Thanks everyone for your kind advice on NYC! She will be at a niche uni doing Fine Arts, albeit top-tiered as I am told.


As a parent, I am truly apprehensive. Just like everyone here with your kind words of concern. She is not only taking off from under my wings, but also going to a faraway place, and a complex one at that. But our children are not ours to keep, they need to venture and learn.

She is already plugged into the uni’s student support groups in social media, and is already chatting with some for dorm sharing and stuff. The world these days is THIS connected with our savvy next-generation. Maybe I dont need to be so worried afterall. I suppose our kids are really more resilient than we think they are.

So yes, things have been set in motion, networking is being done, and I am holding my breath as we take one step at a time to cross the bridge.

Lenny08\" post_id=\"2106925\" time=\"1682720452\" user_id=\"41864:

Maybe you can follow New York University in the fb page for the batch in fall

She's not going to New York U ... yes, thanks, I will look around FB.

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Hey ImMeeMee! Long time no hear from you

Great to hear that your daughter has made it to the university. Which university is she going to in New York? (I assume that's what NYC is)

Hey Chief, good to hear your greetings and Wow! you remember me! :imcool: Sorry for not having dropped in for quite a long time.

DD1 completed her SOTA IB last year. Got a few offers and decided that she wants to do a degree in Fine Arts in New York. I am totally clueless at the point, and so have to start looking around for info. Balek start again ... :nailbite:

My DD1 is going to NYC for her uni studies this coming fall. Honestly I don't even know where to start.


Is there a thread on NYC that I can be directed to? TIA.

Strange that RV thread is quite silent about the latest news vis a vis DHS, while the latter is abuzz? :?

Prawny


You may also want to gather feedback from your son’s teachers about his behaviour in school, given that children may behave differently at home and in school. While school’s words are not be all end all, it does provide another source of information for you to possibly place the puzzle pieces together.

I can totally understand the anxiety of is it or is it not and having to wait to get an answer. Grit through it.

Prawny


You may also want to gather feedback from your son’s teachers about his behaviour in school, given that children may behave differently at home and in school. While school’s words are not be all end all, it does provide another source of information for you to possibly place the puzzle pieces together.

I can totally understand the anxiety of is it or is it not and having to wait to get an answer. Grit through it.

There’s a small forest behind our house. In recent years there has been a lot of deforestation to make way for light factories. We have seen monkeys and squirrels being forced out of their habitats and running around in our housing area. The monkeys eat human garbage and the squirrels dash across roads.


I think one day the human race will have to pay the price.

Cloud Cloud:

Reorganisation seems to be the norm nowadys. Employees have to take on new roles and more roles. I wonder how many employees who are in their forties and beyond can adapt. But most of them simply has to accept the new role because it is not easy to find a new job.


I enjoy my homemaker role now but also concern if I will be bored when my younger child is in he

I think it depends on individual. My two SILs are SAHM but they seem very happy and busy attending to their homes and stuff. I am a pseudo SAHM and I already feel very bored even with my craft and some job assignments. Somehow I can't seem to find enough things to fill up all my time and I do have idling time while waiting for my kids. But I can't go back to FT work at this stage cos my child still needs my support at the odd hours.

The other downside of being at home for too long is one becomes a loner if one is not careful. Solitude is addictive and I feel it. My DH has to remind me to seek social interactions though these days I do find it quite meaningless having to do small talk. Most of the days I have to repeat several times for my child to follow my instructions, all I want is to keep quiet to converse some energy and the last thing on my mind is to make small talk.

SL


These days reorg is the new black. When I was still working regular last year these things kept coming and going. Very tiring.

I too dun think too far ahead now as compared to younger days when I was a lot more ambitious. I guess the rigours of life have jaded me quite a lot. Even for this new move it was a situation where I just took one step at a time and things just unfolded along the way and doors started to appear.

I’m not that far behind - 47 this year. For me at this relatively ‘young’ age, I do feel my body and mind slowing down. Supporting my DD3 is a life long journey and there are still times when I get so tired that I dun know how to move on. But life has to go on, we still have responsibilities to fulfil as children and parents, so we can’t fall and rest yet.

These days I tell myself. 不想它苦，它就不会苦。it’s all in the mind.