MSE Parents Club Part 14

got-it-spend-it

3onitsway wrote: »

My DD is doing her homework. They're doing about the solar system in school, and Uranus is the funniest word of the day. :rotfl:
She's just said 'did you know that Uranus is a gas planet...well mine certainly is!'

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:We certainly produce some witty children on this thread! L comes out with some brilliant lines.

I'm waiting for my OH to wake up so we can have Quorn meatballs and gravy....he's on nights so I feel mean waking him but I might have to.

wi3adora

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

<snip>so we can have Quorn meatballs and gravy...<snip>

Can I come to yours for tea? :rotfl:

I have no idea what to have? Have been of work ill since Monday and everytime I eat I feel sick

SugarSpun

GRR my baby has taken to scratching at me whenever she feels I am not paying her enough attention, and she will push clothing aside to make sure she has skin to scratch. I have all these sore red patches from trying to get dishes done/talk on the phone/check to see what we're out of in the fridge. This is combined with the little shiner she gave me this morning from headbutting me in the eye socket

delain

Hello all :hello:

aless02

SugarSpun wrote: »

GRR my baby has taken to scratching at me whenever she feels I am not paying her enough attention, and she will push clothing aside to make sure she has skin to scratch. I have all these sore red patches from trying to get dishes done/talk on the phone/check to see what we're out of in the fridge. This is combined with the little shiner she gave me this morning from headbutting me in the eye socket

LOL, you have a violent little child, SS! :rotfl: Did she get it from her mum or dad?

MadDogWoman_2

Work issues are on going and I need a break and some quality time with Katie.

elle_gee

Evening all..

Rhys is exactly the same, SS Particularly lying in bed in the morning (OH puts usually Rhys in with me when he gets up for work), when I won't wake up as fast as Rhys would like!

Susan, Asda have three pairs of tights in varying shades of pink up to 7-8yrs but the patterned type seemed to stop at 3-4yrs (I caught up, then nipped out to pick up an order I had delivered to store, so just checked for you - walking down the girly pink aisle distracted me from buying Rhys any more clothes! ).

:j and :grouphug: all round / as required..

My_Fathers_Daughter

kazzafromtheuk wrote: »

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.

Hi kazza - I hope you pop back to pick this up!

Would it be possible for you to get her a 'headstart' on making other friends by putting her in an activity where she will meet some of the girls who will go to her school next year? Like Brownies or swimming or dancing or gymnastics - but targetted as something where she could meet others.

My biggest defence against this kind of behaviour at junior school (and it was junior for me, I didn't experience it at all at senior school) was that I played in a brass band which meant I knew girls in the year above. So whenever I was 'out of favour' I had someone else to go to who my 'friends' were envious of - it made me less of a target.

I appreciate that she is the eldest in the school at the moment but if she has friends outside of school who she will meet up with next year it may give her some confidence at the moment and something to get her through the year.

Could you also suggest to her teacher that they do some general work about different types of bullying - DSS is 10 and he had some excellent homework last year which was a range of poems about different forms and ways of bullying and then he had to answer questions like 'how did x feel when he was made fun of' and 'why did y not speak up when they knew x was being bullied'

DSS found it quite hard to do the homework but it certainly got him thinking and we had a long discussion about whether he knew of any bullying in his school.

I hope things get better for her xxx

SugarSpun

aless02 wrote: »

LOL, you have a violent little child, SS! :rotfl: Did she get it from her mum or dad?

Yes

She also refuses to let me change her nappy, although she's happy for Husband to do it. I have no idea what will happen when it's just her and me all home all day.

Somnium

Evening all

Gill - you fairies arrived thankyou so much, will satrt plotting what to buy now

SJ - Your fairies arrived too, am gonna get started on it tonight but already had a look at all the cutie babies having a good nom

SS - eek at being scratched! T has nails I cant keep up with at the mo, she occasionally scratches me by accidnt and quite often gets her self, usually on the nose she looks like a lil bruiser sometimes.

Can I ask those of you with younger babies, what meal times do you have? As in are they set or is it whenever? We have no issues with breakfast here as its always not long after we get up but lunch and dinner fluctuate.

Succesful day getting perfume, picked up a 100ml bottle of ghost for £24.99 should have been £43 Also parked outside of town and took a walk in so got some good exercise. Hope the weather stays like this as my Mum and Stepdad are visiting this weekend and would be nice for us to get out and not be cramped indoors all weekend.