Stubborn Little Git!!!

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#2 son went to his enrolement day yesterday at college...he couldn't take one of his choosen courses as not enough people had signed up so got offered some others and he choose physics...

Going on before he mentioned that he'd been given homework already (!!!), oh...and a letter about a trip which was...to visit CERN!!!

Now when he was in school, the trips (even the overseas ones) were pretty crap to be fair...there wasn't anything which tickled his fancy at all so he didn't go on any...

Now i know his inner geek would love the thought of going there, but starting new, he won't have his mates around him and this is putting him off, even though the trip isn't until the middle of next year and he'll have made more friends in this class by then...is it wrong i've told him that he IS going?

Don't want him to miss out on this but feel a bit tight for twisting his arm and putting my parental foot down!!!

:)
 
Personally mate, let him make his own choices, it's the only way he will learn. What you think he would like may not actually be what he actually likes. Let him make his choices, and then if he regrets not going, it's his own fault, not yours :)
 
I think to be fair in this case, the toughness is fair...

Even if it's not something he necessarily enjoys, it's almost like going to see the Pyramids, arguably something that he should do....

Anyway, if he doesn't like that, point out that he basically gets a holiday to Switzerland?

kd
 
enroled in Physics

Does not want to go to CERN

College level...

don't bother trying to make him go, he obviously has no interest and is jsut wasting his time on the cource...

no interest = no grades = waste of time
 
Tell him if he doesn't go, you'll just take him there personally, fire the particle beam at him and send him back in time to the day the trip is supposed to depart.

Either go once, or be stuck in a permanant paradox where he spends the rest of eternity going to CERN. :D
 
If he doesn't want to go then there isn't much you can do about it. To be honest you actually need to enjoy physics to get a good grade, it's one of the hardest A level subjects.
My entire class apart from me dropped out at AS, I think the overall drop out rate was about 50% after the first year.
 
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edscdk said:
enroled in Physics

Does not want to go to CERN

College level...

don't bother trying to make him go, he obviously has no interest and is jsut wasting his time on the cource...

no interest = no grades = waste of time
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He A* the GCSE exam component of all the different sciences he took, ended up with an A overall...
 
Woden said:
He will have friends by the middle of next year easy.
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This is what we are thinking...he has a few good mates, but not a huge social circle as it were, he's quiet around people he doesn't know but i'm sure he will make new friends when the term starts...

Plus, he's a little like me...holidays, days out, visiting family...moans like hell about the thought of it, enjoys it when it happens...

:D
 
I went to CERN because I did physics at A level. Was one of the best trips I've been on, was with some great people and having a tour around the place was really good. I got a D in physics in the end, but I enjoyed those lessons more than any other subject. So so interesting.
 
You should make him go, or at least pay for it and say that if 2 weeks beforehand he doesn't want to then he doesn't have to (he will want to buy then)...

i do physics at uni and we got to visit CERN. To be honest i found the actual site boring :p but i had a good laugh with some friends so was still a good trip.

Fair warning though: Switzerland is expensive :eek:
 
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