My 21 year old daughter is now carving out her life in another city to where I live, it’s not quite what I thought would happen when I remember her being a little girl and starting school, but you at some point start living your own life and making your own decisions about exactly how…
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A Final Post About My Daughter E And University: She Is A Qualified Nurse
Read moreIt’s been nearly three years since I took my daughter, E, to Southampton to start her university course to study nursing. It actually only seems like yesterday, and I clearly remember how emotional I was at leaving E at her university halls, and the drive back home was lonely. It gave me plenty of time…
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Does A University Education Prepare You For The Real World?
Read moreI will start this post by saying I never went to university or for that matter ever had the opportunity to do so. At age sixteen I finished my GCSE’s and was promptly told by my mother that I needed to find a job as she was not going to fund my life. So on…
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University: My 20 Year Old Daughter
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know I have written on a number of occasions about my 20 year old daughter, E, and her adventure through university and studying for her degree in nursing. Well my daughter is now well and truly in her third and final year of university, the home run you might…
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Is A University Degree Really Worth All that Debt
Read moreTwo of my children are currently studying at university and I have often wondered if the final degree they receive is worth the debt that is going to hang around their necks for possibly years? This debt could easily amount to 40k-50k. That in anybody’s language is massive. Especially as when they enter the workforce,…
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My Daughter E Made My Heart Burst With Pride
Read moreMy 20 year old daughter, as regular readers may know, is in university studying to be a nurse, specialising in child nursing. She is currently in her third and final year. So all the hard work of A’ levels and then the first two years of university are culminating in this final six months or…
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My Son Has Been In University Just Three Week’s
Read moreThis weekend my son, A, is coming home for the weekend from university after 3 weeks. What has surprised me is never for one minute, did I realise how much I would miss him. Of course it was always going to be strange with him not being around, but it has genuinely shocked me. In…
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So The Adventure Begins (My Son And Uni)
Read moreToday I will be taking my son to start university. It’s a bittersweet moment, but I have nothing but excitement for him. This is the second time I have seen one of my children go off to university. The truth is I have decided it doesn’t get any easier. It also doesn’t matter if they…
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My Daughter’s Trip To Uganda Is Not Going To Plan
Read moreLast Sunday I set off to Heathrow at 8.30am so my 20 year old daughter could catch her plane to Uganda for her placement in relation to her university course that she is currently in her second year studying child nursing. Our journey to Heathrow was trouble free and her friend who she was going…
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My Daughter E Is Going To Uganda As Part Of Her University Course
Read moreMy nearly 20 year old daughter is coming to the end of her second year in university of a three year course in child nursing, and she is doing incredibly well even if I say so myself. Her grades have gone up significantly since the end of her first year which makes me very proud…
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My Son Is Going To University: The End Of An Era
Read moreMy son is going to university in September and just the other day I had a bittersweet thought. When my son was four years old his mother and I separated and divorced fairly soon after that. From that marriage I had three children and thankfully I had a pretty good arrangement with their mother over joint custody…
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What Is The Future For An 18 Year Old?
Read moreIn a few days time my son will be 18 years of age and for all intent and purposes the world should be there for him to conquer in any way he wishes, but it’s 2017 and the world today is not easy for a young person embarking upon their journey into adulthood and beyond. …
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My Two Eldest Daughters Have Grown Up
Read moreThere was definitely a point in my mid to late teens that it was not cool to be seen in public with my parents. In my case it was just my mum. The days of going to Tesco to do the weekly shop was a big NO NO! Just in case I bumped into any…
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I Will Have Two Children in University in 2017! Mad!
Read moreWhen I was in school such a long time ago not many of us went to university. Looking back now it was maybe tougher to get a university place, but also for many of us the mentality of society was you leave school and get a job and earn a living which I imagine was…
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My Daughters and neo-natal
Read moreIf you are a regular reader of my blog you might have read that that my 19 year old daughter is currently in her second year of university studying child nursing. Part of the course involves going out on placement to different hospitals and gaining experience in all the facets of child nursing. The placement…
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Childhood Bedrooms
Read moreRecently I have been employed to re-decorate two bedrooms in a semi-detached house in the suburbs of the city that I live in. The job itself is relatively straight forward, but it was the background story that got me thinking and interested me. I will explain why. Growing up I never had a bedroom long…
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Making sure my daughter has some home comforts at university
Read moreMy 19 year old daughter has just started her second year at university and the time has come to move out of her university halls into a shared accommodation house in student land. When she was in the halls of residence I took comfort in the fact that she was safe and living in a…
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My Daughter E Returns to University for her 2nd Year
Read moreLast Saturday I was up at 6am to take my daughter back to university to study for her second year. It was a very interesting start because I wasn’t entirely sure where she was staying, but she did text me an address of a friend where she said would most likely be staying overnight after…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreOn Friday,I went down to Southampton university to pick up my 19 year old daughter,for the rest of the summer holidays. One of her sisters and brother came along to give her a surprise. Yes I know it looks like I’m driving without my hands on the wheel. Just to reassure everybody we are stopped…
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Letting go. My Daughter has gone to university
Read moreLast weekend I made the final road trip to take my daughter, E, to Southampton university. The journey of her university placement started a year ago with a visit to our first open day. It has been a long journey that has been full of pitfalls and fair amount of stress. We left around 8am…
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My daughter is going to university in a few days
Read moreThe time is nearly here after numerous university road trips, many days of worrying about exam results to finally get a unconditional offer to study at university. In just a few days time my 18 year old daughter leaves for university approximately 140 miles from home. My feelings are mixed. Yes I am so very…
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