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Original poster

pfb -in fact only child - off to secondary on Thursday...

788 replies

MaryAnnSingleton · 02/09/2008 08:07

am being calm but every so often panic strikes me - ds is fine about it, it's just me fretting about roads to cross/ money for the canteen - will it get lost/stolen, what about the lockers, arghhh ! Plus,as with the beginning of every term,I'll miss him - I love having him here in the holidays !
It also means that I have no excuses not to sit at my desk and work on the job I'm meant to finish by the end of Seot...

OP posts:

bellavita · 18/10/2008 00:16

He's gonna have to learn to come up with another plan!

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 18/10/2008 21:52

ds safely home - he says he couldn't find his clean socks and pants,even though I'd shown him which zip up thing in his bag they were in and also says he couldn't find his soap and shower gel, even though they were in his washbag with his flannel,which was damp and his tooth stuff... everything else remarkably clean.. seems to have had a good time but not much sleep !

bellavita · 18/10/2008 22:59

A lie in for the Spookington household then tomorrow

Glad he had a good time - at least he did not lose anything!

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 19/10/2008 08:39

[grin} well,I'm up as usual, but ds snuggled in his bed !

bellavita · 19/10/2008 08:42

I am up too (but so is DH - he always is when the Grand Prix is on).

The DS's have muttered the words "Eggy Bread" this morning, and whilst DH is happy to do it, they will have to wait until said Grand Prix is over, so I guess then it is down to me

roisin · 19/10/2008 09:19

Great that he had a good time MAS!

magentadreamer · 19/10/2008 11:46

Glad he had a good time MAS

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 19/10/2008 12:07

am glad he's been and done it, albeit for such a short time - I wont feel so odd next time !

magentadreamer · 19/10/2008 13:51

How come DD's spelling is naff but she can spell extraordinary and scrumptious correctly? She's just done a story about her dream job for English moaning cos I made her do it in rough first of all. Next up is 50 maths question.... I so love homework!

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 19/10/2008 19:30

you should hear ds moan and harrumph if I even suggest rewriting anything !!!!!!!

bellavita · 19/10/2008 20:12

It is the same in this household too, we always get DS to scan/photocopy the homework so he can do it in rough first - not a happy chappy at all.

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 20/10/2008 16:05

gah ! have just driven ds back to school to go and find his planner and pencil case - now, should I have let him stew about this carelessness or done this ? he didn't ask me to, I just said we'd best get them ...I did lecture him on making sure he'd checked his bag before leaving etc

roisin · 20/10/2008 16:16

I wouldn't have done it, because it's too far and I'm too busy.

It's probably the best thing to be sure of relocating it successfully. But make sure you go heavy on the lecture with him so that he takes responsibility for his stuff in future!

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 20/10/2008 16:23

mm,we're pretty near and I was thinking off all the kerfuffle of buying replacement pencil case and contents and losing the planner would have been very pesky...I did say 'well, now ds you've learned an important lesson here...etc'

bellavita · 20/10/2008 17:54

I would not have taken him back, but I would have felt awful inside for him wondering if tomorrow he could find it etc.

DS asked if he could wear his new coat to school this morning and of course I said yes. Tonight he came home without it but he assures me it is in his locker

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 20/10/2008 21:12

see, I am crap at the holding out and letting him experience losing stuff because he forgets to check his bag...oh dear. Hope coat is safely in your ds' locker bellavita

roisin · 20/10/2008 21:28

apart from the odd pencil ds1 still hasn't lost anything
I'm stunned.

bellavita · 20/10/2008 21:35

So do I MAS, so do I

But the question is now - do I make him go to shcool without one tomorrow? or be kind and let him wear a hoodie/fleece top that can be stuffed put nicely into his bag.

bellavita · 20/10/2008 21:36

school

roisin · 20/10/2008 21:40

I would definitely send him without one tomorrow: more likely to motivate him to remember to check is locker for the other one or to go searching in lost property if he can't find it.

robinpud · 20/10/2008 21:45

I haven't read the whole thread.. but have just had dd aged 11 in tears. She has yet to find a real group of friends, and feels in limbo between the old primary school friends, ( who although nice are not on the same wavelength ) and new secondary school friends who all seem to be part of old primary school groups already.

So, have your pfbs made amazing new groups of friends or any of them feeling the same as dd?

roisin · 20/10/2008 21:50

Why not robinpud? There are only 497 posts after all.

Most yr7s I know of are in this position if they knew people from primary. They cling to the friendships from primary to give them a bit of support and security in the new environment, but gradually they branch out and get to know new and better friends. This can be through their forms, through activities and clubs, or through the classes they are in.

The only particular mate ds1 has made is someone who goes on the (service) bus with him, and from the stories he tells it's not a friendship I want to encourage!

robinpud · 20/10/2008 21:54

Thanks Rosin- you are so the sort of person I would like to know in rl; always empathetic and wise. I always like your posts.

Poor dd; we spent a year abroad which straddled year 6 and she is desperate for a bf.. she feels so lonely and yet if you met her you would think her the most popular child. She thinks everyone else is as happy as larry..

bellavita · 20/10/2008 22:07

Hi robinpud

DS1 is still hooked up with his old primary friends - they seem to seek each other out at break/lunch, but having said that, he has made a couple of new friends that he hangs out with also.

Do you think it is girl thing needing a bf and security?

I remember having that need (was a very long time ago now lol).

roisin · 20/10/2008 22:23

I think close friendships are more important to girls than boys.

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