This week has been a nerve-racking one for thousands of students waiting for their exam results. It feels like only yesterday I was revising, or should I say cramming, for my GCSEs.

They were stressful times and the world seemed like it was heavily upon my shoulders. I can now look back and breathe a sigh of relief it’s all over, but it suddenly dawned on me, I will have all this to look forward to again, but from a different angle.

It started to make me a little anxious this week. What will Elijah be like? Will he study hard? Pass his exams? I even dreamed about going to pick up his results.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not willing the time away, but I think it’s natural for any mother to wonder what lies ahead.

Not only that, I was trying to remember some of the basic principles I was taught at school – Pythagoras’ theorem, long division, the periodic table, to name but a few, and thought to myself I may need to swot up especially if Elijah comes home from school asking for help with his homework. Luckily for me Michael is a trained teacher and can home school both of us.

So to calm my nerves a bit I’ve started counting with Elijah at every possible opportunity. He tends to looks at me with his big brown eyes and start laughing.

We’ve also started singing the numbers song from Baby TV around the house too and he loves it (it can get slightly annoying I have to admit). He also really enjoys it when I read to him before bed, especially when I put on funny voices and speak... very…clearly…and…slowly. (I bet you do it too.)

Rest assured I have calmed down and at the end of the day I’ll be proud of my son whatever he achieves and I’ll try not to be a pushy mum.

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