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Gunna be signing up our first born to this, that's 4 weeks of him away from the house this summer, and 4 weeks of us having lots of fun with others 
Anyone else put their kids through the National Citizen Service, it will serve them well for the future. |
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No I had kids to spend as much time with them as I could, I certainly wouldn't choose to meet someone over a day out with the kids!, so it would really depend on whether the kids wanted to go on it
I've no idea what the national service malarkey is, so can't really comment on that |
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"No I had kids to spend as much time with them as I could, I certainly wouldn't choose to meet someone over a day out with the kids!, so it would really depend on whether the kids wanted to go on it
I've no idea what the national service malarkey is, so can't really comment on that"
He turns 16 tomorrow, he's doing D of E, also in the army cadets, and when not at school, he's at his girlfriends, yes I do wish we could spend our summers with the kids but reality is, we are working parents, unable to take a 6 week break while the kids are on their summer holidays, so instead of being bored for 6 weeks, for of them will be spent in the Peak District learning life skills as well as doing a lot of outdoor activities, I miss the 50s too |
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"No I had kids to spend as much time with them as I could, I certainly wouldn't choose to meet someone over a day out with the kids!, so it would really depend on whether the kids wanted to go on it
I've no idea what the national service malarkey is, so can't really comment on that
He turns 16 tomorrow, he's doing D of E, also in the army cadets, and when not at school, he's at his girlfriends, yes I do wish we could spend our summers with the kids but reality is, we are working parents, unable to take a 6 week break while the kids are on their summer holidays, so instead of being bored for 6 weeks, for of them will be spent in the Peak District learning life skills as well as doing a lot of outdoor activities, I miss the 50s too "
When I was 12 I went on a 2 week outdoor activity camp with the school. It was in Northumberland and we saw the Kielder dam being built. I loved every minute and still keep in touch with school friends who went too. |
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"No I had kids to spend as much time with them as I could, I certainly wouldn't choose to meet someone over a day out with the kids!, so it would really depend on whether the kids wanted to go on it
I've no idea what the national service malarkey is, so can't really comment on that
He turns 16 tomorrow, he's doing D of E, also in the army cadets, and when not at school, he's at his girlfriends, yes I do wish we could spend our summers with the kids but reality is, we are working parents, unable to take a 6 week break while the kids are on their summer holidays, so instead of being bored for 6 weeks, for of them will be spent in the Peak District learning life skills as well as doing a lot of outdoor activities, I miss the 50s too "
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70s for me.
I'm just a product of my generation, I leant life skills chopping trees down with a machete I bought from the diy store with my first weeks paper round money!,I only returned home when I was hungry and often spent all day on the countryside near where I lived, football bicycle or motorbikes kept us busy, occasionally setting fire to things or playing spilt the kipper!.
By 14 I could manufacture my own bike and strip a two stroke engine into bits and drive tractors(don't ask how I learnt  ).
Ahh them were the days I tell yer  |
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"Gunna be signing up our first born to this, that's 4 weeks of him away from the house this summer, and 4 weeks of us having lots of fun with others
Anyone else put their kids through the National Citizen Service, it will serve them well for the future."
You made it sound like you were signing him up for four weeks away so you could play without him around.
That's how I read it. |
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"Gunna be signing up our first born to this, that's 4 weeks of him away from the house this summer, and 4 weeks of us having lots of fun with others
Anyone else put their kids through the National Citizen Service, it will serve them well for the future.
You made it sound like you were signing him up for four weeks away so you could play without him around.
That's how I read it."
Yes I can see how you'd see it that way, he is being signed up as he does want to do it, I was told 4 weeks over the phone when they rang yesterday but will get that clarified, being patents we've not really been able to have much of a social life while the kids have been growing up but we're now at the stage where we can start enjoying ourselves a lot more. |
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"No I had kids to spend as much time with them as I could, I certainly wouldn't choose to meet someone over a day out with the kids!, so it would really depend on whether the kids wanted to go on it
I've no idea what the national service malarkey is, so can't really comment on that
He turns 16 tomorrow, he's doing D of E, also in the army cadets, and when not at school, he's at his girlfriends, yes I do wish we could spend our summers with the kids but reality is, we are working parents, unable to take a 6 week break while the kids are on their summer holidays, so instead of being bored for 6 weeks, for of them will be spent in the Peak District learning life skills as well as doing a lot of outdoor activities, I miss the 50s too .
70s for me.
I'm just a product of my generation, I leant life skills chopping trees down with a machete I bought from the diy store with my first weeks paper round money!,I only returned home when I was hungry and often spent all day on the countryside near where I lived, football bicycle or motorbikes kept us busy, occasionally setting fire to things or playing spilt the kipper!.
By 14 I could manufacture my own bike and strip a two stroke engine into bits and drive tractors(don't ask how I learnt ).
Ahh them were the days I tell yer "
Apart from the tractor and machete, did all that myself, different times as they say. |
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Y eldest did this.. They are not away from home for 4 weeks.
It is a 4 week course
She loved it and my son is doing his this year
It only reads how people want to perceive.. Don't explain yourself to any one
Hope he enjoys it... And it is excellent for them |
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"Y eldest did this.. They are not away from home for 4 weeks.
It is a 4 week course
She loved it and my son is doing his this year
It only reads how people want to perceive.. Don't explain yourself to any one
Hope he enjoys it... And it is excellent for them "
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"Y eldest did this.. They are not away from home for 4 weeks.
It is a 4 week course
She loved it and my son is doing his this year
It only reads how people want to perceive.. Don't explain yourself to any one
Hope he enjoys it... And it is excellent for them "
Obviously I miss heard what was said on the phone, the women was quite over excited when explaining it to me. |
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If you look at it from the young mans point of view (and in my opinion a 16 year old is a young man, not a boy) I expect he wouldn't want to spend his summer holiday with his parents anyway. |
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