His
Armani Code
Hers
Mochino couture
Cerutti 1881
Christian Lacroix - Rouge
Awww - RIP Ollie P
A gentler kind of kiddie's programme - mint TV!
I home educated daughter #3 from year 8 until she was old enough to go to college. She just wasn't getting anything out of mass education.
For example, she loves history and wanted to learn all about ancient history in particular (the egyptians, romans etc) but on the curriculum at the time was WW2 ... like it or lump it.
Not all kids are suited to home ed, neither are all parents. Also there is the issue of the loss of one parents income. It's not something to be embarked upon lightly.
I had no degree at the time just a good knowledge of my daughter - I felt I wasn't there to 'teach' her anything but to guide her through a process of absorbing information.
As Yeats quoted, 'Education is lighting a fire not filling a bucket'
Have you checked out the website for 'Education Otherwise'? It's full of invaluable info about home ed - the legalities and practicalities.
Good luck!
Welcome back Miss Kitty!! The forums haven't been the same without you hun x x x
Loads of times ... tailgaters are the scourge of the motorways IMO. They're at best rude and arrogant assuming that EVERYONE should 'get out of their way or else' and at worst potential murderers by forcing people into impulsive, possibly dangerous manouvres with their aggressive 'push push push' attitudes.
Funnily enough, I didn't get as many when I drove my 2.5 ton Mitsubishi Delica. Or maybe I was just so high up I couldn't see the wankers!
All great responses and some good advice - thanks guys. I'm really frustrated about ceops but it probably IS because the conversation I recorded was the one between *him* and myself posing as my daughter and the complaint wasn't from her directly.
She didn't make the complaint herself because - surprise surprise - she wasn't aware she was possibly being groomed ... showing that his ploy (if that's what it was) was working perfectly. However, we do have to be careful we don't impinge on the human rights of characters like this don't we.
He had already managed to get her mobile number out of her but the only texts that had passed between them (according to my daughter) was about a computer game she particularly likes - hey guess what, HIS favourite too!! What a coincidence!
Why would a 12 year old think to report a guy who has only talked about computer games? He didn't come across as a 'nasty man' at all!!
The older and wiser amongst us know that it just isn't normal for a man of 41 to have a 12 year old little girl as a 'friend' - and most adults would be bored rigid talking to a kid about a computer game.
I dread to think what his next move might have been.
Her phone has been taken of her until we replace the SIM and we carefully and calmly explained the situation and how much danger she could be in by adding people she doesn't know to her msn. We said that people can - and do - lie about who they are online. She has had a nasty scare and has promised not to add anyone she doesn't know to her new msn when we set it up (and it'll be checked every night).
I just hope this character doesn't take things to the next stage with another little girl who's parents don't think to check her account.
Thanks guys - this has been very helpful. I can't tell you how sick I felt when this 41 year old sicko was chatting to me on messenger thinking I was my 12 year old. Of course, I chatted in text talk and tried to stay calm. I reminded him I was only 12 and said my mum and dad would be angry if they knew we were chatting. He said 'they probably would be lol'. Bastard!
When I asked if he though I was too young for him to chat to, he said 'no - I think you're cool'
The really scary thing is that he reminded 'me' that I'd texted him a while back about the computer game 'Resident evil 4' - so he has access to her phone number. Her phone has been confiscated of course.
Technology can be a wonderful thing until scum use it to their own ends.
I have reason to believe my youngest daughter (aged 12) has been targeted and was in the process of being groomed by a via msn.
Could any professionals in this field (police, social services etc) pm me with advice. The guy concerned doesn't know I'm 'on to him'.
My daughter no longer has access to the account.
Thanks in advance
Sugar x
I think the high teenage pregnancy rate is as much to do with the binge drinking culture as it is to any claim of a lack of knowledge or limited access to protection. You can 'educate' them til your blue in the face but kids who are rat arsed on cheap lager at parties and in the corners of public parks are far more likely to risk a quickie without protection as their judgement is impaired.
I'm sorry but you can't defend the indefensible. The woman has shown a shocking lack of parental control that borders on abuse. Because of her shocking track record as a 'mother', her daughter is now on a very slippery slope.
And before the 'walk a mile in her shoes' quote comes at me, I've been a single teenage mother and was single once again with 3 daughters when my first marriage went t*ts up. My eldest daughter was a challenge and would have tried the patience of a saint. But I didn't let up even though trying to control her was like holding a tiger by the tail.
Yes, it would have been easier (for me) NOT to ground her but I'd have lost control and therefore any authority. And then what. oh ... I know ... she'd have been 'hanging out' drinking lager, smoking pot and being expelled from school instead of getting the 10 GCSEs she ended up with.
OMG this sad excuse for a mother is from my town!! :shock:
You know, the bargain that has you grinning when you remember it.
For us, it was our dishwasher. A Zanussi which I saw advertised on Ebay when we moved back down south in 2005. It was only 18 months old but was faulty ... wouldn't heat the water. It was local so I took a punt and got it for 99p. Pom soldered 'something' (please dont ask me to get technical) and hey presto! It's never given us a days trouble and I'd say that was a doozie of a bargain!!
So what was your best bargain?
) But then I'm female so the issues I think you're concerned about aren't issues for me. It's really not as debilitating as you imagine it might be - I'm hardly aware of it on a day to day basis.
