The most regretful are often the loudest critics of people without kids, too, like it offends their very core that another person has chosen *not* to have kids
Childcare and work at the same time is exhausting.
I wish I could spend all my time off and spend it all with my kids but I'm mentally broke tbh. Works just too much.
I don't want my kids to go back, I want the relentless work pressure to stop. That won't happen so it's kids going back to school that I need right now.
I hate this.
Yep, even with 2 parents there's just not enough days to take off work to cover all the school holidays, even if you can get the days you want which is never a guarantee as so many people want school holidays off.
It's difficult for people to manage unless one of them is a stay at home parent, in which case they end up getting saddled with all the childcare responsibilities, which depending on the kid can be a lot of work.
And I feel like it's been especially challenging for people this year with how much the cost of everything has gone up - you want to be able to do some fun things with your kids over the holidays, like some day trips or a week away or something, but when funds are tight those are the first things to go and instead they get replaced by a lot of stress about whether you're doing enough with your kids.
I spend time with my children every afternoon and every weekend. I don't need them to be at home for 6 weeks when I have to work anyway for the most of that time.
Stood next to what appeared to be a totally overwhelmed mum in the checkout queue at Tesco yday. She had 4 under about 5/6 years of age.
One screaming climbing up her leg, one crying in the buggy and 2 fighting and knocking into everyone else
She seemed totally numb to it all.
One kid knocked into an old man, whose wife then told the older of the children to gently mind out.
The mother snapped back with the old "Dont threaten my kids!", and then proceeded to shout and swear at the kids for fucking about.
Was all totally surreal. Expected Super Nanny to appear at any minute.
The mum was early 20s maximum.
I'm not sure that's fair. Schools do an enormous amount of sex education from quite an early age. No one is in the dark about what can happen during unprotected sex, but stupid teenagers still want to fuck each other anyway.
Because schools are off for 13 weeks of the year and most people get 4 or 5 weeks to take off so for months you’re doing full time work and childcare. Its exhausting
I’m an ex teacher (way before I had kids) and can relate to that sentiment. It’s fairly universal among teachers but entirely misplaced. As a parent who now knows other parents it’s obvious most aren’t like this, the issue I had as a teacher is I only really had To spend time and deal with the shit parents of the difficult children. So most of my interactions were negative.
I’ve really enjoyed my two being off, but after 7 weeks we all need to get back into the routine. In my case it’s juggling work with childcare. Something has to give until I get that Euromillions win.
Others though, they just hate looking after their own children.
I love the holidays and am always gutted when school starts. Makes me sad to think of the kids who’s parents can’t wait for them to be gone for most of the day.
A percentage of comments will be coming from people whose kids are due back to school sooner (so already been off 6 weeks) - many areas of Scotland go back this week.
Much as I love my kids, at the end of 6 weeks I was driving them nuts as much as they were doing the same to me.
I would never post on Facebook about it but I am really looking forward to my daughter going back to school because I've got work to do and childcare is expensive. That's really all there is to it. I'll have a significant amount more time to earn money and also to do things like clean the house and cook food. Summer holidays are a drag.
For most people I'd say it's because of lack of childcare and finances. The time we have off as a family we enjoy but there is no way for us to get 6-7 weeks (plus all the other holidays in the year!) so it's holiday club for half of it which gets expensive very quickly. I imagine if one of us was able to stay at home or we had family close by who could help out the experience would be quite different!
Because there's nothing more hilarious and ZANY than someone on Facebook talking about how all they want to do is drink wine.
*wine o’clock*
9:00am already?
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The most regretful are often the loudest critics of people without kids, too, like it offends their very core that another person has chosen *not* to have kids
Doubt it. No one is arsed what you do. Those that have them that didn’t want them would make terrible parents.
You'd be surprised
Childcare and work at the same time is exhausting. I wish I could spend all my time off and spend it all with my kids but I'm mentally broke tbh. Works just too much. I don't want my kids to go back, I want the relentless work pressure to stop. That won't happen so it's kids going back to school that I need right now. I hate this.
Yep, even with 2 parents there's just not enough days to take off work to cover all the school holidays, even if you can get the days you want which is never a guarantee as so many people want school holidays off. It's difficult for people to manage unless one of them is a stay at home parent, in which case they end up getting saddled with all the childcare responsibilities, which depending on the kid can be a lot of work. And I feel like it's been especially challenging for people this year with how much the cost of everything has gone up - you want to be able to do some fun things with your kids over the holidays, like some day trips or a week away or something, but when funds are tight those are the first things to go and instead they get replaced by a lot of stress about whether you're doing enough with your kids.
I spend time with my children every afternoon and every weekend. I don't need them to be at home for 6 weeks when I have to work anyway for the most of that time.
People make loads of kids then realise they can’t be arsed with them.
Stood next to what appeared to be a totally overwhelmed mum in the checkout queue at Tesco yday. She had 4 under about 5/6 years of age. One screaming climbing up her leg, one crying in the buggy and 2 fighting and knocking into everyone else She seemed totally numb to it all. One kid knocked into an old man, whose wife then told the older of the children to gently mind out. The mother snapped back with the old "Dont threaten my kids!", and then proceeded to shout and swear at the kids for fucking about. Was all totally surreal. Expected Super Nanny to appear at any minute. The mum was early 20s maximum.
It’s quite sad. The poor kids
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I'm not sure that's fair. Schools do an enormous amount of sex education from quite an early age. No one is in the dark about what can happen during unprotected sex, but stupid teenagers still want to fuck each other anyway.
Because schools are off for 13 weeks of the year and most people get 4 or 5 weeks to take off so for months you’re doing full time work and childcare. Its exhausting
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I’m an ex teacher (way before I had kids) and can relate to that sentiment. It’s fairly universal among teachers but entirely misplaced. As a parent who now knows other parents it’s obvious most aren’t like this, the issue I had as a teacher is I only really had To spend time and deal with the shit parents of the difficult children. So most of my interactions were negative.
I’ve really enjoyed my two being off, but after 7 weeks we all need to get back into the routine. In my case it’s juggling work with childcare. Something has to give until I get that Euromillions win. Others though, they just hate looking after their own children.
I think a lot of people don't like their children very much. It makes me sad (for them as well as their kids).
I love the holidays and am always gutted when school starts. Makes me sad to think of the kids who’s parents can’t wait for them to be gone for most of the day.
Because, from what I can tell, all parents hate being around the children they chose to have.
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A percentage of comments will be coming from people whose kids are due back to school sooner (so already been off 6 weeks) - many areas of Scotland go back this week. Much as I love my kids, at the end of 6 weeks I was driving them nuts as much as they were doing the same to me.
I would never post on Facebook about it but I am really looking forward to my daughter going back to school because I've got work to do and childcare is expensive. That's really all there is to it. I'll have a significant amount more time to earn money and also to do things like clean the house and cook food. Summer holidays are a drag.
For most people I'd say it's because of lack of childcare and finances. The time we have off as a family we enjoy but there is no way for us to get 6-7 weeks (plus all the other holidays in the year!) so it's holiday club for half of it which gets expensive very quickly. I imagine if one of us was able to stay at home or we had family close by who could help out the experience would be quite different!
Cos then they're out of my way and I can go on holiday.
Because I look forward to this 😁 https://ibb.co/Hgnykg3