Supporting granddaughter

I do wonder where all this stress comes from for young people now, we had to get on with exams and the like and no mobile phones to text or ring home and most of us hadn't done much elseeither to prepare us.

I feel for you with family problems to cope with too but really you sound on top of it all although it is a struggle.

I don't think results are the be all and end all I have lnown many young people get places with poorer results than they had hoped for. One of my GD who didn't thinkk she would get it graduates this summer.

Don't let stress take over from excitement some younger people seem to have lost the joy in life tow hich they are entitled.

Annie and (((hugs))) for you and (secretly) for DGD3 too I am overwhelmed by your strength and ability to keep giving loving support after so many sad events in your life. I hope you get support too for yourself xx

Will be thinking of her and am sure all will be OK, but it doesn't help her having to get on and get through it. Thank goodness for you, her dad and sisters. I hope your DD finds healing some day.

Disgruntled, please, please, please, my reiki practitioner has moved away

Yes I am Oak, and admit there has been Sweet Chestnut times for me too

Oh wGreat, youngest grandchild has now changed her mind and wants an 18th birthday party the week after exams finish , and she would like the same hotel as I arranged for her brother and sister's 18th .But her mother is not to be invited WW3 on the way

Auntieflo Individual teachers see their pupils as individuals, not as statistics fodder

Anniebach, no wonder your grandchildren love you so much. I hope your youngest DGD is feeling a bit more optimistic and I do so hope your DD gets enough help to bring her back to the fold. Such a sad situation but you are a very special grandmother. It sounds as if the teachers think highly of DDG (and you) and will do their best for her.

Annie I've sent some. Let me know if there are any changes and if/when you want more.
I'm sorry you've had to use Sweet Chestnut. Did Dr B come from near you? He must have been amazing.

Annie you are one in a million. Your DGC are fortunate to have you in their lives. I hope and pray all goes well on Monday with the school and,of course, in the exams. We're all rooting for you and your family. I was all ready to back Disgruntled up about the remedies but you're on to all that too! x

I can see you moving to Cardiff to be close to all of them :-)

can your granddaughter come and stay with you while her exams are on....just to give her the calm and support she needs to get through the exams?

Your posts have brought tears to my eyes, Annie. My heart breaks for you and your family. I will say a prayer for ygd and for dd, as well.

While I'm sad that your gc have had to face all this, I think it's wonderful that they have all pulled together, and that their dad has, too. Some families fall apart when this kind of thing happens. I'm glad they didn't.

And I agree that they are lucky to have you in their lives! How moving that they see you as their own personal "nurture room!" I can see why. God bless you!

Here's hoping ygd does well on her a-levels and that the school puts in a good word for her either way.

My daughters and grandchildren loved Pooh Bear, I still do. I am making granddaughter a cushion, cross stitching the following -

you are
BRAVER
Than you believe
STRONGER than
You seem
SMARTER
Than you think

& LOVED
more than you know.


'

Dr Bach was born in Wales

I may move , I was born and brought up in Aberfan so am at home in the valleys, and there are many areas very near to Cardiff to choose from.

Isn't it strange what we think we know? I always thought he was an Austrian!
So sorry about your worries but one ray of hope is that your GD will pass everything she needs to. It is a fact that boys tend to think they did better in exams than they actually did whilst girls are much more pessimistic. Convince yourself That she is very very pessimistic!
My sister rang me once to ask me to meet my niece after a uni. exam because she had made such a mess of it and would probably have to leave her course. She was heartbroken. She got a first two years later.

Annie the embroidered cushion sounds a lovely idea and one I may copy for DGS. He loves watching the Peter Rabbit stories on tv and if he (DGS) is going somewhere new or doing something he doesn't want to but has to (such as get on a plane recently) he can be heard muttering the words of timid Benjamin Bunny 'Rabbits are brave, rabbits are brave'