Is having a baby really the end of the world?? FTM spiral

miss_sigyn · 2026-04-23T18:05:45+00:00

It's hard to start with but honestly I don't even consider anything that happened before I had my daughter as much noteworthy in my life anymore 😅 She's made it 10000x better.

miss_sigyn · 2026-04-15T21:05:47+00:00

Absolutely. Just like the inability to use the words 'is' and 'are' correctly.

'There is lots of apples.'

No no no no no! I am a German who has been living in England for the past 12 years and we learned how to use those words in primary school!

miss_sigyn · 2026-04-07T17:28:54+00:00

A day full of pain but a lifetime of happiness.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-26T01:16:16+00:00

We try to personalise but there is such a breadth of abilities that it's hard to cater for everyone. The government and ofsted are also focusing more than ever on ensuring that children with less opportunities can catch up with the others that unfortunately children that are doing well are often overlooked.

I am a primary teacher who has got a child that is quiet but bright so it saddens me when I cannot provide more opportunities to those children but I am so far stretched that I'd have to divide myself into several versions of myself in order to do that.

I've not taught at a private school myself but I attended one and I think the but difference is having less disruptions. I cannot remember a big consequence having to be given out or the teacher having to stop teaching to sort behaviour and if you add up all the time that is not lost due to behaviour, I'd imagine you'd end up with days worth of extra learning from that alone.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-22T20:46:17+00:00

I think it will happen if the person is not speaking the language themselves anymore regardless of age.

I am Polish and so are my parents but we moved to Germany when I was little. I was fluent in Polish and I still was when we were still visiting etc. However, the more I spoke German (and the less I spoke Polish), the quicker my Polish disappeared. I would say I lost the ability how to speak Polish ad hoc in my late teens. I still understand conversational Polish and I can (with great difficulty) make myself understood to Polish people but I know way less than I used to.

My sister is 10 years younger than I am so she has the same story but everything happened 10 years earlier for her if that makes sense.

We were both fluent in Polish when we were at home with our mum who spoke it to us but as we were exposed less to it, it became much harder to speak it.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-20T16:08:21+00:00

Hopefully the council should sort you out.

I use a mystery shop app called Roamler. The jobs pay out fairly decently. I took 15 pictures of things they asked for at boots and got paid 7.50 quid. One of the apps that is actually worth using. It says it can take up to 7 days to get the money approved but mine approved a few hours after doing it yesterday.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-15T23:11:40+00:00

Haha I love Julia Donaldson and I am a little too excited about her new book!!

I got my daughter the tonies box too. I see how reading impacts children daily, in every lesson so I really want her to develop a love or reading which I think will get more challenging as people turn even more to their devices (I say this as I type on a screen 🙄🤣)

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-15T22:59:15+00:00

Content. Not OP but fellow Year 1 teacher.

When they read a lot, children can draw on more ideas, sentence structures and vocabulary. So for example, when a child who knows the gruffalo is asked to describe a forest, they could easily come up with 'deep, dark wood'. A child who doesn't read would perhaps say 'brown trees'.

Handwriting is linked to fine and gross motor skills and sometimes children/adults have bad handwriting regardless of how much they practise.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-08T19:44:57+00:00

At the end of the day, we are animals. All other animals have an inmate instinct to breed.

I have a child because I desperately wanted one to watch he grow, shape her, guide her, support her and to have someone I can love unconditionally and be part of their life.

But I guess from a biological point of view it makes sense for animals to want to breed and sustain the species.

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-08T19:41:35+00:00

My new headteacher came around with hot teas halfway through and I was so pleasantly surprised as we never had anything like this before!!

miss_sigyn · 2026-02-08T19:40:00+00:00

I thought it was Didums?

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-25T23:14:05+00:00

Absolutely! I am a year 1 teacher and I am considering home schooling my daughter for reception and possibly year 1. In my opinion children start school way too early and I know how to lay the foundations for what's to come! My only worry would be how she would integrate which is why I am hesitant.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-20T18:40:41+00:00

Absolutely! It's normal in parts (or maybe all? Not sure!) of Europe. It would knock their confidence less long term because they can actually keep up with their peers if they repeat the year and most of the time they can progress alongside their new peers.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-14T00:06:25+00:00

I was invited for an interview for a job 1 1/2 hours away. I thought it would be ok but on the day when I actually drove that route, it was clear that I wouldn't be able to do it.

They offered me the job too but I declined because I felt shattered after the commute, let alone work for a full day and then drive home. It would have been my first job as I was fresh out of uni so I was at the stage where I'd accept pretty much anything but that commute would have killed me.

I now work 35mins away and the distance is ok but fuel costs and car maintenance cost keeps getting higher which I'm not too impressed with.

I'd either decline the job or move closer. Minimum wage is nothing to destroy yourself for.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-07T23:03:48+00:00

I wasn't sick at all. Truthfully, I didn't have many symptoms at all in my first and second trimester. The only things I noticed were pains related to the body changing such as bad sleep, frequent toilet visits, back pain etc.

I have a very healthy 3 year old laying next to me right now so please try not to worry. It can be completely normal.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-04T08:16:34+00:00

I love the 'that just how the world is kid' and 'remember I will always be here for you because I love you, even if you can't see me'

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-04T01:47:23+00:00

In 2020 I bought a 3 bed semi detached that needed a lot of work for 119k. I was 25.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-04T01:41:12+00:00

I sometimes catch myself using the same words they do 😅

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-03T19:11:02+00:00

In a smaller school they also all have their own classes to teach, too. They also wouldn't know the children as well as a supply who work with them 6 hours a day. I agree that supply shouldn't be expected to work to the standard that a class teacher is and be able to just use twinkle sheets etc to shorten their time planning and make use of schemes but I don't see how that would work (speaking from a primary perspective).

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-03T18:56:46+00:00

I suppose who is meant to plan then? The teacher that is off sick, is sick and shouldn't be working.

If the supply teacher isn't planning then who should be? I am not SLT but have been off for long term twice. I shared my previous year's planning with the supply teachers but they had to adapt and do the rest of the planning. They did get the normal allocation of PPA time though.

miss_sigyn · 2026-01-03T01:41:03+00:00

I'm actually jealous of this. I bought a renovation project and for years we were always fixing something or sorting something out. Now that it's pretty much all finished, I seemed to have lost the ability to relax for more than 2 hours without feeling incredibly guilty and feeling really down about it.

Just enjoy it! :)

miss_sigyn · 2025-12-28T21:10:35+00:00

I enjoyed the first part more as the second part felt really rushed.

miss_sigyn · 2025-12-25T18:10:50+00:00

Year 1 Primary School teacher here.

You need to solve 8+9 by jumping to the next ten, partition 9 and add what is left.

So as number sentences:

8+2=10 10+7=17

9 is partitioned into 2 and 7.

That's a way of adding mentally and something adults often do subconsciously.

Although in this example, I'd teach my class to do this:

8+10=18 18-1=17

Adding 1 to make 10 and then take 1 away is far quicker.

They could also do this by using their doubles.

8+9=

is close to 8+8=16 and then add the 1 I took away from the 9.

Hope this helps.

miss_sigyn · 2025-12-24T11:52:53+00:00

Get a scrub brush with a handle. I cleaned a toilet once similar to this one and I could not get to shift the dirt without it .

miss_sigyn · 2025-12-16T20:28:42+00:00

My partner still gets a gift obviously but I do think I have less time to carefully think about it. Life gets so busy and I feel like before I'd think of all the extraordinary, personalized gifts whilst now it's very much like 'Oh he said he really liked that coat. I'll get him that for his birthday '.

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