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Can I just have a little brag about DS1?????

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FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:03

well tough if I can't I'll do it anyway .

I'm SOOOOOO terrible at doing the tiny bits of "homework" they're given (his reading, and spellings once a week). Readings we do read stuff regularly - but I always forget to write in his school reading book that he has. Spellings he gets once a week but I quite often forget about them and if he's lucky the day of the spelling test I'll grab his spelling book out of his bookbag and fire them at him as I'm making his breakfast (without him even getting a look at them first). This usually occurs about once a month (and that's good going ).

I did confess to his class teacher at the parents open evening not long before Christmas about my failure to practice with him and his response was "oh - we'll have to move him up a group"........looking at the spellings in his book it would appear that he has been moved up a group as they're considerably harder now (IMO) than before Christmas.

Anyhow, today he came home with a certificate for "Fantastic Speller" - they give them out each half-term to the children that have got ALL their spellings right EVERY week for the entire half-term......he got 2 last term too (so he's got all his spellings correct in the tests since that start of YR2).

I'm really proud (and incredibly too - when I was his age my mum would practice them religiously with me and I still struggled - though I don't tell him I'm of course) of him.

waffling and bragging over - you can go back to your interesting, non-self indulgent threads now

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hunkermunker · 29/02/2008 00:05

Well done, FAQ's DS1!

(How are you?)

misdee · 29/02/2008 00:06

yay well done FAQ's ds1!!!

ps, whats happening on the home front, not seen update to all the stuff from before your trip.

RosaIsRed · 29/02/2008 00:06

Well done to your DS1. We'll enroll him in Pedants' Corner one of these days.

FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:07

I'm ok - a bit like a yo-yo really - one minute I'm feeling strong - the next I'm a gibbering wreck. I can cope when I have a couple of hours or even a whole day of being "up" or "down" - but it's doing my head in when it can vary from 1/2hr to 1/2hr (or less!).

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FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:08

misdee - we're separating......

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misdee · 29/02/2008 00:09

{{{{{{{}}}}}}}

are you moving or is he?

do u have support?

are you up northhamptom way? my friend is moving soon, he just got a job in p'boro and is having to sell his house.

FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:12

Thanks

(god if I'm like this with DS1 who is bright, what am I going to be like with DS2 - who it would appear is going to be extremely precocious). Thankfully it would appear that (atm) DS1 finds the literacy side of things easier, whereas DS2 (again with little input from me) appears to be developing an incredibly mathematical brain (I'd hate for DS1 to have his fragile confidence shattered by his younger brother "out doing" him at school - he's finding it hard enough that DS2 is dry at night and he's not LOL).

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FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:14

misdee - I was going to move, - had said that's what I'd want to do (wasn't sure I'd be able to "move on" if I was still living in our "family" home)......but given that I'll not be able to avoid seeing this house for AT LEAST the next 6yrs (being next door to the infant school that DS2 starts in September and where DS3 will go when DS2 leaves......) we've decided I'll stay here and he'll move out.

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FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:15

anyhow must go and sleep - I have a job interview at 11am tomorrow morning for which I've had NO chance to prepare (as I only called about the job today.......and if I get it I'll start on Monday ).

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misdee · 29/02/2008 00:16

oh gtood luck!

[you'll be fine]

hunkermunker · 29/02/2008 00:19

I think that's the right decision, FAQ, wrt the house - I wouldn't presume to tell you it was the right decision to separate, but I don't think it's wrong, shall we say?! You can do this.

FAQ · 29/02/2008 00:20

thanks - it's "only" a cleaning job (and temporary at that) - but workable hours for me and will give us something to pay the bills with at the end of March (haven't set a date for him moving out yet - waiting on the money from my Granddad's estate to come through first).

Night

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