Re: 2017 04 Happy April!
Posted: April 8th, 2017, 5:25 pm
I am sorry about your troubles with your daughter, Anne-Marie. They never stop being a worry, do they? It is so hard to know how to help them. Sometimes I think it must be easiest of one has nothing but a happy home, so the children work and strive and achieve for themselves, and then turn round and take pride in supporting their aged parents. I suppose that is the natural way, really. Doing it the other way round, giving them a hand up, doesn't seem to work for some children, they start to expect it and resent it not being more. I do hope once the house is gone you will have less on your plate and be able to get on better with your daughter.
Yes TJ has been a worry in the past and will no doubt be again. He is still very hard work to live with. However today is a happy day. As I write he is on the transport home with his maroon beret. Of the 40 who started the Pre-Parachute Selection course, 12 passed. TJ was awarded the title of P Company Champion. I am so happy for him! He hoped to pass; he never dreamed of coming top! They make a big deal of being top student on military courses. It is part of reinforcing the importance of winning, I suppose; there are no prizes for coming second in a battle. Fancy it being TJ, though!
Right, that a good job done of supporting him through P Company. Now to help him start the appeal process against his rejection for the Army on medical grounds and also do anything that might help him get stuck into the slog of revision for Finals. His plan was to put on a sudden spurt of improvement and get a First. He is cutting is quite fine.
Meanwhile I must crack on with my jobs list. TJ will be here over Easter; I shall pretend it matters to have things done before he arrives, and make that a deadline.
T
Yes TJ has been a worry in the past and will no doubt be again. He is still very hard work to live with. However today is a happy day. As I write he is on the transport home with his maroon beret. Of the 40 who started the Pre-Parachute Selection course, 12 passed. TJ was awarded the title of P Company Champion. I am so happy for him! He hoped to pass; he never dreamed of coming top! They make a big deal of being top student on military courses. It is part of reinforcing the importance of winning, I suppose; there are no prizes for coming second in a battle. Fancy it being TJ, though!
Right, that a good job done of supporting him through P Company. Now to help him start the appeal process against his rejection for the Army on medical grounds and also do anything that might help him get stuck into the slog of revision for Finals. His plan was to put on a sudden spurt of improvement and get a First. He is cutting is quite fine.
Meanwhile I must crack on with my jobs list. TJ will be here over Easter; I shall pretend it matters to have things done before he arrives, and make that a deadline.
T