The Lessons My Children Taught Me About School [Eire Region]

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SO, HOW have little Jack and Ava settled in? Do those oversized, all-important uniforms still look spanking new? Or three days in, has the shiny new Class of 2009 already adopted the world-weary slouch of the primary school lifer? More importantly, how are you coping? Having managed, somehow, to get my own eldest child all the way through primary school - and with her two younger siblings back at the chalkface - I suppose I might now be considered a veteran of these traumatic times. And as Garret FitzGerald has demonstrated so well over recent days, where there's a veteran, there's wisdom (or at the very least, there's gravitas and wrinkles).

So in the interests of making the forthcoming weeks, months and even years a little easier for the parents of the Class of 2009, here's everything I've learned about primary school: 1. It doesn't matter how much you have just spent on that new school coat, it was a total waste of money. Within a month, your child will have lost it or inexplicably exchanged it for one three sizes too small. It really won't matter - children between the ages of four and 12 are apparently weather-proof and will never, ever wear their coats in the school yard.

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The Lessons My Children Taught Me About School [Eire Region]

2. Never allow anybody to tell your child that they are anything less than the most amazing person in their class. 3. Make friends with other mothers. You mightn't like the cut of their ...

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