Comments on: Growing up http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/ A Parent's Perspective from a Ross High Mum Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: guineapigmum http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-782 guineapigmum Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:04:09 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-782 Hello Random Mum. What's happened to your blog? Suitcases are packed - maybe a little too big for a hot holiday chez family where we don't need to take much but never mind. I don't think there's much danger of eldest son buying hair straighteners. Now, the girls buying tehm for him - that's an entirely different matter! And I too remember that first solo trip to town. Hello Random Mum. What’s happened to your blog? Suitcases are packed - maybe a little too big for a hot holiday chez family where we don’t need to take much but never mind. I don’t think there’s much danger of eldest son buying hair straighteners. Now, the girls buying tehm for him - that’s an entirely different matter! And I too remember that first solo trip to town.

]]> By: Random Mum http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-779 Random Mum Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:19:51 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-779 We've been there and done that on the suitcases front and it's one of the hardest things to buy! We bought some cases last year, brought them home, took them for a wee test drive round the kitchen, decided they were the wrong size and returned them to the shop. My 15-year old daughter and I both laughed at the story of GP1 and the JOOP, but probably for different reasons. She says "Lynx is well nice and the boys at school wear it." On the hair straighteners front, tell him not to buy the really expensive ones but make sure the ones he does buy have solid ceramic plates and curved edges, and preferably that they switch themselves off after a certain amount of time. And GPM, you will get used to the smell of burning hair every morning, evening, and other times too! The event that made me realise my daughter was growing up was her first trip to town and the cinema with friends rather than parents. That was three years ago and I still remember how anxious I felt! We’ve been there and done that on the suitcases front and it’s one of the hardest things to buy! We bought some cases last year, brought them home, took them for a wee test drive round the kitchen, decided they were the wrong size and returned them to the shop.

My 15-year old daughter and I both laughed at the story of GP1 and the JOOP, but probably for different reasons. She says “Lynx is well nice and the boys at school wear it.”

On the hair straighteners front, tell him not to buy the really expensive ones but make sure the ones he does buy have solid ceramic plates and curved edges, and preferably that they switch themselves off after a certain amount of time. And GPM, you will get used to the smell of burning hair every morning, evening, and other times too!

The event that made me realise my daughter was growing up was her first trip to town and the cinema with friends rather than parents. That was three years ago and I still remember how anxious I felt!

]]> By: guineapigmum http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-778 guineapigmum Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:35:26 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-778 Yes, there surely has to be some way to make maths revision classes sexy? Yes, there surely has to be some way to make maths revision classes sexy?

]]> By: David Gilmour http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-777 David Gilmour Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:10:01 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2008/03/19/growing-up/#comment-777 What amazes me is how needs like this can get so effectively implanted in the brains of our young people. Maybe there's a lesson there somewhere for how we market school courses? What amazes me is how needs like this can get so effectively implanted in the brains of our young people. Maybe there’s a lesson there somewhere for how we market school courses?

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