Fringe Skills
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Fringe Skills
As we head towards E(xam) day, can you add to this list of fringe skills that my DC has been honing to an ever higher level with each session of help/tutoring that they undertake with me?
1. Pencil dropping on the floor;
2. Rubber dropping on the floor;
3. Turner Prize level pencil doodling on their rubber;
4. Oscar winning yawning;
5. Asking for another drink;
6. Going to the toilet again;
7. Saying that they're too hot;
8. Saying that they're too cold;
9. Asking for the window to be opened;
10. Asking for the window to be closed;
11. Saying that the fridge in the kitchen is making that funny buzzing noise again;
12. Saying that their school doesn't teach them to do multiplication/division/pencil holding/line drawing/etc./etc. that way;
13. All other forms of creative time-wasting.
Oh the "joy" that we shall no longer have to endure once E day has been and gone !!
1. Pencil dropping on the floor;
2. Rubber dropping on the floor;
3. Turner Prize level pencil doodling on their rubber;
4. Oscar winning yawning;
5. Asking for another drink;
6. Going to the toilet again;
7. Saying that they're too hot;
8. Saying that they're too cold;
9. Asking for the window to be opened;
10. Asking for the window to be closed;
11. Saying that the fridge in the kitchen is making that funny buzzing noise again;
12. Saying that their school doesn't teach them to do multiplication/division/pencil holding/line drawing/etc./etc. that way;
13. All other forms of creative time-wasting.
Oh the "joy" that we shall no longer have to endure once E day has been and gone !!
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Those are skills that will be important to the moving through senior school, GCSEs, A levels etc. Mine have perfected them over the years & I would now consider them experts. Hopefully you will soon be able to add "Wifi too slow to access My Maths" and "Stupid computer lost my essay before I had saved it".
scary mum
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"I'm waiting for my friends to log on as its a group project"
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...suddenly deciding that it is imperative to hairdry hair, rather than quick towel over, is my DS's latest delaying tactic...he is well past 11+ though!!
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No serial biscuit eating either? A mere lightweight at the game!
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DD1 entering 2nd year of Uni and these are still the most used skill she learned from the 11+. Currently 'I need to pack' no, she doesn't, as she didn't really unpack when she came home for the summer, apart from her washing of course
mad?
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Don't mock a good excuse.
I have been using all those myself for quite a while as I have been promising to hoover under DS's bed since the first week of the holidays " To get it all nice for him for the summer " . He goes back to school tomorrow and I have yet to get anywhere close to even heaving the bloomin Dyson anywhere near his bedroom door.
God knows what I will find growing there when I eventually get around to it, at Easter I found his body weight in olive pips and 200 penguin wrappers...
I have been using all those myself for quite a while as I have been promising to hoover under DS's bed since the first week of the holidays " To get it all nice for him for the summer " . He goes back to school tomorrow and I have yet to get anywhere close to even heaving the bloomin Dyson anywhere near his bedroom door.
God knows what I will find growing there when I eventually get around to it, at Easter I found his body weight in olive pips and 200 penguin wrappers...
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I'd be happy about the olive pips, a sophisticated European in the making!marigold wrote:Don't mock a good excuse.
I have been using all those myself for quite a while as I have been promising to hoover under DS's bed since the first week of the holidays " To get it all nice for him for the summer " . He goes back to school tomorrow and I have yet to get anywhere close to even heaving the bloomin Dyson anywhere near his bedroom door.
God knows what I will find growing there when I eventually get around to it, at Easter I found his body weight in olive pips and 200 penguin wrappers...
mad?
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I can't begin to tell you what someone I know found in a boot hung up on her son's wall when he went to university
(Maybe this should be in rehab?)
(Maybe this should be in rehab?)
scary mum