Glory of Grandparents
I’ve just found out today that my son along with five other students from the forty in his year group, has been chosen to study Latin next year and take his English language exam a year early. The Director said that he was looking at the students that a few years from now, should be applying for Oxford and Cambridge University.
My son recently took a maths challenge and out of the 200,000 children that took part, we was in the top 40% and of that the top 21%, and was given an award. He received that award today.
Lastly he won an IT star today, the only one in his year group.
If I tell anyone else this and yes this blog including I know it sounds like a braggy mum. I’ve come home bursting to tell someone as I’m so proud of him. He’s a quiet lad, he’s not competitive, he just gets on with things quietly and often without any recognition so hey, I want to shout out how proud I am today from the highest roof tops.
But I can’t because it sounds like an overbearing boastful mum. However there is someone I can tell who won’t think any less of me and will just enjoy the story of his success at its face value and not read anything else into it…..my mum and dad. Only grandparents can take the highs and lows of their granchildren and enjoy those highs just as much as the parents of those grandchildren. Only grandparents can hear the stories of how clever their grandchildren are without envy, without prejudice and with pure joy. And that is the glory of grandparents….
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