MSE Parents Club Part 7

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LUCE I LOVE YOU ... i forgot about my argos voucher ... guess what im doing on wednesday x

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emlou2009 wrote: »

i had a lesson with BSM and i found them to be overpriced and pointless, all you are paying for is the name. if you want a "named" company, try CIA - they are a kind of union of self employed instructors who use the company name to get out there IYSWIM. i used 2 instructors from there, the first had me driving round the same block for my first 6 lessons so i rang back and asked for a different one, who was brilliant and had actually had his own school for 15 years but wanted to step back a bit, so went and worked for CIA instead. MUCH cheaper too, when i was doing it BSM wanted £25 a lesson and CIA wanted £17 for the first 10, then £18 after. this is many moons ago, though

the thing is BSM are doing a deal at the mo 10 lessons for £150 so i want to ask about it as ive shopped around and found no one cheaper so just going to ask today ...

who was it that has a driving instructor for a dad (retired i think they said) but do they know of a good name company or person in sheffield?? im in the heeley area if that helps x

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Morning all

Bruno, I never leave my blackberry lying around for exactly that reason !!
Sorry for the lack of sleep some of you had, mine was great, went to bed at 1.30 and only woke up when the alarm went off at 7.40 !! Lovely Although since both my kids were asleep for 9.30pm I could have had a much longer sleep than I allowed myself

Plans for today are tidy tidy tidy !! My house is a tip and needs a really good clean
I will be making sure Chris helps as he is very good at giving orders and watching, not so good at taking orders and doing !!

SusanC_2

Does anyone else's child really miss their dad when they're out at work? Alice is always saying that she's "Crying for Daddy" or "Sad for Daddy" when he's out at work.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Apparently it is 6 months...but I don't believe in baby signing. There are currently studies going on about whether it surpresses language development. And IF I was going to teach my child to sign, I would teach him to sign proper BSL, not some poxy macaton (or whatever it is) that is no use to anybody.

Makaton is for people with speech/language/learning difficulties whereas BSL is for deaf people. When I worked on a special needs playscheme, there was a little boy on it who couldn't speak but did have some Makaton. The first year I was there we had terrible trouble with his behaviour and violent tantrums every day but then the second year I worked there we were given better information about the children and had details of signs that he knew and there was no trouble with him at all. The poor child had been coming in every day that first year and trying to communicate things to us (mainly claiming to be hungry) and we had just not been responding to him the first year so it's no wonder he'd ended up having tantrums.

elle_gee wrote: »

I was just mulling over (vaguely!) the idea of if Rhys did have communication problems, maybe it would be an idea to try baby signing so we have a "back up" method, as it were.. I dunno..

You might be able to get some sign language classes free if they think it might be needed. My mum and I learned sign language when I was seven because they thought my brother might be deaf (although it turned out he wasn't so we didn't need it). I mainly know nursery rhymes in sign language.

SugarSpun wrote: »

Twice a year the small towns around Munich have Sunday openings and people stream in to shop there. Ikea does the same and there are fights over carpark spaces.

Why don't they go on another day when it's quieter? Who wants to go to the shops when it's so busy that you have to fight over parking spaces?

tarajayne wrote: »

Ikea is a day out. X

It really is. I actually did take Alice to Ikea last week just for the fun of it. (I never thought I'd go to a shop for fun!) She likes to have tea parties in all the "rooms".

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MM aint all men ....... usually i tell philip to go somewhere else as hes under my feet and doing my head in x

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Normally when I am at work and he is at home, he just does it, but when I am at home, I think he either goes blind to the mess, or becomes a chauvinist pig and thinks I should do it all !! However he always cooks, I never cook !! And he is always great with the kids, and would be more apt to sit down to play Monopoly the second Jas asks to putting the bin out !!

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SusanC wrote: »

Why don't they go on another day when it's quieter? Who wants to go to the shops when it's so busy that you have to fight over parking spaces?

A combination of novelty and the special offers that are put on for Sunday openings. It only happens twice a year so it's a bit of a festival event and all the shops have a special offer or two to tempt in the shoppers. There's late opening twice a year till midnight, and it's mayhem then too for the same reasons.

I prefer to go when it's quiet, all the crowds bother me. But sometimes I'd love to be able to buy a litre of milk on a Sunday and not have to pay my left kidney for the privilege.

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SusanC wrote: »

Does anyone else's child really miss their dad when they're out at work? Alice is always saying that she's "Crying for Daddy" or "Sad for Daddy" when he's out at work.

i'm sure seth does. when OH leaves for work in the morning we have to make sure he doesnt see him walking out the front door cos he cries for a good half hour if he does, and when he comes home in the evening he gets so excited and kicks his little feet about and holds his arms out! he does the same with my nan. i'm glad i'm so exciting for him :rolleyes: he best do the same for me when i come home from work!

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susan does Alice say it more on a monday? If so could it maybe be because of having you both around at the weekend, and then returning to 'normal life'? I wondered as well if because your sunday has a lot of people in it, does she maybe miss that the next day, and associate it with Daddy not being there, and therefore misses him?

Just a thought, but you probably have your own theories which are more accurate

SusanC_2

emlou2009 wrote: »

how VERY dare this person quote me. i am offended.

I've just been ignoring the trolls - I presume they're the ones tigster referred to.