Thanks for the criticism. I almost thought so, but will now make up the names or use a whole name instead of just a letter. You're right, it's a bit tiring for the reader if you're not in the story or making it up as I am. All the more pleasing for me that you actually took the trouble to read the whole thing a second time.

And you have a good eye, as always, and can see that it has authentic features. Some of the events really happened, but it's still legitimately fiction because some of it wasn't real and there are too many omissions to make it a non-fiction story.

Children shall come first, yes. Not in the sense to spoil them but to give them a model how conflicts are being met by the adults, so they have a chance to witness it in a way where they learn something. But even though when single actors in the dynamics of the group act in a non appreciative way, this too can be a learning experience. ;)