Its great when friends come round and share time and laughter, even more so when that friend has made such a transformation, not only in herself but in her children as well.
It started a while ago when I started tutoring her two children; the eldest, a girl, showed promise way in excess of her school curriculum ( I knew, I taught at the school) and watching her move around from one lesson to the next it was clear she was cocooning herself from the unpleasantness of the others around her.
"Whatever you do," I said to her mother, "you have got to get her out, she is drowning here!"
Within the year R*****l was out and into another school where she is now flourishing and already stretching herself to new heights. She has her first set of GCSEs under her belt and is going for the remainder this year.
Since then I have worked with the mum and we have dealt with the issues from the past in both her and her daughter; now two glamorous women stand before me!
Today she came round and looked at me, I knew there was something.
"OK, so here it is," she said,"Ra*****l really annoyed me and I don't know why."
She went on to explain what had happened and as she was recanting it, a recognition came over her face.
"No wonder it annoyed me, that is still in me. Oh, gawd I thought I had cleared that one." She turned to herself and grinned, "So some of the old Sharon is still floating in there. Nope, we are not going back to victim mode, it stops here, now, what is it in me my daughter was flagging up for me to see?"
She went quiet for a while, then giggled, "Yes, that's it." And she went on to recant all of what it was. Within half an hour a taller, happier Sharon walked out of my house.
"Your teaching is great," she said," I would never have got this far with me or R*****l if it hadn't been for learning all about this."
With that she reached forward and gave me a hug, "Right when we going to hit the town, I feel a shopping trip coming on...."
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