DSD got her 11+ results today and it wasn't good news.
I am incredibly proud of her,she worked really hard and although she was not naturally academic when she started school she is now in top sets for all streamed subjects and thought highly of by her teachers and peers.
She has had a difficult start with lots of upheaval in her mums home and she has come through it utterly brilliantly.
Her mum really oversold the 11+, "won't it be great when you're at X school with your cousin, all the other shools are naff etc etc, didn't consider what dsd's feelings would be if it didn't work out and once again went off on her own little tangent to the detriment of dsd.
DSD is gutted, didn't want to talk to anyone today. DP is gutted for her.
DSD's mum had made it worse by not reading the letter properly and telling her she'd passed. 
I know I'm only stepmum and not really considered to be able to/ entitled to have strong feelings about a child I haven't given birth to but really just want to go and cuddle her this evening.