Blog posts for ‘Letting go’ 
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How will she survive?
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Categories: Growing up, Higher Education, Letting go, Teenagers
Apparently research shows that many university Freshers lack basic life skills, having never before cooked, cleaned or shopped for food. The Independent 26/9/11 We are clearly meant to find this shocking but if we think back to our younger selves could we have said any different? Like nearly 70% of those questioned for Sainsbury’s research I certainly hadn’t paid a utility bill when I was 18. It’s true that, unlike one in five of them, I had cleaned a bath but I too hadn’t done my...
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First day blues...
Sunday 28 August 2011
Categories: Education, Family Relationships, Letting go
The beginning of the new school year in September is an emotionally laden time for many of us particularly those whose children are moving from one stage to another. For the very youngest children September brings their first opportunity to play and learn away from home. Most children approach this experience with confidence and enthusiasm; it is often the parents who find it traumatic.
Although some children are in a care setting from an early age, many are not. Those few years of...
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Young people need adventure as well as exam results!
Monday 20 September 2010
Categories: Education, Extra curricular, Letting go, Personal Safety
Education isn’t just about academic achievement. Of course it is important but, in an increasingly competitive world, it is often the other aspects of a young person’s CV that will set them apart and give them extra appeal – either as a potential employee or as a student.
Every pupil has to study the three Rs at school but not everyone chooses to engage in extra curricula activities like learning to play an instrument, taking to the stage, being part of a sports team or doing the...
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Cotton wool chokes...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Categories: Growing up, Letting go, Media Influence, Parenting, Personal Safety
Our children are our most precious possession… and yet, of course, we don’t possess them. We bear them, nurture them, treasure them and continue to worry about them long after they leave our home and make their own. They enchant and frustrate us; delight and terrify us. At every stage of their lives we try to provide for and protect them. So when there is a media story about a dreadful fate befalling a child our deepest fears are aroused.
The urge to defend and protect our young is a...
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Cycling to school alone - parents & schools in conflict
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Categories: Letting go, Parenting, Personal Safety
The story of the Dulwich family and the school in conflict over the cycling to school of the two young children has thrown up a number of interesting issues. (Daily Mail July 7th 2010)
Whose call is it to decide how safe a school-related activity is, and can the school “pull rank” over the parents and insist that an activity is unreasonably dangerous, even if the parents disagree?
The controversy this has caused confirms that this is clearly not a simple question with an obvious answer....
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