I did ocr child development.
in my 3 sections of the course i got a merit level 1, merit level 2, distinction level 2 however my overall grade only came out to a level 2 pass.
I just don’t understand how, is this possible or have they just given me a lower grade?
(2025 results)
Hey! The title basically summarises my reasoning for posting but i thought i’d provide a little background.
The week before and the first few days of my period give me the most insane back pain ever. I’m talking unable to sit comfortably, if i sit for more than 30 mins and try to walk i’m unable to move and catch my footing. It’s a nightmare.
I’ve been to drs and been prescribed numerous different painkillers however i don’t feel like any of them really help, even if it numbs the pain a little i’m still extremely wobbly when i try to walk after a while- which is something that really doesn’t work with my lifestyle. I cannot be doing with needed 10 minute preparation before i walk to the next classroom over.
Do you guys have any advice on how i can try combat this? Ideally for summer i’m looking for something that doesn’t require heat pads (those are a godsend in winter tho)
Thanks!
I’m just going through a weird stage at the moment, nothing feels right and i feel like im clawing for comfort. The only sort of comfort i am getting is through the same regular meals. For the last month i’ve literally survived on plain pasta for lunch and a single jacket potato for my dinner. Plus some chocolate biscuits as snacks
I know this isn’t a healthy diet but i just can’t tolerate foods, i like my set few meals and thats that, but my family are constantly getting mad at me for being boring. I don’t know what to do because the thought of not having my usual stresses me out beyond words, but so is being yelled at constantly.
Does anyone have any advice to help me navigate this, i really don’t know what to do🥲
I’m not from America. I always wanted to live there growing up, and a part of me still years for it, but i swear every day it becomes more and more dystopian and i truly don’t understand how.
Please can someone explain to me HOW so many insane laws and actions are permitted?
Half of it feels like a big human rights violation and to think more than 1 person allowed this confuses me.
Also, if and when trumps power subdues, will the following president be able to reverse the damage?
I know it’s hard to pass laws and is a long process, but considering he’s not even been in power a year he’s sure as hell passed a lot already.
Sorry if any of this sounds uneducated, i am. I just want to understand
I’m extremely awkward so find stuff like open days a NIGHTMARE. I recently went to the york one, travelled like two hours for it and i was on campus for maybe an hour. And most of that was spent trying to figure out where im going.
I found the department i’m looking at, but it was literally just a room with posters about the course, and i didn’t know what questions to ask the professors.
I feel like i’ve seriously wasted an opportunity, but it’s not the only open day im going to so want to make sure the following ones are more beneficial.
Is there anything i should ask? Or what do you even do an open days?!
I said what i said yall😔 (From an English perspective, not talking about other beaches)
I feel like the beach is something i’ve never been able to get on board with. I just don’t find it enjoyable at all!
You’re probably going because it’s summer; sunny and warm, so you’ll need suncream. Then the sand gets stuck to the suncream, and you’re a sticky sandy mess. You think the sea is a good idea, chances are it’s gonna be BOLTIC, if you’re on the east coast it’s also probably brown murky water. EUGH!
After a painful endurance of becoming a freezing, sunburnt, sticky sandy mess, you decide to treat yourself to some fish and chips, maybe an icecream? Oh but we haven’t eliminated the threat of seagulls. These ruthless bastards become worse by the years! They seem to double in size every summer and lack any form of boundaries. You do shoo them away, and they come back seeking vengeance and poo on you. Why is their aim so good?!?!
I genuinely see no pleasure in the seaside, but i’m at an unfortunate stage in life as a teenage girl, where my friends are attracted to the beach the same way those gulls are my chips. What is so desirable! We can tan anywhere, say a big open field? Or a lake?
We can swim at a swimming pool (bonus points if it’s clean!) And chips and icecream are available EVERYWHERE! I’m not even in a seaside town and there’s loads of chippies to go too.
Why oh why must we torture ourselves with the overstimulating environment of a beach!?
I dream summer on the yearly, as everyone suddenly turns into Dorothy from the wizard of oz. “there’s no place like skeggy beach”
SET ME FREE FROM THIS HELL!
Do people genuinely enjoy the beaches in England?
I’ve recently learned that different cultures have different ways of naming their child. Like in lots of countries, they give the child the parents surname and that’s it, but apparently other places do it differently, such as:
Arab countries: Kids often get their dad’s first name as part of their name. For example, if Ahmed has a son called Omar, he might be called Omar Ahmed.
China and Korea: The family surname comes first, then the person’s name.
Ethiopia: People often use their own first name followed by their father’s first name instead of a family surname.
Russia: People have a middle name based on their dad’s first name.
This is what google told me!! Let me know if there’s any more fun ways that your culture/country names children!
I really don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m 18, and alone. I have no real friends, i’ve never been romantically involved with anyone, i’ve never done anything fun. Just nothing.
I recently turned 18 and it just made me reflect on how truly terrible my life has been. I’ve wasted everything, i’m never going to have the chance to be young and free again. I never had any friends so spent most of my time alone, in my room listening to the same playlist on repeat, daydreaming about any life beyond this- whereas everyone from school was having parties, sleepovers, days out, having boyfriends. There were days where i couldn’t even pick up my phone out of sheer envy. Do you know how long those days were? easily 8-10 hours of just laid, waiting. Idk what i was waiting for, i had nothing to look forward to. I think i was just waiting for the next day constantly.
I know people are like “oh you’ve got your whole life ahead of you” like god please don’t remind me!! But seriously, what if one day i have kids (if anyone can bare to even touch me) and they ask about my childhood. What do i say? it was a mix of dissociating and crying, the occasional interesting science lesson? I’m so fucking BORING.
It just makes me so sad. I see no hope for my future, i just envision the same boring old loser just waiting for the clock to tick on and on until im old and frail wondering where it all went wrong. I don’t even see the point in all of this, i don’t know how to make anything of myself so why do i continue to put effort in? I still go to college and looking at universities, but for what? I’m untalented so wont make it very far. I don’t have any friends to wait around on. Even my own family doesn’t like me, they remind me all the time.
I am what the internet would call an NPC. Irrelevant, unnecessary and hardly noticeable.
Nothing in this world irritates me more than people who are consistently late. This is who the post is aimed at, not the random single time you’re late.
But those people who make bad time keeping a personality trait drive me INSANE. You showing up 30 mins to an hour late to every single event is not quirky, it’s rude and disrespectful.
Continuously delaying other peoples days because you’re too lazy to read a clock.
I don’t even want to HEAR any of that “i can’t help it” nonsense because yes you can. If you are serious that unable to stick to a time, don’t make plans!! Just because you think you’re sooo unable to be stick to a timeframe, doesn’t mean anyone else should suffer!!!
It’s even more annoying when people around them try to justify it. “oh she doesn’t mean to be late all the time, just be patient” Baby we’ve missed our train and the next one isn’t here for another 45 mins, to hell with patience. Why is it so normalised to enable this behaviour?! If i’m planning a day out with someone and they have me waiting for over 30 mins without a good reason im leaving..? Sometimes i don’t even tell them im leaving just so they face the same inconvenience that i did🥹
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Okay so you know how you set up and answer your own question, i really don’t know how to structure my poetry question.
My teacher said to do a critique quote and an evaluative statement but i just don’t know how.
Does anyone know where i even start with this? Because everything i submit just is not good enough
I’m doing post colonialism for poetry if this changes anything
I live in England, if any English people have an input on whether you’d consider this normal where you live.
I think it’s cute, but my friends have told me it sounds like a pet name!
I’m nearly 18, i’ve never had a job. In 2026 alone, i’ve applied to 65 jobs. My CV isn’t terrible, but it’s basically just examples of how i’ve built on skills, no real experience.
Every single time i apply, they always ask how much experience have i had, then i have to awkwardly tell them that im nearly a freaking adult and have never received a single pay check beyond my birthday cards.
I know lying is an option, but sometimes they’ll ask for the company name and my previous employer. What if they fact check it? Nobody’s gonna hire a liar with no experience instead of an honest person with no experience.
It’s just annoying too, because even jobs made to “build experience” are offered to younger people. I’m supposed to have gained experience by now BUT I CANT.
I’m so freaking poor, having to count out change just to afford a bottle of water at the old age of nearly 18.
I’ve tried everything too, handing my CV out to local businesses, indeed, facebook, walk ins. NOWHERE HIRES ME. I’m confident and a fast learner. What more do you really need when it comes to stacking shelves or being a waitress??
I literally feel like the most unwanted person in every aspect of my life bro like why does nobody want me, ever??
I just want money bro i’m too expensive to not have a job🥹
I’m asking out of panic right now. I’m starting a month long placement in my old secondary school next week. I left around a year ago, but my GCSE’s really impacted my mental health and i became an emotional wreck.
I had one specific teacher that i felt comfortable with, so i’d go to her classrooms at lunch to just calm down (which i rarely could).
This teacher WAS known for being kinda mean/brutal and more of a no nonsense kinda girl, but she was never like that with me, but i do worry that my emotional messy state would have made her dislike me. I’m doing my placement in her department, and i’m worried that they’ll think i’m ridiculous for how bad i got through my GCSE’s.
Am i overthinking this, or is there a very real chance they’ll think less of me? Sorry if i sound silly asking this.
Rose
Julianna
Sadie
Madeline
Matilda
Sophie
Charlotte (nicknamed lottie)
Sienna (with either May or Jade as a middle name)
Ellie
Genevieve
Sorry the list is long! Not me, but someone in my family is expecting a baby girl and they’re looking for name suggestions & these are some that i’ve come up with that i was going to send over!
Would you guys say these are appropriate/cute?
(I know some of them are very generic and popular, but that’s the vibe that the babies parents like! Their other 3 children all have relatively common names)
Open to opinions!
Edit: Thanks for all the input! I’ve decided to take Paisley off the list as it seems very disliked & i don’t want to suggest something to my aunt that could potentially make the babies life harder :)
I genuinely feel so worthless when i’m around my friends. I’m unattractive, kinda awkward and my two best friends are the stereotypical pretty blonde duo with great personalities. It’s like no matter where we go, i’m ALWAYS ignored. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, i’m not a bad person. I think i’m kind, but people still act like i’m a bad disease following these precious angels. People do it subconsciously too, my friend and I went to a university event last week and one of the tour guides (a man around our age) came over and asked if we needed help, but he like positioned himself between me and one of my friends and turned his back on me, even though he’d seen us talking together seconds earlier. It’s not even like i blanked him, he asked if we needed help and i began asking for directions for the class but he just focused on my friend. I know it seems insignificant, but it’s every single day. I am so alone and being surrounded by people who just attract people seems to lower my worth in the eyes of others. It’s always them. They get invited places, boys come over and ask for their snap. Hell, they even come up to me to ask for their number. Do you know how humiliating that is? I feel a glimmer of hope thinking that someone actually wants to talk to me, and they’re like “oh you’re __ friend, can i have her number?” and i have to awkwardly sit there and hand it over. Then they leave. They always leave. I feel like an extension of them. It’s always ___, ___ and their friend. NOBODY KNOWS MY FUCKING NAME. People we’ve known for months still call me the wrong thing, that’s if they involve me at all.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
I don’t get what makes me so repulsive that people can’t even remember my name. I’m not a bad person, not that anyone would know because people don’t even pay enough attention to me to realise. It just upsets me, for once i want to be seen as ME and not their friend.
I know people may think the best solution is to distance myself, but they’ve not exactly done anything wrong. Sure they’ll throw parties and not invite me (which is always awkward. People ask me what time it is because as their friend you’d think i’d know, then i’m sat there like huhhh i didn’t know there was a party). But i think it’s just to save me the embarrassment of being alone all night. They always get guys attention and i just don’t. Or they make friends and i get pushed aside nodding along to a conversation im very much excluded from.
I don’t mean this in an arrogant way, i don’t expect a world where everyone awes over me. I know im nothing special. Im ugly and quiet. I’m a nobody in many people’s lives, i just wish somebody would be patient enough to know me, and not know me as an added extra to something special. I understand im never going to be popular. i just want to be seen
For me, bonnie. 🙂↔️
I’m not sure if this is considered controversial, however my friends absolutely don’t believe it’s a thing.
I believe it is. I’m the ugly friend within my circle, i’m not saying i’m absolutely hideous, just didn’t hit the same genetic jackpot as my other friends. They’re all pretty, nice features, outgoing and i’m the complete opposite. It sucks but what can you do! I love hyping my girls up and i don’t hold any envy towards them!
But being the ugly friend when dealing with strangers; a wholeeee new topic.
I get judged, ignored and made fun of for the sake of other’s enjoyment more than i’d like to admit. For example, we go to parties and boys are all over my friends but not me, then get pissed off at me for being there even though i’m WITH MY FRIENDS! Or perhaps if we’re lost and ask a man our age for help, they just instinctively turn away from me and talk to my friends. Hell, just the other day we got lost at a festival, asked the guide where to go and he fully positioned himself between me and my other two friends, laughing and joking. As we walked off, i said thanks for helping and he just said “hm”.
Some more examples of the whole “privilege” aspect is just stupid stuff, like if i’m out with one friend and there’s a salesman, they always offer my friend the discount. I once went on a tour bus with my friend, for the two of us it would’ve been 24 if we got the combo tickets, but he gave my friend a free ride. I had to pay 13. I know it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but from my perspective i feel like it’s so humiliating living a life where my friends are constantly treat like angels, whereas i don’t even get treat like a person. Just an inconvenience.
Another time, my friends and i applied to the same role in a job. I had so much more experience of the role, but she got the job over me due to being “a face that everyone can trust” (basically saying a customer would feel better talking to her than me)
I know it doesn’t seem that deep from an outside perspective, but it takes over my life and i feel like nobody talks about it!!
Does anyone else have any similar experiences/ believe that beauty does open more opportunities?
I know the title seems extremely exaggerated, but i whole heartedly believe it.
All my life, i’ve been the forgotten child. From the ages of 0-7 i felt constantly outshined by my older cousin who would’ve been 13 when i was 7. She was way older, so therefore more advanced. I was always compared to her, “She does dance, why don’t you” “She plays out often, why don’t you” “Why aren’t you as behaved as her.” I was an undiagnosed neurodivergent child trying to navigate the world.
Then my sister was born. I went from being a nobody to being nothing. My sister was always prettier than me and they’d never let me forget it. All around my grandparents houses are pictures of my eldest cousin and sister together with me cropped out. When i’d ask why, it’d be “you were pulling a funny face” knowing full well i tried to smile as nice as i could. Even family christmas portraits, there’s an entire wall dedicated to each year and in every single one i’m tucked away at the back. There is one where i’m at the front with my cousins, but half of me is cut out. just a slice of my face. I know im not the prettiest but im still their grandchild. I always tried to be as good as possible but it never worked.
It’s only gotten worse as i age. We’ve had 2 new cousins since, two more girls who are now 6 and 3. I get that they’re kids and probably more important than me, but i’m still the only grandchild that they know nothing about. They could tell you exactly what my elder cousin is doing today, who she’s with and the exact job she has. They could tell you all of my sisters friends, when her recent exams where etc. and the younger girls too, they could tell you what they had for lunch at school this week.
But me? I told them i’d applied for a literature course at university. They said “since when have you been interested with literature?” I’m 18. I’ve been obsessed with the subject since i was around 8. I have non english speaking family in Asia from my other side who knew i love literature. They told me im wasting a degree and should do something proper, such as nursing or law. I want to be a teacher, always have done. I told them that too, and they said “you don’t have the confidence to be a teacher, you’ll be terrible” but they don’t know that i’ve been doing mini tutoring sessions for the last 8 months, and my kids i tutor have jumped up 1-2 grades each.
They always view me as the weird, incompetent trashy grandchild.
I’m not perfect or pretty or overly intelligent like my cousins. Im just me, and they don’t like that. They know nothing about me and they don’t even care to ask.
I get so envious hearing my friends telling me about their weekends with their grandparents, knowing that whenever i do see them they hardly even acknowledge im there because they’re too busy fussing over my cousins.
I hope one day I find my true love and that we can build a real family. I also hope he has a nice family that’ll accept me too, but if he doesn’t i’m always happy to build my own with him. It’d be small, but real, and our kids will never know what it’s like to feel the way i do.
One day im going to walk out of their house and never return to it. I don’t know when i’ll build the strength, but one day i will find the courage and be free. I can’t wait. I’ll probably be painted as the villain who abandoned her family who did nothing but love her, but if that’s what it takes to protect myself then so be it!
Hey!!
I’m 17F and really interested in photography. I don’t want it to be my full time career at the moment as i’m still in college and eventually uni.
How would i go about doing this? Do i need to take any specialised courses or do i just set up a facebook page and hope for the best?
(I currently prefer landscape photography but id like to do things such as photoshoots of families, events etc) Maybe not weddings though because the pressure of perfecting something so important scares me, i’d hate to mess it up.
Thanks!!
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