The Happiest Days of Your Life - Or Were They?

Hated it except for sports, Geography, English lit.
When I left I started my apprenticeship in the printing trade.
Sewing books by hand then from18-21 sewing books on machines.

I absolutely hated school, and wasn't head anything.

My happy days started when I left, when i went to work as a dental nurse.

Loved school except the time when I was accused of stealing a pencil😂
Maths and English were my best subjects. Hated sports.
Went on to gain a Master’s in English Language and Literature.
Lectured for a while, got married , had 3 lovely children, was a stay-at-home Mum, but helped in my husband’s practice.
Now, grandmother of 6, ranging from 6 to 24 years

P.S. Now divorced

Hated secondary. Primary was quite gentle & fun, but the school dinners were truly nasty.

Went to a girls grammar school. Yes I think overall I liked it - I had some very supportive teachers. English and History . Useless at all sports - on sports day my best friend and I used to escape over the bottom field wall. Never a prefect as ‘had a problem with authority’. Had a gap year after A levels doing voluntary work in an international children’s village and then went to University. I wouldn’t describe my school days as the happiest days of my life but they gave me the foundations to build a good life and career and a love of learning

Loved my schooldays and my life generally from 5 to 16.

But then I suffered ftom what would be called social anxiety now. Don't know why. But was very very unhappy from then until my early 20s . It blighted my life and I dont know what caused it. Till 16 I was quite a confident girl.

Shame. If only I could go back.

I loved School. I didn't "pass" the 11 plus so went to what they didnt have everywhere, in the "tripartite system" the Technical High School. It wasn't too happy at home so it was great for me. I'm glad I didn't go to the grammar, tho the lack of Latin nearly got in the way of being s scholarship girl at Cambridge History then English but they let me off and I do regret not having a grammar school just as in proper English language/literature. No streaming, but some setting.

We had lots of music - free cello and tuition - dance drama, brand-new gym and big playing fields, 2 years cookery and sewing, (not fair we didnt do woodwork) maybe best of all young open minded teachers

(it was a new build school and a head teacher who had been and inspector but come back to open a school under progressive lines.

So we had no prefects or whatever but a school council with pupils and teachers.
Lots of art and craft and clubs after school, Saturday outings if you were in the hockey or netball teams.

No long career to speak of, despite that being the parental expectation, as in the 70's joined the alternative scene, communities and communes: lots of voluntary community work as well as jobs like in a factory and a van delivery girl:
on and off professional jobs, including a paid psychotherapy qualification during a longer spell in SSD as I ran MH stuff:

I remained an alternative person at heart, I did part time Fine Art degrees in my 40's.early 50's, then at last settled into being a Yoga teacher for the rest of my work life.

Looking back me and my now Ex DS's Dad (still in good contact) both feel that the greatest achievement was to bring up DS as a well balanced man and now a professor, for both our backgrounds had serious difficulties leaving us struggling at times:

and he has few shadows MH wise and married a very strong and capable woman and 4 grandchildren. I count myself as very fortunate indeed there.

Each bit of my life has had very happy and very unhappy times. When I look at my school times look what it gifted me - an abiding love of music, sewing and crafts stuff, loving exercise, friendships.

I hated school, I went to so many, moving about with my father being in the forces, I was shy and found it difficult to make friends.

That must have been so difficult. I cant begin to imagine, as my school days were the rock of my life. I suppose it makes some very tough, but as a teenager, one's friendship groups count for so very much.

Absolutely gated it. I was bullied and was uncomfortable all the time.

My best days have been after I met dh, had children and became a stay at home mum to 5 children while helping DH 's practice when necessary and all the time since.