Back to school
Life is so different at this time of year. The kids have finally gone back to school and they're all in a higher year. This brings lots of excitement and sometimes fears and tears too.
Gone is the security of the classroom and teacher they left behind. Now they're older and get even more responsibilities placed on their young shoulders.
Courtney is 6, and not a baby any more. She now has homework and gets to do swimming with the school. She's proud, and lucky. She still has the same classmates and teacher. In her case it's really only the classroom that has changed. She's dealing with it well.
Kelsey on the other hand, isn't too happy with her school right now. As her grades have changed, she's been put into different sets, some higher and some lower than what she was in before. she also has a new classroom, a new teacher and a totally different bunch of classmates to get used to.
She was disappointed and upset the when she came home after the first day. But it's been a week now and she's starting to accept it the way it is. She's getting used to it and is actually finding that it can be good to change, as she's now been asked to sit on the school student council. Mainly due to the fact that she isn't shy about speaking up (which usually got her into trouble last year LOL).
Chris started college today. I guess that means my baby is a big boy now, eh? He's going for some computer courses, NVCU I think it's called. He's really happy because in his last year in school they told him that if he didn't make the grades they set, he wouldn't be able to get into college and he wouldn't get to do anything with computers even if they took pity on him and let him in!
He gave up at school, got totally depressed about it as it was all he's ever wanted to do. so he just gave up and didn't care at all about his GCSE's (which he did actually manage to pass, by the skin of his teeth).
The only reason he managed was because we called into college during the summer holiday to see if there was anything they could do to help. They told him he didn't have to have ANY grades from school and that he was more than welcome to start the NVCU course this September. Boy did the kid change or what! He was really happy again, the way I like him to be.
He came home for lunch today, feeling all grown up and important. Then went back to college with a huge grin on his face. That's like heaven to me :)
Kyle is still at home, being 'educated otherwise' as they like to call it. He's happy with that and probably won't ever want to go back to mainstream school. (Help!)
But yeah, this time of year always brings around a lot of changes for the youngsters. All we can really do is sit back, let them learn and be as supportive as we can. Should they encounter any problems they know they can come to me and I'll try to help them sort it out. They're older now, and need to sort certain things out on their own, but sometimes they do need our help and that's when we have to step up to the plate as good and responsible parents.
Here's to making our kids educational days happy days. Cheers!
Anna
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Gone is the security of the classroom and teacher they left behind. Now they're older and get even more responsibilities placed on their young shoulders.
Courtney is 6, and not a baby any more. She now has homework and gets to do swimming with the school. She's proud, and lucky. She still has the same classmates and teacher. In her case it's really only the classroom that has changed. She's dealing with it well.
Kelsey on the other hand, isn't too happy with her school right now. As her grades have changed, she's been put into different sets, some higher and some lower than what she was in before. she also has a new classroom, a new teacher and a totally different bunch of classmates to get used to.
She was disappointed and upset the when she came home after the first day. But it's been a week now and she's starting to accept it the way it is. She's getting used to it and is actually finding that it can be good to change, as she's now been asked to sit on the school student council. Mainly due to the fact that she isn't shy about speaking up (which usually got her into trouble last year LOL).
Chris started college today. I guess that means my baby is a big boy now, eh? He's going for some computer courses, NVCU I think it's called. He's really happy because in his last year in school they told him that if he didn't make the grades they set, he wouldn't be able to get into college and he wouldn't get to do anything with computers even if they took pity on him and let him in!
He gave up at school, got totally depressed about it as it was all he's ever wanted to do. so he just gave up and didn't care at all about his GCSE's (which he did actually manage to pass, by the skin of his teeth).
The only reason he managed was because we called into college during the summer holiday to see if there was anything they could do to help. They told him he didn't have to have ANY grades from school and that he was more than welcome to start the NVCU course this September. Boy did the kid change or what! He was really happy again, the way I like him to be.
He came home for lunch today, feeling all grown up and important. Then went back to college with a huge grin on his face. That's like heaven to me :)
Kyle is still at home, being 'educated otherwise' as they like to call it. He's happy with that and probably won't ever want to go back to mainstream school. (Help!)
But yeah, this time of year always brings around a lot of changes for the youngsters. All we can really do is sit back, let them learn and be as supportive as we can. Should they encounter any problems they know they can come to me and I'll try to help them sort it out. They're older now, and need to sort certain things out on their own, but sometimes they do need our help and that's when we have to step up to the plate as good and responsible parents.
Here's to making our kids educational days happy days. Cheers!
Anna
Please do feel free to leave me a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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