Skool Daze!

With all my children now at school I have been thinking back to my own school days :)

And I wonder if I was the only person who loved school?

It was the ultimate in socialising hang-out! What was not to love? Yeah, sure, the lessons got in the way sometimes...but soon the bell would go and the talking would start.

I never bunked off/skived off once....ok thinking back i'm talking from age 4-16 here....16-18 is a whole other kettle of fish :D  By then I had a car, had smokes, had music and had 2 friends Scott and Nathan whom i blame entirely for my misbehaviour ;p It worked out ok for them...one is an Army sergeant type thing and the other is an amazing bass player/teacher.

I would wake up every morning looking forward to every lesson to catch up with everyone. This is the days  before computers (we had BBC Acorns at school, but they don't really count!), and before the days of mobile phones. so the hours of 8:35am-2:45pm were my life!

I had no clique, I was friendly with everyone, and everyone accepted me as I was...dyed black hair, pink duffle coat, weirdo ways, the lot!  :) Or maybe they didn't accept me...but luckily I have never really cared about what others think about me, so never noticed.

I write all this because my eldest daughter detests school and at the start of every year she gets upset and begs to be home-schooled. This year is even worse because she has been put down a set in Maths and Science and as she wants to be a Doctor, to her gloomy pessemistic brain, this is the end of the world. Also a boy who 'bothers' her seems to be in all her classes. This poor boy basically just fancies her like mad but his 13 year old brain thinks that if he makes comment about her body, that she'll suddenly fall madly in love with him :D
Somehow this has all become my fault....I don't care enough...and why am I not the perfect Mother she craves?

Am I the only one who transition through these first 15/16 years without drama?

Even as my mind started to mess with me from the age of 13, school became my rock. I wish I could fix this for my daughter :(

Love,
Paula xx