Family Affairs and other matters

PARENT TEACHER MEETING

How sad. I have just been to my teenage son’s LAST parent teacher meeting tonight at his school.

I’ve been talking to his teachers for about 14 years – I started off having to talk to one – his nursery school teacher and then had to talk to millions of them at the same time during GCSE’s and now it’s been reduced back down to three subjects only – six teachers.

All good. He seems to be on track. I really struggle though to concentrate on what they are saying. Things barely make any sense. I don’t know whether it’s because the three subjects he is doing for AS level were my worst ones and I never understood them (Maths, Biology and Chemistry) OR that I have lost so many brain cells over the years I simply can’t relate to anything a teacher has to say.

Mostly, I didn’t understand what they were talking about – different modules and maths equations and chemistry formulae and so on and I only had one question to answer the whole time I was there and that was “Which road do you live in?” asked by a professor of Biology and guess what I said? I completely fucked up the answer – said I lived in an entirely different road – one two roads away from me – which at least began with the same letter, but apart from that – HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? My son looked horrifed “NO WE DON’T LIVE IN THAT ROAD” he said and I had to go “oh yes, sorry, you’re right, what was I thinking……”

What an idiot.

How I have managed to produce clever children I have no idea. (Builder Bloke has just read this and says it is nothing to do with me – it’s my ex husband’s genes – which I object to – obviously).

OMG ENGLAND VS GERMAY HALF TIME….WE WAS ROBBED

The air is blue. All 10 teenage boys are OUTRAGED. That goal was a yard in. Where is the technology? How can that have happened? Why not wait for two seconds before making the decision? This is very bad for the game in this day and age. Shit. Not fair. At least David James is [...]

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DELINQUENT CHILDREN

As I waited at the end of my road for the complete tosser, arsehole, idiot driver to come screeching towards me WAY too fast and turn into my road without indicating I had to completely revise my opinion. Because above mentioned tosser, arsehole, idiot was my son. Newly qualified. Looking smug and over-confident and taking hands off the wheel to wave at me in a blur on his way passed. It made me wish I still had him strapped into a buggy being pushed about by me and in my complete control and out of harms way. Although there was the occasional moment when even getting any of them into the buggy required a quiet karate chop to the stomach to make them bend in the middle.

HOW did he get to be so big and scary? I can’t bear the thought of anything happening to him or my other two and teenage drivers are just notoriously dangerous. My daughter wants him to drive her to their dad’s house this weekend. Down the motorway and I’ve said no. Again. I can’t cope with the thought of them being together in the car on a motorway when he’s been driving 5 minutes and easily distracted and now she’s pissed off and thinks I’m being ridiculous and it’s going to become an issue no doubt. I do hope my X backs me up on this one.

I wish they’d introduce the laws they have in the States about not being able to drive anybody the same age for a year and limiting numbers of passengers too. Although I have to say it’s pretty impressive that I so far haven’t been in the car with him – not whilst he was learning or since he passed his test – is that the sign of a shrewd parent or a rubbish disinterested one. Must make him take me for a drive as soon as he gets home from school.

Here is an interesting quote about children:-

“”The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers”.

Socrates 400 BC.

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NATS OFFICIAL STATEMENT: MONDAY APRIL 19TH 1530

Latest report sent by a friend in London, for those of you stuck in various parts of the world:- NATS official statement Statement on Icelandic volcanic eruption: Monday April 19, 1530 The volcanic eruption has reduced and the volcano is not currently emitting ash to altitudes that will affect the UK. Assuming there are no [...]

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IS JOHN TRAVOLTA STILL IN MELBOURNE???

OMG. Apparently John Travolta and I are finally in the same city at th same time. I have just had a text from a very good friend. A friend that is SO good they know that I need to be given the information that John Travolta is in Melbourne. IN THE SAME CITY AS ME. [...]

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FACEBOOK ADDICTION

I can now see why Facebook will continue to be a global phenomenon.  Whilst it remains a constant source of mystery and frustration for me that is certainly not the case for my children.  It’s their thing and they have no fear of rejection. I know there is an age restriction, but it has been [...]

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