Doing things completely wrong - Alima’s story

As parents, we struggle to admit when we are doing things completely wrong. We want the best of the best for our precious children. We want to provide them with everything and more. Sometimes we get things right but many times we get things wrong. 

Is this bad? 

Is this a problem?

No, of course not. We are all humans and guess what? We will get things wrong sometimes! And that’s okay. People will pretend that they never get things wrong and that their lives are picture perfect - it’s all an illusion. All of our lives will always be 50//50 - remember that before you compare yourself to little miss perfect down the road!

Getting things wrong is merely data. That’s all. It’s information. We learn and we move on. We try something else. Does it mean that the ‘something else’ that we try will be the right thing? Absolutely not, but we try anyway. 

Alima contacted me in February. She was in tears on the phone. She told me that she had been following me for several years and loved my work. She had learnt so much by just following me on my social media and reading all of my blogs every single day. But when it came to her son’s  4+ assessments, she didn’t listen to me. She didn’t believe me when I said that it would be challenging. She was doubtful of many of the things that I was speaking about. 

That is until her son was unsuccessful to all of her target schools at 4+ (including the likes of Habs’ Boys and UCS). It took me a while to help Alima to calm down. She was hysterical by this point. I told her to take a breath and to stop beating herself up. How was she to know? Why should she trust me - a stranger that she had never met? She had never been through the process until now. 

Once she calmed down, we spoke. Alima is now my client and has been for 12 months. We are preparing her son for his 7+ at the same schools that he was unsuccessful in at 4+. He is thriving. Alima sent her son to a state school and although it’s not what she thought it would be and she struggles with a lot of the dynamics there, she knows that it is just temporary. She knows her son will be wildly successful in his 7+. 

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