Parents of Year 11DC support thread. The final term.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Eep.

Ds2 (year 9) has just got up and gone straight back to bed saying he felt sick. Arrgghh! Stay away from dc1!

oh no greenend! That is the last thing you need.

Not actually been sick(phew) but his eyes look sunken and he hasn't taken his,phone back to bed with him (was on charge all night). That's a sure sign he's not well!

oh dear.
I think you need to stick a plastic sheet over his bedroom door with hazmat tape. Lock him in until the crisis is over. You can catapult food in through his bedroom window.

Apparently there is going to be a pollen explosion over the next few weeks. Poor DD suffers really badly with hayfever.

Oh dear green. Hope it is not contagious.

What happens if DC are ill during the exams? I remember a girl fainting during an O'Level.

I dunno, I was hoping for guidance from school. Afternoon exams - it is easy to phone in, in a flap. Morning ones, no guarantee of getting through to someone in time. I guess take them into reception with bucket and bell round their neck and ask that they are put in the isolation classroom that surely they must have for times of emergencies in exams.
I really really hope that I don't have to put it to the test.

Not surprised about the pollen explosion - I've noticed that all sorts of flowers are coming in at the same time that shouldn't. Our really warm winter has messed it all up.

DS is not as bad once the birch pollen has dropped off so he's probably got another few weeks (according to the forecast here

According to the pharmacist DS didn't want whateveritwas because it would make him drowsy. Yes, well I'll be going back for that just before the holidays and we'll have a week's trial then. It's not as if he's driving or operating heavy machinery. I will suggest to DS that when the time comes he might like to study at a nice city university with plenty of concrete rather than on some leafy campus.

I used to have hay fever but once I'd finished with the job that needed me to drive between miles of oil seed rape twice a day it mysteriously stopped.

That's worrying green, I hope it turns out to be nothing other than being a bit off colour.

I think you send them in if you possibly can - dosed up on painkillers, etc if necessary. And if they are really too ill then you contact the school first thing, and also get a GP appointment for that day to certify that they're ill.

Am also hoping not to have to put this to the test. Thankfully threatining a scribe and GP review of the "injured" hand seemed to be sufficient to bring about a recovery for DSD and her only complaints so far have been that biology was obviously horrible because it was biology so what did we expect? No mention of injured hand limiting her thankfully.

Hope your DS2 gets better soon, green - yes keep him shut in his room and take food to him - and if you have two toilets/bathrooms, let him have one of them all to himself for a few days.

DS has an after school session today to go through his disasterous geography paper, and hopefully learn some exam technique. Anyone know the rules on when they need to answer in complete sentences and when bullet points will suffice?

dds school sent out a letter to parents that pupils can wear Summer uniform starting this week. Given the weather over the bank holiday, I had reservations. Now am beginning to wonder how they knew!

Summer uniform isn't allowed until after half term here

DH suffers with hay fever, but luckily, the rest of us don't. I should imagine that's pretty miserable during exam season. The DC occasionally are affected when the tree pollen is particularly high.

Had DD (Y10) Parents Evening last night. Lovely, she's been predicted high grades, but the work ethic she has really shone through..... if only I could transfer some of this to DS..........

Shiney he's on loratadine in the morning and cetirizine in the afternoon. I started early this year rather than waiting for him to be really suffering. I've just added a nasal spray to the mix and I think that might be the thing that makes the difference, he was certainly less moist this morning despite it being fine and dry.

I took him to the GP last year, he had a prescription for eye drops, a nasal spray and tablets. He wouldn't use the eye drops, the pharmacist wouldn't dispense the spray as it wasn't licensed for children and the tablets seemed to be no more effective as the over the counter stuff. At the moment he is nowhere near as bad as he was last year so that's something.

I was just about to suggest that Loratadine is supposed to be the best antihistamine in terms of having the fewest side affects, in particular drowsiness. If you check some of the own brand, cheaper tablets out there, you can pick it up pretty cheap.

DD was reviewed by our surgery pharmacist as it was her GCSE year and was switched to loratadine from cetirizine. She also finds the nasal spray helps the most, and eye drops essential. Was hoping for a mild year like last year.

A colleague at work failed an o level, she fell asleep with her hayfever meds after writing her name and couldn't be woken

DS is on day two of the "feels like a violation", "oh no, the mint, THE MINT" nasal spray and this afternoon has volunteered that the suffering is worth it because he feels so much better. I thought that he was less drippy this morning and it looks as if I was right. Fingers crossed but it looks like Prev@lin @llergy (they are not paying me so they aren't getting a searchable advert) is going to do the job. I'm even getting over the shock of paying £8.99 for it in the chemists and then seeing it for £6 in the supermarket.

That's something else I can cross off my list of things to worry about. By next summer I will have forgotten what it was he took that worked so I'm going to put a reminder in my calendar. Watch him grow out of it just as I get organised.

My dc's gets a prescription from the gp for his hayfever medication.

Dc2 slept in to 10am and probably would have slept longer had I not touched him(to check he was still alive. Dc2 never sleeps in beyond 7.30am, so this was really unusual.

Dc1 hopefully has done revision today. He was going to concentrate on history today.

Hi, just wondering if anyone else's DD/DS are doing tassomai but finding it really slow to load recently? It has taken an hour and half this evening to do just a few questions as the server is so slow and my grumpy teen has given up and gone to do some 'real revision'....

I can second Tassomai running very slow. DS bit fed up. Was thinking it might just be our rural poor service but will now report to website.

We had that problem yesterday examfatigue , but it seems to be OK today.

DS has a theory that everyone else is now revising and making it run slow!

Ydon't think has done any today. Will prompt him tomorrow.

According to twitter, Tassomai is being updated. Not the most sensible timing...

good luck to everyone with geograpy igcse today.
My ds will have just started the paper now.

DS has agreed to let us take away all his gaming equipment at the weekend! This is a major advance as it's been a constant distraction and source of many arguments. It's so much better that it's come from him - if we'd just removed it, it could have been counter-productive.

BlueGazebo - he may need much soothing after a few days!

We made it to Friday. Woo Hoo - Go us!

(sorry sunshine going to my head)