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MSE Parents Club Part 12

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  • got-it-spend-it
    got-it-spend-it Posts: 5,016 Forumite
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    Ha, ha csh, just saw our avvies, one above the other with our Antilops in!
    :DYummy mummy, runner, baker and procrastinator :p
  • csh_2
    csh_2 Posts: 3,294 Forumite
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    Ha, ha csh, just saw our avvies, one above the other with our Antilops in!

    Antilops rule! Kierens takes some abuse like! He had a jam and cheese piece for his lunch and smeared it all over lol
  • Mazcabs wrote: »

    I keep meaning to ask what is so special about this bra? Should we all be buying one?
    They're saying I misunderstood, but frankly I'm not an idiot and I didn't!

    Basically I was told (by payroll) that I would be paid my standard rate (around £100) for each KIT day worked and would lose a day's SMP (£25) so it is worth my while doing them. They are now saying that they pay me my standard day rate, but I forfeit that amount in SMP so my take home is the same. Not sure what would happen if I did two in a week.......if I do them during my unpaid period of ML then I get paid, of course.

    I managed to wangle an agreement with my line manager that I would do my KIT days as and when, but I would claim the pay for all of them at at the end of my ML in the unpaid period.


    Mel - do you think DS would still have issues if you sat around the table (imagine hubby didn't have his problems)? This may sound really harsh but if my hubby was making mealtimes difficult I would tell him to b00ger off and eat his dinner in the garden so the kids and I could get on with being a family and eat together comfortably and enjoy mealtimes.
    I hope you don't take that the wrong way xx
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
    Proud Mummy to the gorgeous Benjamin John born 14 March 2009, 8lbs 14oz
    A new little seedling on the way, due 30 September 2012
  • redmel1621
    redmel1621 Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    edited 21 May 2010 at 9:24PM
    Will look out when I go maz...should really go tom, but not sure I can hack it in the heat, at least if I go monday only LO is with me so less mither, also can go immediately from dropping older two and it is really quiet then:)

    csh - Thank you. I really need to have a think about everything then. He is no good with a string of instructions, and I suppose this will hamper him in high school.....possibly even Juniors in Sept! This lack of being able to follow instructions was actually picked up way back in nursery(pre-school) and like you, I have always known myself that he was different.

    Simple things like the morning school routine (which is obviously done daily) I will say, put your shoes on and coat on and wait by the door with your bookbag...he usually gets the first instruction but everything else is as if I haven't even spoken. I literally have to let him complete one task at a time, often repeating myself a few times as he can't seem to remember what I have just said!!!

    Like I say, I have a lot to mull over in the next year or so! I am very lucky that his school is very good and have already put him on a 'beat dyslexia' program, to help him along, they have mentioned in the past about getting him seen by the ed psych but were happy to see if any changes could be implemented without going down that route first....

    Sorry to ramble on a bit here, just thinking out loud as much as anything else, but also it is very interesting to hear you experiences of high school with a dyspraxic child......makes me consider how it 'actually' will be for him.

    Curry just pulled up so need to go collect and serve:)

    Quick edit...MFD, we did used to have a dining table, only got rid of it last year because of it's lack of use...I did strictly implement a sitting round the table rule for over a year to see if that helped, but it was actually worse?? At least this way, ds2 is distracted so does tend to eat a little more than he used to when he was solely focusing on just his food...and at the same time dh isn't paying as much attention to how much ds2 has or hasn't eaten.....It's a balancing act! I think today was worse because the kids were eating at adifferent time to us as we are having a take-away (any minute) so dh could see everything that was going on, iygwim!!!
    Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    forgot to say........................................

    Earlier on Jack crawled to the stairs so I thought I'd go behind him and see if he could manage them - he climbed halfway up with no problems before he decided to try and sit in mid-air :eek:

    Am gobsmacked he tackled the stairs so easily - stairgates going up tomorrow! ;)
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • workinmummy
    workinmummy Posts: 1,479 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2010 at 10:05PM
    jennynoo wrote: »
    Ohh, so tempted, that and the brown flowered one...
    SugarSpun wrote: »

    The brown one is gorgeous, the picture really doesn't do it any justice at all.

    Snap. And a few others, I am in need of summer dresses. Fight you for it Jenny. :D
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    quiet on here - just caught OH napping in the conservatory so think we are going to get an early night.
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • jillie1974
    jillie1974 Posts: 6,997 Forumite
    glam, i'm not suprised by the way he was moving on wed
    'Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded'
  • aless02
    aless02 Posts: 5,119 Forumite
    SS all I can say is that I'm glad I am neither a size 8 nor have a little girl, or else I'd be in for some real trouble! :rotfl: at this rate I'll be surprised if any of your buyers AREN'T from the Parents Thread, hehe.
    top 2013 wins: iPad, £50 dental care, £50 sportswear, £50 Nectar GC, £300 B&Q GC; jewellery, Bumbo, 12xPringles, 2xDiesel EDT, £25 Morrisons, £50 Loch Fyne

    would like to win a holiday, please!!
    :xmassmile Mummy to Finn - 12/09; Micah - 08/12! :j
  • tiamai_d
    tiamai_d Posts: 11,987 Forumite
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    Ahem, I can't find these shoes....
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