A Level Results - Parent Stress!
photonic69
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Dunno if any other folk on here were completely stressed out this morning by the above? Son was annoying nonchalantly cool about the whole affair whilst I was sweating it out with nausea and stomach issues like a bad dose of the Dengue Fever. I felt sick.
Off he trots and returns some hours later after being to the pub for a few pints with his mates and casually mentions he has 4 A* results! Bloomin' heck. The lad is brainy. Secured a place at Oxford too!
Feeling so totally relieved but I can now see any spending on bike related matter for me won't be happening for at least 4 more years! VVV Proud dad moment though.
Off he trots and returns some hours later after being to the pub for a few pints with his mates and casually mentions he has 4 A* results! Bloomin' heck. The lad is brainy. Secured a place at Oxford too!
Feeling so totally relieved but I can now see any spending on bike related matter for me won't be happening for at least 4 more years! VVV Proud dad moment though.
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Not this year, but the lad was given an unconditional offer if he didn't take a year off, or 3 A's if he deferred. He still deferred, got A* and 2 A's thankfully. He claimed he wasn't worried, us parents on the other hand...
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There was nothing that could be done to change anything at this point so why stress?
Son says 98% of his year have got into their first choice Unis, even if they didn't all quite get the grades in their offers. Given the size of the year, that means one person didn't!
Son and his mates are off clubbing tonight, and then he's working again tomorrow at 10.00 am.
Fantastic results for Photo Jnr, but just taking 4 A levels means he was going to do very well.
My elder daughter was far more stressful but her more than us. She’d decided that of all the offers she’d had the only one she was interested in was Manchester Uni and the closer we got to results day the more convinced she was that she wouldn’t get the grades. She had always wanted to join the police but they weren’t recruiting so in the last few days before results she’d started looking at joining the Army as an MP as her back up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
We've had a rollercoaster ride this academic year. My youngest was doing her A-levels and decided to up the pressure by applying to Oxford to maths. That didn't work out, and it was an awful process, as there was no set results day. She just got an email saying "Thanks but no thanks" one Saturday afternoon. She was at a swimming gala and the email landed just as she was heading to her blocks for her race. Despite crying through the whole race, that was actually her best outing of the weekend!
It took some effort for her to refocus, but she did. Mocks went well, as did most of the exams. And her first choice offer was quite "relaxed" relative to what she was likely to get. But even so, from the start of this week, I was a nervous wreck. (I think my "superpower" is to get nervous on behalf of the kids. My heart rate once exceeded 140 just watching a swimming race!)
My daughter is something of a perfectionist, and whilst she said she would be happy getting the grades to go to her first choice Uni, we all knew that there was only one set of results that would really satisfy her.
Work commitments meant that in the final hour before the results were released, I was out running with the dog, and this outlet for nervous energy saved me from spontaneous combustion I think. Thankfully the text from my daughter shortly after 8am was positive, but I think I aged several centuries, if not the whole thousand years this week.
Then of course the real worry kicked in - how wild was the celebration party going to be? Thankfully this ended OK, though I doubt the youngster will be straying too far from the sofa today!
#letskeepourjobs
#schoolsportsday
And huge kudos to all of you parents supporting them too!