Starting in year 7
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Bill
Re: Heavy Schoolbags
Thanks, Sally-Anne. Much appreciated. But I'll tell my daughter that it's you she has to thank! I bought her a rucksack this morning - we've already adjusted the straps etc and she'll be using it from tomorrow.
Hope you don't still suffer back pain from your accident.
Best wishes,
Bill
Hope you don't still suffer back pain from your accident.
Best wishes,
Bill
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Sally-Anne
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Hi Bill
Or blame, as the case may be! I don't know how "cool" a rucksack is these days - hopefully there is no issue.
Unfortunately the accident still causes me trouble. The specialist who finally diagnosed the problem mentioned that teenagers are particularly vulnerable to back problems because they are still growing, and the soft tissues are constantly having to adjust to that, and are therefore not as strong as they are in later life when they have "settled down". Hence the fact that an apparently minor accident in my early teens has rattled on through the years like this. The other thing he said was that girls are particularly vulnerable - any back problems in their teens come back to haunt them during pregnancy, and that is when my problem really showed up.
Two more good reasons for the rucksack!
Best wishes
Sally-Anne
Or blame, as the case may be! I don't know how "cool" a rucksack is these days - hopefully there is no issue.
Unfortunately the accident still causes me trouble. The specialist who finally diagnosed the problem mentioned that teenagers are particularly vulnerable to back problems because they are still growing, and the soft tissues are constantly having to adjust to that, and are therefore not as strong as they are in later life when they have "settled down". Hence the fact that an apparently minor accident in my early teens has rattled on through the years like this. The other thing he said was that girls are particularly vulnerable - any back problems in their teens come back to haunt them during pregnancy, and that is when my problem really showed up.
Two more good reasons for the rucksack!
Best wishes
Sally-Anne
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Bill
Re: Heavy Schoolbags
Thanks, Sally-Anne. My daughter likes the rucksack and feels that it is helping her. 
Best wishes,
Bill
Best wishes,
Bill
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Sally-Anne
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Bill
I'm so glad to hear that your daughter is adapting to the rucksack. I have just spent a day mostly standing, and I amused a lot of people with my apparent acrobatics in the break times to relieve back pain by lying on the floor and stretching! It's fine if you are one of later-life's fall-guys like me, but when you are trying to make your way in the world as a young person it isn't quite such a laugh!
Sally-Anne
I'm so glad to hear that your daughter is adapting to the rucksack. I have just spent a day mostly standing, and I amused a lot of people with my apparent acrobatics in the break times to relieve back pain by lying on the floor and stretching! It's fine if you are one of later-life's fall-guys like me, but when you are trying to make your way in the world as a young person it isn't quite such a laugh!
Sally-Anne
Rucksacks
Reading this thread brought back such happy memories of when my son started year 7. He had locker problems, bag problems, taking everything to school problems...but he loved every minute of it. He's now in year 10 and is a peer mentor. He went into school a day early from his summer holidays to help out with the year 7's generally and to specifically help three lads assigned to him. He made me laugh when he came home (he's over 6ft tall) and said, 'I introduced myself to two of my boys and then went looking for the third one, I eventually found him - he was tiny and looked like a moving rucksack. In fact at one point I wasn't even sure if there was a boy under there.' It still makes me smile.
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Bournemouth
Lovely! I was hoping my son might cycle to school - he just started in Year 7 this year but, as you say, the rucksack is much bigger than he is! I love dropping him off and watching him struggle off up the road! So sweet - it won't be long until is up with the older boys! Must take a photograph to show him when he's older.
OK, one quite funny incident from North London when I visited HABS, an independent selective school. A lovely lady was showing me around the premises (I was the only parent visiting that day) and I was quite impressed overall with the building, the library, the gardens, the classes, the pupils I spoke to, and everything was going so very smoothly.
As we were speaking at the front of one of the buildings, a tremendous noise started to approach us. I turned around and a saw a kid around 11/12 years old pulling a properly sized piece of luggage with wheels (you know like the ones that the airlines juuuuust allow business travellers to carry with them in the cabin, but in some cases don't)! I turned around and looked at my guide with a rather amazed expresion and she mumbled: "We have told them so many times that they do not have to carry everything with them everyday, but rather leave them in their lockers, but some insist in doing so..."
This was a bit scary, although everything else in my dealings with this school after that have convinced me that is an absoultely outstanding and happy school to which I would gladly sent my son to if he is offered a place.
INEX
As we were speaking at the front of one of the buildings, a tremendous noise started to approach us. I turned around and a saw a kid around 11/12 years old pulling a properly sized piece of luggage with wheels (you know like the ones that the airlines juuuuust allow business travellers to carry with them in the cabin, but in some cases don't)! I turned around and looked at my guide with a rather amazed expresion and she mumbled: "We have told them so many times that they do not have to carry everything with them everyday, but rather leave them in their lockers, but some insist in doing so..."
This was a bit scary, although everything else in my dealings with this school after that have convinced me that is an absoultely outstanding and happy school to which I would gladly sent my son to if he is offered a place.
INEX
Bournemouth wrote:Lovely! I was hoping my son might cycle to school - he just started in Year 7 this year but, as you say, the rucksack is much bigger than he is! I love dropping him off and watching him struggle off up the road! So sweet - it won't be long until is up with the older boys! Must take a photograph to show him when he's older.
sj355
SJ that did make me laugh - I could just see it! Well written! It will be wonderful if your son gets offered a place - the school sounds great!
Bournemouth: treasure those memories in your mind.
You absolutely must take some pictures of your son, because the boys grow so fast in just a few short years. My son now laughs at his year 7 picture; standing there with a little tubby belly, soft round face and sticking out teeth...bearing very little resemblance to the year 10, tall, lean, firm-jawed, straight-toothed, deep-voiced young man with a hint of moustache!
Where does the time go???
Bournemouth: treasure those memories in your mind.
You absolutely must take some pictures of your son, because the boys grow so fast in just a few short years. My son now laughs at his year 7 picture; standing there with a little tubby belly, soft round face and sticking out teeth...bearing very little resemblance to the year 10, tall, lean, firm-jawed, straight-toothed, deep-voiced young man with a hint of moustache!Where does the time go???
