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MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi all

We absolutely don't tolerate bullying. If you feel someone has posted inappropriately anywhere on the Forum please use the report button.

Thanks!

Andrea

The bullying takes many forms though. It isn't always as overt as someone writing an abusive or expletive-laden post. You get people forming cliques and ganging up on another member, and/or using the thanks-button to point-score for example. (In one particular thread I think someone got about 87 thanks!! not, I suspect, because the post was helpful, but because a gang of them were going in and hitting the thanks button to show they agree with that person)

MSE is primarily a money-saving website and understandably MSE Towers has limited resources when it comes to 'policing' this kind of thing (for want of a better word) but I just wanted to point out that in many cases it is not really possible or appropriate to report an individual post, in which case there is not much the forum team can do about it.

pickledonionspaceraider

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Ol_Jay

Seems a bit ironic tbh,that this thread is still alive when the OP said they wish it to be deleted. Other popular threads were deleted for reasons I don't really understand. Maybe showing my newbieishness (is that a word?)

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Ol_Jay wrote: »

Seems a bit ironic tbh,that this thread is still alive when the OP said they wish it to be deleted. Other popular threads were deleted for reasons I don't really understand. Maybe showing my newbieishness (is that a word?)

It is now

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Son went off again yesterday & it's very quiet & strange again.

jackieblack

Took daughter yesterday, long day, tiring both physically and emotionally. I was very good and managed to hold it together until after we've left the campus.
House seems very quiet, but I'll get used to it. She sounds happy, which is the most important thing.

peaceandfreedom

jackieblack wrote: »

Took daughter yesterday, long day, tiring both physically and emotionally. I was very good and managed to hold it together until after we've left the campus.
House seems very quiet, but I'll get used to it. She sounds happy, which is the most important thing.

You will get used to it and hopefully your daughter will have a wonderful time.

I think the going-up-to-uni journey is quite emotional for all concerned. Just being on the motorway and seeing all those cars packed to the gills with 'stuff' and one sole teenager squashed in among it all in the back - it quite brought a tear to my eye. It's a momentous day for them and for us.

Unless our children live with us forever (perish the thought :eek:) our houses are going to get quieter and quieter, just as they got noisier and noisier as each child turned up. Just the way life is.

VJsmum

We have one more week. I kind of wish she had gone this weekend - not cos I want to get rid of her, but because all of her friends have now gone.

I am dreading it a bit. I kind of want it over and done with - then we have to get on with it.

lulalola

Like others have said, you will get used to it! Think my parents would be horrified if I asked to move back home now :rotfl:

louisemichelle

I hope the OP has been back to see these messages. Well... at least the non-fabricated ones!

I remember my mum crying when she dropped me off at uni over ten years ago... and again when I trundled off to Australia for 6 months (which turned into 3 years). It was hard for me to leave as my dad has a chronic illness and had been particularly unwell at the time of my departure, and like the OP she juggles working full time with caring, but despite how she was obviously feeling she encouraged me to go out and see a bit of the world because she wanted me to have the best life I could have and take advantage of every good opportunity I was offered. I'll always be immensely grateful for that- as I'm sure the OP's child will be too- if my mum had said she'd rather I didn't go, I would have stayed.

In saying that, here I am, back from Australia, living in her house with my partner until we can find somewhere nearby so I can help care for my dad, and with her first grandchild due in 6 weeks! She's probably wishing she could drop me back off at student halls I hope when/if it comes to it, I'll be able to be as supportive as my mum (and the OP) was.