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simonethebeaver

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Reviving this thread to share... Ours, back from an amazing week away with friends, is now complaining because he's been told to do a chore. Apparently he is so overworked compared to the average 11 year old that his blood pressure is 15% higher than normal!
EDmummy

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Mine just back from 9 days away but haven't asked him to do a chore yet - the signs aren't looking good Simonbeaver. On the plus side it's lovely to have some slightly more mature conversation (his brother is only 8) and he's genuinely interested in what's going on in Ukraine. Down side - he's used the 'f' word twice and tells me that he's now got used to using it whilst away.
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womanofdulwich

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I found this very helpful today!!

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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Tanza

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A few months back I was at the bus stop outside Denmark Hill station and a tall, teenage boy was standing a few people in front of me in the crowd waiting to get onto the bus. Looking to my right, I noticed a middle-aged lady running at full tilt towards us and by dint of much wriggling and gentle elbowing she managed to push through the crowd to reach the boy.


I inadvertantly laughed out loud because the disparity between her joyful expression as she greeted him and the bored, unenthusiastic response she received was astounding (to me as the mum of a 10 year old). I laughed because I saw the future for my son and me being played out in front of me.


The lady heard me laugh and misunderstood - she turned to me and apologised and said, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to push in front of you. It's just you see - that's my son!". Pointing to the boy who had already turned his back on her. Before I could put her right - the the bus doors opened and we all piled in.

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EDmummy

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I've been wondering this for the last few years and he's only 13!


womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> do you think universities will take undergraduate

> teenagers a few weeks early?( on the grounds they

> are driving their mum up the wall?)/ what

> privileges can you take away from an 18 year old?

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