School’s out for Summer but fortunately for me, as a Mum, not for ever as Alice Cooper would encourage.
Just shows how our perspective on things changes as we grow and mature. When we are at school most of us can’t wait to leave and once we have left most of us wish we could go back!
Of course some of us have terrible school experiences: bullying, isolation, bad teaching, etc… and only fully have the opportunity to blossom once we are out in the big world.
There is no mistakening it though, either way, that school is a major influence on our lives and attitudes for good or bad.
What are your school memories?
Were you a rebel? Did you hike up you skirts and smoke behind the bike shed or, were you like me, a real goody goody?
Oh I had my moments but I took life and school so seriously.
Not homework though, for some reason I never really felt the need to do that ….
But I was always on time, never bunked off and never broke any rules.
I look at my own kids now and see echos of my school life but things have changed a lot. The opportunities they have now. the range of subjects on offer at GCSE level and even the range of qualifications. I come from an age where girls were fighting to do woodwork and boys were unlikely cookery students but barriers were lifting; the world was changing.
Just as schools offer more options to children so life now offers more options to their parents. Unlike my mother’s generation we can have careers and we can choose to stay at home ( finances permitting) and we can equally choose to set up our own businesses.
The only real barriers today for us and for our kids are in our minds.
So what perceptions are you holding? Is that really the truth?
Just like when you thought school was the “worst thing ever” – you now know that wasn’t the truth – just your preception.
Change your perceptions and you change everything.
Have a great summer hols everyone xxx
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