapost! Can you tell this is my first child-free Friday? I had big plans of being super productive but I've managed one lot of cooking and that's it so far.