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11 Sep
10:28pm, 11 Sep 2024
69,703 posts
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LindsD
Thank you. Glad it's not just us. So frustrating.
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11 Sep
10:50pm, 11 Sep 2024
15,022 posts
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sallykate
Daughter's just presented me with four loads of washing to do.
She could have told me a bit earlier that it needed doing! We need to be packed and ready to travel by tomorrow evening.
It's also proving quite the challenge to convince her that she really does NOT need everything (including the kitchen sink) when she starts university.
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11 Sep
10:59pm, 11 Sep 2024
69,705 posts
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LindsD
Grrrr.....
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12 Sep
6:50am, 12 Sep 2024
25,046 posts
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Meglet
Our experience was the storage in uni halls was very limited, so definitely try not to take too many clothes! She can swap over at holidays anyway. My daughters did take loads, I had a car-full both times and there was more when they came back!
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12 Sep
9:53am, 12 Sep 2024
6,432 posts
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Groundhog
Son is back in Bristol and probably won't be home again before starting 3rd year. He has some training ahead of fresher's week as he is helping set up a refugee awareness society with help from a local charity.
Daughter is getting herself ready for first year at uni with very little input needed from us. She mostly went round the local charity shops for all her kitchen gear and has everything packed already. She's excited and nervous, like her friends. Empty nest from Saturday.
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12 Sep
2:50pm, 12 Sep 2024
69,709 posts
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LindsD
Wow. Good luck to them and you.
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13 Sep
12:43pm, 13 Sep 2024
69,733 posts
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LindsD
Just dropped LittleD at school where she is signing a form for remark. She said she was sick with nerves about going in. She is always anxious about what to say to people. Is there anything I can do about this level of anxiety or is it just a case of her having experiences and learning she can navigate the world. I get that evem familiar places can make you anxious when you are feeling mentally unwell. Hell, I even struggled at parkrun when it was me, but I think she's in an OK place at the moment generally.
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13 Sep
12:43pm, 13 Sep 2024
69,734 posts
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LindsD
*a remark
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13 Sep
12:51pm, 13 Sep 2024
11,484 posts
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MabelMoonface
It may be more related to anxiety around school that's making this worse today. In general, Sweetpea found that the more she did, the more she was able to do. Her connecting train was cancelled the first time she came home from uni but she managed to find someone at the station who talked her through which trains were running and she got home in the end. Since then her confidence has really blossomed, but I doubt she could go back into her high school without feeling overwhelming anxiety.
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13 Sep
12:53pm, 13 Sep 2024
11,485 posts
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MabelMoonface
We gave her some ideas of what to say (specific words were better than "say something like this" comments)
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Assisting teens in choosing university for 2021 during a pandemic
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