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@Catcakes My daughter is 15, she loves musicals. She can sing beautifully (operatic voice lessons), she can dance (ballet, tap, contemporary, jazz) but quit lessons this year due to not being able to cope and she loves drama, she came second in her year where all other subjects she almost failed (she is in the top class 😞 ).

Last years school musical she cried before and after every single performance and practice 😞 cripling social anxiety. She has had weekly therapy and is getting it under control and is enjoying this years musical. Sadly she should have got a big roll but they only gave her one very small singing part due to what happened last year. She did wonderfully on stage just cost her a lot on emotional issues, they practice for three terms one day a week for 3 hours and a solid week in the school holidays. It was pure hell getting her to practices. This musical she has been happily going to practice (they start term 4 last year).

Thank goodness for ICHAMS and medication she has come a long way - though due to her illness she is up and down (still tweeking meds)

@Catcakes Our school provides EVERYTHING, even a pencil case with basic stationery. Not that that's cool to use lol. Even sheets of paper to cover their exercise books!!! Thank goodness in year 11 and 12 you don't have to cover books!. My daughter is going into year 10 so last year of covering books 🙂

I remember my days at school getting text books and stationery. I did get my daughter a Mimco pencil case for Christmas 🙂 the only things they could have different to everyone is sports bag and pencil case. As of this year you have to use the school issue sport bag. Last year she got a mimco bag to use for sport and drama. She was sooo upset about not being able to use her mimco bag I bought her the pencil case (I got it discounted 30% off and I had bonus money on my account so it wasn't much more than a trendy surf pencil case)

@Faith-and-Hope my son starts uni this year and I'm sooooo scared, my husband and I didn't go and I don't know anyone who has a child that has been (we don't have many friends).

@Faith-and-Hope I'm sure he will be fine, me lol...

The last two years of school I've not really had any input or even helped him because his subjects were way above my intellectual level lol He applied to uni, knew scores and everything that entails without any input from us and he didn't even tell us he did it. I only found out the other day that he is looking long term at working for Lockheed and Martin - IN USA He is doing mechanical engineering - hoping to do aeronautics. Poor kid he is 18 and still asks if he can have food in the fridge or go out with his friends (which he doesn't really do anyway)...

Oh and he picks up his sister everyday as we are 15 mins drive to the school but due to where we live the bus takes 1 and half hours to get to our house. I'm dreading him not being able to pick her up 😞 He also has been taking her to her weekly appointments so I don't have to leave work early, I can leave just on time to swing past and pick her up! I have no idea what I'll do now!! I know he doesn't go to uni everyday but he is looking at getting a job part time.

@Catcakes@Faith-and-Hope@YTT@Adge@Smc Hi everyone. What's happening?

@Catcakes how old is your son? Her psychiatrist refused to medicate for anxiety due to the effect of the antidepressant she was put on (whoooo made her moods cycle almost hourly) so it's been a hard road of therapy to get her to where she is (plus mood stablisers). She tried quitting everything all the time, I'm lucky deep down she is a good girl and will generally do as she is told even as she is shouting at me. I just pushed her every single day (her psyc told me to). I did allow her to quit dance though

@Bunniekins in my bedroom with aircon on bored lol. I checked and was 48 degrees outside at 2.30pm. Probably the one time I regret refusing any tv's/computers in bedrooms. Thank goodness for laptops lol