MSE Parents Club Part 15

Jakesmummy

Morning all, not read all the way back yet sorry,

susan im angry on your behalf at emmas diary, grr.. i wonder if they have a contact number? im not good at writing eloquent emails but i would call them for you?

redstar, glad you're all moved, bless your LO, hope she settles well at the new school!

off to read back xx

searching_me

read back abit ..
susan i hope they sort it out very :mad: for you ((hugs)) ...
aless that sounds lovely ..
weezl if you like writing angry email do one for my boss hes a complete fool or words to that effect ...
red glad move went well remember we moved took zoe abit to get used to but A is young enough to make new best friends ..
mdw hope you get the fab job ..

not completely happy here ..

zoes hid all her letters in her book bag and ive found LOAD! going back to october ... means ive missed her xmas play because of it as well as she left it to late to give me the letter and now theres no tickets ... its her xmas part today as well and shes left the pack of biscuits on the bottom of the stairs as she put her shoes on there and left them .. dont know how hungry she'll be when she gets back as well if they're doing a party so *shrug* also got a text from school saying they're closed friday so not bad ...

jayden will not allow us to go in to kitchen and leave with a) no food and b) no food for him ... and woe betided you if you do ... tantrum glore ... greedy little man ...

all this and i have no milk for a cuppa and theres no point buying any as shopping is due at 4pm ... suppose i can wait x

weezl74

On the radio yesterday there was a discussion about whether parents of babies now should be rethinking their savings strategies in the light of possible future changes to university education.

I wondered what you guys were all thinking of doing, if your children going to uni is something you'd like, that is!

Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to share their thoughts on this.

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

On the radio yesterday there was a discussion about whether parents of babies now should be rethinking their savings strategies in the light of possible future changes to university education.

I wondered what you guys were all thinking of doing, if your children going to uni is something you'd like, that is!

Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to share their thoughts on this.

I'm thinking that dependent on what their long term plans are, OU may be a more cost effective option.

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

I'm thinking that dependent on what their long term plans are, OU may be a more cost effective option.

interesting!

And have you got plans to save for the fees, or another idea in mind?

MERFE

MadDogWoman wrote: »

Morning everyone,


Merfe - I holidayed in the Scillies from the age of 9 - 18 and I love the place Not too keen on the Scillonion though makes me poorly The plane is fun, never attempted the helicopter.

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the helicopter is what I took DD on age 4 months, she just slept even through the noise. I've not been on the plane and the scillionian makes us all sick too, we try to sleep for as much as possible. In 2002 I spent the summer working at the starcastle, best summer ever.

Well I'm just waiting for OH to get home, could be a couple of hours, but he needs to watch the baby so I can go to hospital and they are going to drain my boob so at least it will be sorted.

kitkat5566

tiamai_d wrote: »

It is one of the things that is mentioned on the sheet you signed as a risk. Don't know officially how common it is though. SIL has a bad back from her spinal (em c section after fetal distress). My back was fine after the epidural with DS1 (however that may be because it wasn't in my spine properly). But yeah, after Amber (spinal for C section) it was pretty sore. Calmed down now and most of the past few months was to do with my bed. Still gets stiff once a month for a few days.

You can go and see your GP about it, get some physio. It usually does get better though.

Thanks Tia funnily enough I didn't sign anything... I didn't even know I was having one, I was told to sit up and keep still, next thing I remember going numb. I didn't have a c section. Might ask OH what he remembers. Thanks for the tip on physio. Some days the pain is awful

Red well done on moving! Hope it wasn't too stressful.

T woke me 3am I tried not to go to him straight away then I felt awful as he was soaked thru. He then polished off 240mls and wanted more. He then woke 8.45am and took another 240mls no problem. Could he be gearing up to be weaned? Or is this just the growth spurt?! I don't particularly want to wean before 6 months, maybe earliest new year, but milk really doesn't seem to satisfy him anymore.

searching_me

weezl starting from next year i was rethinking my saving for us as a family and then seperately for the kids anyway .. this has doubly (sp?) made me think x

MERFE

My older two already have savings account and we save what we can for them already which is not alot. Their birthday money or christmas money normally goes in there too unless they just got clothes and there is a toy they want then I let them buy it. Hopefully they will use the money wiseley when they are older but they will probably blow the lot. TBH they will be lucky if its enough to cover driving lessons and towards a first car, which can be more worthwhile than a degree (I have one, it was in a science and it is worthless to me).

MERFE

As a plus bobby got his £50 CTF voucher through the post yesterday and since the older twos have performed so badly he is probably going to be starting at a level playing field lol. I never put more money in these accounts and always just considered whatever they got at the end a bonus.