Dulwich Divorcee » Scary School Secretary http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com Parenting Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:17:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Am I a helicopter parent? http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/am-i-a-helicopter-parent/ http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/am-i-a-helicopter-parent/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:38:23 +0000 Dulwich Divorcee http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/?p=1011 Day Two of school and I feel as though they’ve been back a hundred years.  I was merrily tweeting to a friend that I’d beaten my own personal best record of 48 hours before bending the school secretary’s ear - I was on the phone literally the minute we got out of the car after pick-up yesterday - then I realised that, in actual fact, I rang her last week, too, when everyone was still technically on holiday.

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Am I turning into a helicopter parent? I’m a bit scared that the honest  answer is yes. If I think there’s a problem, then yes, I am on the phone trying to massage things into the best possible shape for my little dears. It’s the kind of behaviour which, to be honest, would have me raising an eyebrow if it was anyone else doing it. As it’s me, I justify it as best I can. I’m a single parent, they only have me to battle for them. Mr X is an exemplary father but, through no fault of his own, he is not around on a day to day basis. And so I feel I have to weigh in a bit harder. Yes, they are of an age when they should be sorting things out themselves. But there are some issues which they cannot deal with.

The school is great, the school secretary is lovely and very patient, but I can see I am going to have to keep my helicopter propellers under control this year. To hover, or not to hover, that is the question – what do you do?

]]> http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/am-i-a-helicopter-parent/feed/ 1 Revenge of the Scary School Secretary http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/revenge-of-the-scary-school-secretary/ http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/revenge-of-the-scary-school-secretary/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:09:44 +0000 Dulwich Divorcee http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/?p=486 Go on, admit it. You’ve always suspected that the Scary School Secretary, who rules the head teacher, the pupils and the parents with a rod of iron, was about to snap. She sits there all day long, in her dust-coloured cardi, answering the phone in a pinched, hyper-polite voice as though she was a millimetre away from going banana-loopy-doodahs. Well, now she has finally lost it, and this is what it sounds like:

 

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Actually, it’s a recording from a school in Australia that a lovely friend sent me. It’s supposed to be genuine. I sort of hope it is!

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