[Strictly Jake]

So its that week full of emotion where kids start primary school and high school and I want to take a chance to say good luck if your a parent going through it

Never used to understand the emotion part of it

But now im a dad i totally get it

Im lucky to have an amazing bond with my children and yesterday i had to fill in an application form for my baby girl to start school next september and just doing that made me cry i cant believe its only a year since she starts that long school life journey and it occurs to me she is no longer my baby girl

Feels unreal because she is so small and struggles with speech, my son is one and a half and he is as big as her so it doesnt feel right to send her

But I guess we all have to go through it. I just want this next year to go very slow!

But yeah to those parents who are members on here or simply just reading this going through this, this week

All the best

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[Crimson Dynamo]

My brats have been back for weeks

[Cherie]

Aw Shakey I feel your pain, first days are awful, but generally more so for the parents than the kids, as they adapt and get on really quickly, the worse thing about starting school is now your life is governed by 6 week cycles for the next 14 years!

[user104658]

I definitely get where you're coming from; my youngest (6) is autistic and still has very little conversational language (lot of words now, but very few sentences) and she started school last year (specialist ASD provision) and I was a wreck about it before she started. She's really just still a baby in a lot of ways. HOWEVER - she loves it and we have come to very much appreciate the peace when they're both at school and we're off . She loves it so much that she was painfully bored and destructive over the summer . They do so much with her in terms of crafts / messy play / trips out etc. that it's impossible for us to keep up with their pace.

I still remember my eldest going off to "normie" primary school for the first time, too. She looked so little, it seemed really wrong! I was also convinced it'd be like we "never saw her any more".

But... it doesn't really feel like that at all and trust me, you'll be amazed how quickly it just becomes normal routine.

You'll also be horrified at how time suddenly fast forwards, and you wake up one morning and she's starting Primary 5 . Bloody HIGH SCHOOL in 3 years, what the actual ****.

[Nicky91]

talking about school brings back bad memories for me tbh, like due to my autism, i was unable to make friends so i was more on my own while everyone of my classmates were playing together, watching cartoons on tv during lunch break together and i was for example just sitting alone, there was one guy who was friends with me for a short while but he left for Uni he skipped a few classes cause he was really really intelligent, so i was alone after that again

so that was also a reason i now joined these forums, which makes it way easier to communicate and make a lot of friends

i'm not a socially outgoing sort of guy honestly, last time i ever went to the cinema for example was with my class many years ago to the first Cars movie


but anyway Jakey just support your children as much as you can whenever they need support if they have had rough school days i mean, i would say give them the advice to have fun with some of their other classmates, as stated above i know out of experience how sad it can be to be alone at school

[Kazanne]

Love seeing all the kids in their new uniforms ,mine start back tomorrow, no doubt the boys will come home looking as though they have been dragged through a hedge backwards, lol but I love that they have so many tales to tell about their day and new friends,Maia,on the other hand will come home,grunt and say she can't wait to leave , lol.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

talking about school brings back bad memories for me tbh, like due to my autism, i was unable to make friends so i was more on my own while everyone of my classmates were playing together, watching cartoons on tv during lunch break together and i was for example just sitting alone, there was one guy who was friends with me for a short while but he left for Uni he skipped a few classes cause he was really really intelligent, so i was alone after that again

so that was also a reason i now joined these forums, which makes it way easier to communicate and make a lot of friends

i'm not a socially outgoing sort of guy honestly, last time i ever went to the cinema for example was with my class many years ago to the first Cars movie


but anyway Jakey just support your children as much as you can whenever they need support if they have had rough school days i mean, i would say give them the advice to have fun with some of their other classmates, as stated above i know out of experience how sad it can be to be alone at school

I know a lot of people end up having a tough time at school Nicky. To be honest, it sounds like your school really let you down and should have been doing (a LOT) more to help support you.

[AnnieK]

My son has started year 3 this morning and looking at the new reception class its hard to believe his year were ever that teeny. The infant years flew.....I was just glad to get him back into school (no more sorting activities for whilst im in work) and he just wanted to get back with him mates.

[Niamh.]

My daughters just gone into her final year at school (I think she'd be in "college" if she were in the UK?) She's doing her leaving cert this year (which is like your A levels) so it's going to be a stressful one I think, she takes it very seriously and is a perfectionist when it comes to school (no idea where she got that from )

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I know a lot of people end up having a tough time at school Nicky. To be honest, it sounds like your school really let you down and should have been doing (a LOT) more to help support you.

yeah, and all the bad grades i got, even though i studied loads


english, geography, biology were my fave school subjects what i was also doing the best at

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

yeah, and all the bad grades i got, even though i studied loads


english, geography, biology were my fave school subjects what i was also doing the best at

maybe you studied the wrong things

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

My daughters just gone into her final year at school (I think she'd be in "college" if she were in the UK?) She's doing her leaving cert this year (which is like your A levels) so it's going to be a stressful one I think, she takes it very seriously and is a perfectionist when it comes to school (no idea where she got that from )

England Niamh, don't be lumping us in with them . In Scotland if you're getting academic qualifications you (generally) stay on at school until 18. College is for more vocational things / adult learners. In England it seems to be a mix with some places it being mostly college for A-levels but other places the high school offers A-levels too... I think. I know my wife's school only went up to GCSE then a separate college for A-level.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

England Niamh, don't be lumping us in with them . In Scotland if you're getting academic qualifications you (generally) stay on at school until 18. College is for more vocational things / adult learners. In England it seems to be a mix with some places it being mostly college for A-levels but other places the high school offers A-levels too... I think. I know my wife's school only went up to GCSE then a separate college for A-level.

ah apologies, I thought you had the same system, Scotland sound a bit more like us then, actually your system sounds much better, ours really only suits academically minded people which is pretty unfair imo, it makes it seem like any other kind of skills are "less than". Don't know what I'm going to do with my son, he's 14 now and is convinced he's going to be a UFC fighter

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

maybe you studied the wrong things

highly unlikely, the books i used for my homework i brought with me from school

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

highly unlikely, the books i used for my homework i brought with me from school

then your method of study must now be called into question