MSE Parents Club Part 14

Krystaltips

Susan, I second M&Co for tights, my Aunt bought Aimee some lovely patterned ones in size 7-8... I might have seen some in M&S once too, but shall go and investigate that one...

Edit: They seem to go up to 6-7 in the pretty patterned younger girls ones but the older girls patterned ones all seem to have varying patterns of grey in? I wonder if that's the current fashion colour or just because they assume they'll be worn to school...

Millie's_Mum

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

If I remember rightly Elle had siimilar problems a few years ago

You would think that they would be a bit more sensitive.

I've had trouble with them not removing me from their mailing list too.

Susan there is a service called Baby MPS which should help,

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/bmpsr/

Buttonmoons

SusanC wrote: »

Alice does things funny ways round and she's right handed. When she writes her name it looks like H, l, i, back to front c which is almost an o, and then what would be a back to front e if she didn't carry on going round and round.

I do try and teach her things but she would much rather draw a picture than try and write her name, should I be encouraging her more? She does seem very creative, she drew all over herself the other day, but managed to incorperate the freckle (or eckle as she calls it) in on the doodle, the freckle was the pupil in the middle of an eye, in the grand scheme of her masterpiece.

Im at my mums right now and she is playing hide & seek with Ellie and Carly, and she is counting, she gets to 16 and screams out a hundred, here I come ready or not!! Also she keeps dropping her T's (common Scottish issue ) so It's -

Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thir'eeeeeeen, Four'eeeeeen. Wheres that paddle of mine, need to beat it outta her, and of course, I never ever drop my T's......~ wan some tat'ehs, pass eh buh'her.

kazzafromtheuk

Not sure if I'm putting this in the right place, but here goes.

My 10 year old daughter quite often comes out of school in tears. Her so called friends spend a couple of days being nice and then we get a spell of nastyness.

Last week they decided to have a whispering campaign and leave my daughter out. The secret was the most trivial thing you could imagine. One of her "friends" said she wanted to tell her but the others stopped her from doing so. This child was about to go on holiday for two weeks so my daughter rang her to wish her a good holiday. This then caused further problems with the other girls who then were nasty about her making the phonecall.

We had issues with another bully last year and I had to go to the head teacher. This made things worse for her because the head pulled the bully and then asked her friends what had been going on. The "friends" then became nasty because they didnt like being called into the Head.

My daughter is in the last year of juniors so next year there will be 100 new pupils to mix with but I need to get her through this last year and I am unsure what to do.

Anyone else had similar problems.

SusanC_2

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

I've had trouble with them not removing me from their mailing list too.

Susan there is a service called Baby MPS which should help,

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/bmpsr/

I thought of you and rued having signed up when the first e-mail came.

Thank you, I already signed up to the baby MPS.

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

I do try and teach her things but she would much rather draw a picture than try and write her name, should I be encouraging her more? She does seem very creative, she drew all over herself the other day, but managed to incorperate the freckle (or eckle as she calls it) in on the doodle, the freckle was the pupil in the middle of an eye, in the grand scheme of her masterpiece.

If she's drawing then she's developing the same fine motor skills she needs for writing so at this stage I wouldn't be particularly concerned about whether she's writing actual letters if she doesn't seem that interested.

SeptemberBaby_2

3onitsway wrote: »

Oh goody - so if we say we with the NCT we'll get in for £2? :j

Yes!

The previous post was a direct copy of their email to me.

xx

3onitsway

Hi Kazza. To be honest, I think it's just a girl thing. They're generally horrible.
My big DD is 9 almost 10, just started year 5, and I often can't keep up with who's friends with who this week. They've been like this for a couple of years.
It was worse when there were 5 close friends in their little group, so they'd always be two sets of best freinds and one left out. But my DD has distanced herself from this group, she says they're boring and has joined a group of girls who seem less nasty/!!!!!y.

Could you encourage your DD to make other friends in the class outside the group of horrid girls?

SugarSpun

Hi kazza, I have nothing to add but and :grouphug:. I think girls of that age can just be nasty and I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it. When I was 20 and my brother was ten he gave my mobile number to one of his classmates and she ended up making weird silent phone calls to me - being bullied by someone half your age is a very weird experience, but it petered out in the end. Can your daughter make some other friends either in school or out?

kazzafromtheuk

3onitsway wrote: »

Hi Kazza. To be honest, I think it's just a girl thing. They're generally horrible.
My big DD is 9 almost 10, just started year 5, and I often can't keep up with who's friends with who this week. They've been like this for a couple of years.
It was worse when there were 5 close friends in their little group, so they'd always be two sets of best freinds and one left out. But my DD has distanced herself from this group, she says they're boring and has joined a group of girls who seem less nasty/!!!!!y.

Could you encourage your DD to make other friends in the class outside the group of horrid girls?

Thanks for that. To be honest, I've noticed it started in year 5. I feel so upset for her because she is so naive and would never be nasty to someone. If she joins another group, they they entice her back and say they are sorry. Then a few days later, they start all over again with the nastyness. It's as though they dont want to be friends with her and want her in their group so that they can bully her. They constantly leave her out. If I invite one of them to play, the rest think she is trying to steal the friend away.

I remember this at senior school but not at junior. She is now on the phone to child line as she finds this helps.

I suppose we have just got to get through year 6 and see what senior school brings. There will be 100 new pupils from all over the area and so at least she can make friends with some other girls.