To hate all the gleeful revelling in back to school posts

But you can't control what other people do, only what you do. The attention they may be seeking is yours to give or to withhold.

Take a social media break, do other stuff that brings you joy.

Because both types are attention seeking.

I don’t know- I sometimes feel like parents on social media can’t win. If they brag about their kids or how much they’ll miss them/love being a mum they get slated. And they get slated for the opposite.

I'm surprised by how many parents stay at home and therefore the new term represents a break rather than a different sort of hectic.

Don't go on social media? Block all friends who post? Why does someone's joke along these line make you feel uncomfortable- hope you're not ringing SS for every one of them. Scroll past and forget.

I get it, it's so hard when you don't get to enjoy each stage or milestone because you're fearing it could be their last, or it's taken so long to get to it, or it's a reminder that they aren't having a 'normal' experience of life. Ageing is a privilege.

I have one with suspected autism. Yeah I will be glad of a break!

Yet here you are quoting and questing so many posters.

The irony 🤣

I don’t think the OP was referring to any one post in particular.

Who has called their children ‘bastards’?

The post on fb today was something about a teacher knowing the mothers are throwing their kids over the fence and getting rid of the b.......kids ...thought this is what the thread is all about as it is truly awful

I have no interest in whether you care or not, or what you think of my struggles. I don’t know who you are. It’s just a thread on a public forum, where people are discussing a particular issue.
You appear to be irrationally angry at ‘stay at home mummy’s (sic)’. Maybe you should work on that.

It is random what kind of political correctness English people accept and what other truly awful wording they think it is funny.....do you indeed have bastard kids, and do you believe your kids deserve to be called this

No, you were deliberately trying to be antagonistic.

Unfortunately for you I don’t care.

Poor you and your juggle struggle.

Who has talked about ‘bastard kids’?

If I am correct ...some of the post means bastard kids....if you joke in my country like that to any parents , especially the father, you honestly might end up at least slapped in the face. People here laughing at this word because ?

Apologies, you used a possessive apostrophe in ‘mummy’s’ rather than the plural ‘mummies’ so your sentence was confusing.
I work and am relieved when they go back to school, as the childcare juggle is challenging. I live fairly rurally with minimal holiday clubs etc, and it’s a real struggle.

Sorry can you not read a sentence?

Let’s be honest the ones who are mainly affected are stay at home mums. Working mums still have to arrange nursery/clubs because they are working.

I have witnessed many stay at home mums on social media celebrating their kids going back to school. I honestly think it’s uncomfortable and unpleasant. Why even have kids if you can’t wait to ‘get rid’ of them?

I don’t have social media so no posts, but I got the third of my three back to school today (they’ve been off since the beginning of July!) and as Thursday is my day off I told them I was going to lie on the sofa all day watching films and eating their snacks, rejoicing in the quiet! They took it in the spirit it was intended, which was a joke.
I actually spent the day cleaning up the carnage that 8.5 weeks of school holiday created.

It doesn't make me uncomfortable, and I can understand why some parents feel like that. I just find it a bit odd that they so gleefully admit it to the world.

I don’t feel like that but it doesn’t bother me. Some of them are amusing. Haven’t seen any actually cruel ones

And DC1 now flounces upstairs occasionally announcing that he wants a break from us all and will be in his room 😂.

I definitely recall wanting a break from my own parents and sibling. Most people like a break from others including family members and people they live with. It’s actually healthy to have some time to oneself.

I collected my kids from school today. They were poking and winding each other up the whole way home. As tbh they've been doing for the past couple of weeks, having had a little too much of each other's company.

It doesn't take all that much imagination to work out why some parents might like a bit of a break from this 😂.

I don't post about my kids on social media but, if I did, I might post something about being glad school has restarted.

Given we live in an era of oversharing in general (or "sharenting", as I think it's called in relation to kids) I'm confused about why this in particular would cause outrage.

In amongst all the posts about summer fun, Halloween, Christmas, visits to Santa, days out, Valentines, Easter egg hunts, sports achievements and all that, I doubt it is going to cause today's children any real upset if they find out when older that their parents were happy to pack them back off to school come September.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but my DC, or at least the older one, is well aware that I like some time to myself occasionally. And DC1 now flounces upstairs occasionally announcing that he wants a break from us all and will be in his room 😂.

I had a lovely summer with DS. BUT my house looks like a bomb site, I’m behind on my work, and I haven’t set foot in a gym since June. So I am glad we are back in our normal routine.