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Stressful times.

Today, one of the topics in the Mothership was how stressed our children were getting over starting University and College. I have many friends whose children are leaving home to live alone for the first time. Their mums must be terrified, let alone how the kids feel ! They are STILL our babies after all.

No 1 was looking through the course selections for Strathclyde and Glasgow University. (Their open days are Tue/Wed this week).

She was getting a bit stressed about it.

Common sense tells us that they will LOVE it. As soon as they have settled in, made some friends, drank their first Cider and Blackcurrant, made their first potato curry, had their first (?) hangover, been to their first all night party and skipped their first boring tutorial - they may never come back to us.

Thankfully No 1 has a whole 12 months before she has to make leap into the unknown. With enough counselling I may even be ready for it by that time.