MSE Parents Club Part 15

jillie1974

SugarSpun wrote: »

Jillie, is there an Irish centre in Manchester? I know some people who did Irish classes at the St Michaels centre in Liverpool so if there's one local to you they might be good people to learn to know (learn to know! sorry, how German of me ).

Also, An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti* an leithreas?!

*no fada, MSE says no.

Also, there's 10% off Butler's chocolates till Friday with a code on pigsback IE, nomnomnom.

there is....i have looked on their website already

Ta (no fada)

r.mac_2

Evansangel wrote: »

Evening everyone

I want to send Lily to private school because i think the schools here are shoddy. But DH said that if she wants to learn she will whether it be at a private or a public school. Im going to encourage her as much as i can, i cant wait for her to be bringing home homework!

I sometimes feel like im pushing her now, (as in people often make me feel bad about it) I am always trying to teach her to stand on her own, or to clap, or to say words. But some people just say "she will learn when she's ready" or "she's only 9 months old she has ages to learn that stuff"

Edit: dont know if anyone is thinking of getting SKYtv but the offer at the moment 'Order before the 17th and you get installed before xmas' is a bit of a lie. Most install dates are booked fully until after xmas now, and have been for weeks.

I don't think you are pushy. I think what people mean is that children will DO it when they are ready. BUT I believe that for them to be ready it helps for them to be shown, encouraged and praised.

Perhaps to some that may make me pushy, but I don't think so :cool:

SusanC_2

As long as they are enjoying what you are teaching them and you're not forcing them to spend loads of time doing something they don't want to do then it's not being pushy.

Evansangel

She loves it, when she falls from standing position she laughs so i try to stand her back up so she can pretend to fall and laugh again.
We got progress today when i asked her to say Mama. She said 'Maaa' but then she tried to slap me..

CAFCGirl

EA - I think some of the difference with being a pushy parent is whether or not we try to teach our kids to do these things because we think they are ready to learn/growing in confidence or wanting to teach them these things so we can say "well little johnnie was reading shakespeare on the way out of my v-jay-jay"

If learning is fun and engaging then kids will do it, i mean basically every game we play with them as babies is effectively teaching them, and then it just goes on from there but i think its important to go at their speed, give them time to perfect a skill before moving on too quickly, and all the time that it is fun for everyone, its surely a good thing

thats my tuppence worth anyway.....

Evansangel

I agree cafc, and the shakespear reference made me laugh. My mum and her cousin had a baby at pretty much the same time and the competition between them was ridiculous.

I think Lily is ready to stand alone, she just lacks confidence and its my fault for gasping so loudly and scaring her the first time she stood alone.

redmel1621

r.mac, thanks for the scarf set ideas...I really like the M&S one, although dh isn't sure, he said he has never seen his mum wear spots so isn't sure she likes them...there is a plain pinkish one on there though so might go for that one.


Two smalls in bed, two biggies eating toast and they will be shooed off to bed in about 20mins....I am then going to soak in the bath for hours and lock the door so everyone can just booger off and leave me alone..I am so poorly ill and everyone just wants things all the time, I get no peace. Dh has also caught the flu now too, he went to pick up ds2 from school and threw up on the way:( Luckily he had gone the shortcut way, which is across a field. Ds1 is going back to school tomorrow, he seems much better, but still has a cough! AND T has been coughing today, I hope she doesn't end up bad again...I don't think I can cope with anymore illness, especially while I am feeling like this, I am utterly exhausted!

xx

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

Some of the parents don't speak welsh, but I understand the issue there is that the Welsh-speaking mums can tend to ignore those mums, perhaps seeing them as exploiting welsh school for the wrong reasons (to get the child out of dodgy english speaking school, rather than a belief in keeping Welsh going as an educative language).

Do you think it's that or just that they want to speak in Welsh? I understand from friends that some Welsh-speakers feel very strongly about Welsh to the point that they feel that a group of people shouldn't be obliged to speak English instead just because one person can't speak Welsh. (Which from a pragmatic maintaining the language point of view makes sense but obviously isn't very nice on a personal level.) Also (although I wouldn't think this would apply to parents sending their child to a Welsh medium school) I've been told that often people who can't speak Welsh aren't supportive of people who are raising their children to speak Welsh so that could also be a factor.

redstararnie76

I know, as an English student attending a Welsh university (Aberystwyth), that there can be quite a lot of hostility in general. I've walked into certain pubs with other English students, and although everyone is speaking English when we walk in, suddenly they will all be talking Welsh! This is however, in certain areas. I was also welcomed incredibly warmly in other areas and I have very fond memories of studying there.

cazscoob

I ache all over but on the plus side my house is spick and span, floors cleaned, carpets cleaned, walls touched up and everything all put away where it should be
Has anyone had problems with cilit bang as it has taken the skin off my hands?

My kids go to the local school, my intention was to keep them where they were at the Catholic school but we felt that being in a village is hard enough without going to school elsewhere? We have a private school in the next village its a beautiful big old school mainly for boarding but the kids dont seem to have many friends in the villages as they are kindof pushed out of the village school group IYKWIM

Hmmmm boarding school takes them from 3 and C is 3 in jan PMSL!!!