Comments on: Twenty-nine. http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Tue, 22 Aug 2034 22:56:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Doug Belshaw http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3610 Doug Belshaw Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:48 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-3610 Thanks Simon - it's always a balancing act, although I would hope that I always put my family first! :-D Thanks Simon – it's always a balancing act, although I would hope that I always put my family first! :-D

]]> By: macca_mjm http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3609 macca_mjm Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:22:10 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-3609 Ha ha, my mum and dad bought me a guitar for my 21st birthday and suprise suprise i too have yet to master it, get a student to teach you it during dinner time. Ha ha, my mum and dad bought me a guitar for my 21st birthday and suprise suprise i too have yet to master it, get a student to teach you it during dinner time.

]]> By: Foxburg http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3608 Foxburg Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:49:15 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-3608 My warmest wishes for a Happy Birthday, just three more years until the mid-life crisis! My warmest wishes for a Happy Birthday, just three more years until the mid-life crisis!

]]> By: paulmartin42 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3607 paulmartin42 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:54:32 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-3607 30 is the new 20 30 is the new 20

]]> By: simfin http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3606 simfin Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:16:27 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-3606 Impressive achievements Doug - schools would be more exciting and dynamic places with a few more like you around. ..Going to sound like an old bloke here (indeed I am an old bloke, by any definition) and it is the prerogative of the old to 'tell' the young how to live their lives. Fret not about money - many of us were pretty mainscale teachers and enabled w' wives to be there for our young kids. Chez simfin it was only when the kids were well established in KS3 that we both worked full time and I think we had enough money to allow them to seize every opportunity. And secondly, much more importantly as I look at my almost 18yr old and 15yr old I wonder where the time has gone, would give anything to rewind the time to spend almost every minute with them when they were growing up. You don't get this time again Doug and in a blink of an eye that young son of yours will have his own life and you, like many of us will wonder if all that work stuff was worth it. Turn off your technology and commit the same energy to the youn 'un as you have to work!<br><br>(climbing off soap box, feeling a bit sheepish)<br><br>Have a fantastic Christmas with the little fella and let your new year's resolutions include treasuring every moment of his adventures<br><br>:-) Impressive achievements Doug – schools would be more exciting and dynamic places with a few more like you around. ..Going to sound like an old bloke here (indeed I am an old bloke, by any definition) and it is the prerogative of the old to 'tell' the young how to live their lives. Fret not about money – many of us were pretty mainscale teachers and enabled w' wives to be there for our young kids. Chez simfin it was only when the kids were well established in KS3 that we both worked full time and I think we had enough money to allow them to seize every opportunity. And secondly, much more importantly as I look at my almost 18yr old and 15yr old I wonder where the time has gone, would give anything to rewind the time to spend almost every minute with them when they were growing up. You don't get this time again Doug and in a blink of an eye that young son of yours will have his own life and you, like many of us will wonder if all that work stuff was worth it. Turn off your technology and commit the same energy to the youn 'un as you have to work!

(climbing off soap box, feeling a bit sheepish)

Have a fantastic Christmas with the little fella and let your new year's resolutions include treasuring every moment of his adventures

:-)

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