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Teachers - can you share your inset day wisdom with us pretty please?
As MSE is partly responsible for more money lessons being on the curriculum next term (yay!) we're thinking of holding a webcast for teachers on Monday 1 September. The idea is teachers can live ask Martin a question (via the forum, email etc.) and he'll give answers that hopefully inspire confidence in how fun finance can…
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What is the CSA child maintenance calculations based upon?
So if you use their calculator you put in number of children and number of nights per week you will look after them. I guess that assumes they are living with the absent parent for those nights. My DS's exGF works shifts so 2 nights a week he stays in HER house overnight to mind their 2 children. 1 other night a week he…
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Help needed re house and ex wife
We have a friend who has been separated from his wife for 5 years. They have 2 children ( One child lives with each parent) and initially his ex moved another man into the family home and paid this friend an agreed sum when her and the new man re-mortgaged. They have never divorced, they started and got as far as the…
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I don't know what to do about my step daughter
My partner and her daughter moved in with me about 4 years ago. Her daughter was 12 at the time. Over the first 3 years, both my partner and I have had to deal with self-harming, fake suicide attempts, poor grades at school, the police turning up on our doorstep because she told childline she was going to kill herself (it…
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End of relationship
Hi all I had been with my bf for nearly two and half years and I think it's now come to an end and I feel terrible. Some of you may remember me posting previously that he wouldn't let me meet his kids (which never happened) and he was having commitment problems. It just seemed that he wanted to keep me separate from his…
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Scottish SQA Results
Hi All My daughter's exam results are due out tomorrow and I have no idea how to understand them :o I have 2 older boys and each time they have taken exams the set up has been different but at least the teachers and the SQA website have been helpful, but not so this time. Any help would be much appreciated :j
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They say it comes in threes!
I seem to be having a real run of bad luck lately. About two weeks ago I was collecting my son from school with my then eight week old daughter in my arms when a transit van making a delivery to the school reversed into me. He hit me on my right hand side, although luckily I was holding my baby in my left hand with her…
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PTSD,at last I know whats's wrong with me!
Seperated from my partner last week and in the letter she wrote to me she said she felt as though she never knew me,felt no passion,no commitement. We'd been together 10 years and these thoughts had been troubling me since before then,the distance I put between us sometimes,my inability to sleep,I can't remember when I had…
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Senco/Aspergers
Is it unreasonable to request meeting with Senco/new class teacher before term starts? Advised to do so by consultant paediatrician, but school secretary has said we must wait until child starts back. Any advice thoughts appreciated. Thanks
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Rights after break-up
In a relationship for 5 years Living together for 3 years Engaged for 1 year Mortgage is in Partner A’s name Partner A and B have contributed 50/50 to all bills for 3 years Engagement called off by Partner A Does Partner B have any rights to the property after having contributed to 3 years worth of mortgage payments?
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Need for info
I realise this really isn't the right place to ask but can anyone point me in the directions of a free from bias "idiot" guide to what is going on with Israel / Palestine Reading the papers and watching the news but they all seems to have an angle of their own. I realise this may be a big ask but I hear people "discussing"…
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Forum Member that helps with school appeals
Hi, Can anyone tell me the name of the forum member that offers to help with school application appeals please? Thanks in advance.
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Anxiety / Stress
I suffer from periods of time when I'm excessively anxious. My back tenses up to the point of being in physical pain. I become tunnel visioned for a time where I can only focus on one thing. Interruptions to my train of thought are difficult to handle and planning things like a holiday etc is something I'd defer. I become…
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Sad day
Sorry to offload all this on you all but here goes...along with quite a few other things my wife and I are separated, but a financial issue was the straw that broke the camel's back. Our relationship was already on it's !!!! but we strived to resolve it and be a family for our beautiful children, aged 5 & 8. My wife always…
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What would you do in this situation?
Good morning, About 2 years ago I fell out with a friend who was basically very unsupportive over various things. We stopped talking and we have moved on with our lives and are doing different things etc. I dont want to be involved with them again as far as I'm concerned thats that. Anyway yesterday this woman stopped me…
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F-time work and kids activities
I'm interested in knowing what others do to get their children to out of school activities when the adults in the household work f-time, especially if they finish at 5pm or later. This wasn't an issue when my eldest was young, as either I didn't work, was at college with flexible hours or had a job with a 3pm finish. In…
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How much to pay parents for looking after kids
I have been unemployed for a while and have just got a temp job through an agency which is full time (9-5, Mon-Fri). Obviously now it's the school holidays, my parents are having the kids. They will be going there in the morning and coming back after tea. I want to pay my Mom some money for having them (cost of food etc)…
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Advice pls, messed up big time
Hi all, I had been happily living with my partner of 20 odd years with four children. We bought our first house with a joint mortgage. A couple of years later I received a house as a gift from my parents on the understanding it was for the children (nothing in writing though). OH decided to let the other house as it was in…
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hair gel recommendations for a child
My DS age 7 has just started to get fussy about his hair :eek: to be fair alot of his friends have been bothered about theirs way before him, I am lucky I have avoided it for this long! He likes gel in it but the problem is he has very fine hair and it doesn't hold, 10 minutes after I have put it in his hair is flat again.…
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Divorce, what has my mum signed?
Hi all, just a quick question... My mum and dad are divorcing, my mum went to sign some papers the other day and insists she signed one to say she wouldn't get married again. That can't be right can it, does anyone have an idea what she signed? The stage they are at is near the end, they've agreed settlements terms and the…
