Comments on: Taking off into the unknown….. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/ "We learn from our experience.....if we reflect upon our experience" John Dewey Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:10:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Don Ledingham http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11338 Don Ledingham Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:43:55 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11338 Ewan I hope Douglas lives up to this photograph throughout his life!! Ewan

I hope Douglas lives up to this photograph throughout his life!!

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11335 Ewan McIntosh Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:30:15 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11335 I love the picture. Warning signs are there to be ignored (or tested out in safety of the day when the other lads aren't watching). For a man who likes his metaphors, you've got a year's worth in there at least! ;-) I love the picture. Warning signs are there to be ignored (or tested out in safety of the day when the other lads aren’t watching). For a man who likes his metaphors, you’ve got a year’s worth in there at least! ;-)

]]> By: Con http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11316 Con Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:39:20 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11316 I remember my daughter announcing she had landed a plum job with HBOS after getting a well-deserved degree in one breath and then in the next telling me she had knocked it back unless they agreed to defer it for a year. They did and she took herself off around the world! One thing I do know is that I know more of her life that year than I have done since she was a little girl as she took the time to phone, email and post pictures on Yahoo of all her adventures. Hurrah for technology! My 2 boys seem more like homebirds at the moment, but time will tell! I remember my daughter announcing she had landed a plum job with HBOS after getting a well-deserved degree in one breath and then in the next telling me she had knocked it back unless they agreed to defer it for a year. They did and she took herself off around the world!

One thing I do know is that I know more of her life that year than I have done since she was a little girl as she took the time to phone, email and post pictures on Yahoo of all her adventures. Hurrah for technology!

My 2 boys seem more like homebirds at the moment, but time will tell!

]]> By: Mark Walker http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11314 Mark Walker Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:15:02 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11314 Don and Doug Glad to see you made it back home Doug! Hope the rugby game you saw before you headed off was good - welcome any time and keep in touch! Don and Doug

Glad to see you made it back home Doug! Hope the rugby game you saw before you headed off was good - welcome any time and keep in touch!

]]> By: Ian Stuart http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11306 Ian Stuart Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:54:24 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11306 Just like the beach rugby on Islay ;-) Just like the beach rugby on Islay ;-)

]]> By: Don Ledingham http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11304 Don Ledingham Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:16:54 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11304 Dorothy You're right to be wary of gender stereotyping but the differences between boys and girls sometimes seem too significant to ignore. What's right for one person will be wrong for another. Hope all works out well for your daughter. Dorothy

You’re right to be wary of gender stereotyping but the differences between boys and girls sometimes seem too significant to ignore.

What’s right for one person will be wrong for another.

Hope all works out well for your daughter.

]]> By: Dorothy http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2008/08/03/taking-off-into-the-unknown/#comment-11303 Dorothy Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:40:26 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/?p=898#comment-11303 Sounds as if he's had a great year and gained all the benefits you hope a post-school year out will confer on them. Whereas my gender-stereotypical, very organised younger daughter, now 24, first gained her degree, worked as a waitress for a year to get some money of her own and is now about to go off to New Zealand for a year with some practical life skills to see her through the experience. I can see that she will make more of the year away in the big wide world because of the perspective her maturity gives her. Perhaps it is selfish of me to be pleased that she is doing her thing in this step-by-step way. Her University experience would inevitably have been different doing it the other way round. Which would be more beneficial to her and the world? Time will tell I suppose, and generalisations are probably not useful. Like yours. my younger son has also deferred his University place till 2009. I'm with your wife in looking at this photo of your son! While I'm smiling at the utter exuberance captured there, it scares the hell out of me! Dorothy Sounds as if he’s had a great year and gained all the benefits you hope a post-school year out will confer on them.

Whereas my gender-stereotypical, very organised younger daughter, now 24, first gained her degree, worked as a waitress for a year to get some money of her own and is now about to go off to New Zealand for a year with some practical life skills to see her through the experience. I can see that she will make more of the year away in the big wide world because of the perspective her maturity gives her. Perhaps it is selfish of me to be pleased that she is doing her thing in this step-by-step way.

Her University experience would inevitably have been different doing it the other way round. Which would be more beneficial to her and the world? Time will tell I suppose, and generalisations are probably not useful.

Like yours. my younger son has also deferred his University place till 2009. I’m with your wife in looking at this photo of your son! While I’m smiling at the utter exuberance captured there, it scares the hell out of me!

Dorothy

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