OT - First born just finished Yr 12 exams

jd, nothing you can do about it, unfortunately. Just hope and pray that your training, teaching, tutoring, has been observed and will be acted upon. Good luck. John

we have a member in club who is going to look after him...
that club member a copper is going to be stationed at Victor this week...hahaha

nah i dont think you have anything to worry about if what you say is correct

we have a member in club who is going to look after him...
that club member a copper is going to be stationed at Victor this week...hahaha

nah i dont think you have anything to worry about if what you say is correct

Congrats to him.
Does he "know" what he wants to do next yr??
I thought I did...enrolled in Sports Tourism / Management...ended up doing Music Diploma (AMEB) and then getting married and having kids....finally going o uni next yr - hopefully!!

You've done a good job so far - keep it up JD

Laura

Good to hear.

It only gets better. :o)

No. 2 son (21) just finished his honours in science with a thesis of 79 pages. Was only home 4 nights in 3 weeks, working at uni every night.
Just rang to say he finished his last exam and is off to mates for a 4 day LAN party playing computer games. 'See you thursday sometime".

No1. son (25) just moved out, so mum at home has no one to 'mother' any more. Talking of getting a cat. Think I might find more to do on the car and have less to worry about.

Both of them went to schoolies without any problem, and again the next year as toolies 'for even more fun' with legal alcohol.

Ahh schoolies week in Adelaide
i remember trying to make $50 last for 4 days while staying at the West beach caravan park.
With a bit of beg borrow and steal as well as no food i managed to have an alchol and smoke induced 4 day haze

My son is year 9 this year. Since the Outcomes based education has come in, he has done nothing at school since year five. He is smarter then the average bear, that just not me saying that.

Just this term he has assignment to design a solar passive house, it did that in year 4. So he is just going to hand the house he built in grade 4 in about two weeks time.

He is so bored, he sitting class reading women's day and still aceing all the exams. Hubby reckons that he should be out and doing something else other then reading the women's day.

I guess he is learning alot about women reading those magazines. And he finally finding out what is means to have needy girlfriend at age of 14.

Dont think that now school is finished the costs go away, the reverse is true.

Eldest son is now 28, a commercial pilot in Broome, now that costs a bit ($50K+ for training) add to that the contribution towards a marriage, and now two with regular airfares to & from Broome.

Middle daughter now 25 and still living at home and has a for taxis in the late evening or any other transportation need as desired, and youngest 19 (2nd year doing physio at uni) needs regular rescue (and extensive "relationship counselling") at from 2 to 5 am in the morning on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays.

Kids live fast nowadays, we had to be home at midnight after the drives, and there was NO schoolies for us, drinking age was 21.....

The caravan and Tojo have been bought, retirement date is just months away, and we are abandoning the nest to the kids! They can pay the electricity,water and transport bills themselves - AND look after the dogs we inherited from them.

Cant wait to be on the road permanently, returning to the nest occasionally to see if the offspring have survived.

Cheers

I remember my own HSC exams. I was an external student. Not only didn't I get to let of steam after the exams, I didn't have any school mates to hang with. Times were tough, we had to WORK for a living.
If I'd have suggested that my parents fork out for a holiday where I'd play up as much as I could, I would have had my asp kicked and been shown the door (no great problem as I hadn't lived at home since I was 15). But they would have laughed at me first and told me to wake up.
Times have changed. But it's still appears as if it's only the bottom 10% of kids that end up in the papers. The other 90% grow up to be just like us (I keep reminding mine of this...revenge is sweet:)

I think he's done alright to finish year 12. At 16 i was too busy playing cricket and doing burnouts than to study.

after a few years i got bored, went to uni, now have post grad degrees, a good job and still more to come.

Barnesy