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Trish, I am deep in parents' evening for my son, A-levels, GCFEs, Mox, all of that, and

a terrible, a terrible thing happened. Obviously, you know, you get this set of

instructions from your children. You know, don't speak, don't breathe, don't wear

anything, don't make eye contact, don't mention personal names. I did once call my son

by his pet name in front of his English teacher, which was terrible. But again, it happened

again this week with his English teacher when we were talking about writing, and my son's

quite quiet, he was practically mute in this, and the English teacher said, well, you

know, obviously you can ask at home about writing because your mum does a lot of writing,

isn't she? She's a journalist, she's got things, and my son, he went red from the neck

up to the top of his head and said absolutely nothing. And afterwards, he said to me, you

can't come any more to parents' evening, that's it, it's over. But that slightly defeats

the purpose, isn't it? Well, I said, yeah, what will happen? It'll just be you and your

dad not saying very much, and I won't get any information. And I said, well, it does

get worse because obviously next week I'm going to your school to talk about careers

and getting into careers, and he said, well, don't talk about writing, I said no, I'm

talking to the boys about fashion and beauty. I think he's going to go into the witness

protection scheme. Oh, I think something like that. I mean, wait till he finds out, you

do a podcast, never mind the writing.

Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy, and I'm Trish Halpin. If you're

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