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To hate all the gleeful revelling in back to school posts

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Chocolatelollyforbreakfast · 04/09/2025 10:15

Instagram posters etc actively rejoicing in getting in the kids back to school, jokes about chucking them through the door and so on
I get it, it’s hard with kids off, you have no peace and so on, but these posts just make me feel uncomfortable and the videos just aren’t that funny

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OSTMusTisNT · 04/09/2025 12:57

For me, it wasn't so much them being back to school, it was being relieved of needing someone to look after them everyday while I was at work that was the gleeful bit.

DolphinOnASkateboard · 04/09/2025 12:56

Like most jokes on social media they're so very tired and over-done as to not really be funny anymore. But they're essentially harmless, and point to an essential truth that having small kids off school for six weeks while trying to hold down a full-time job and keep normal life ticking over is not exactly relaxing.

And I'd take eleventy billion such jokes over one smug, sanctimonious, "I understand that not all families are as perfect as mine but I treasure every last second I spend in the company of my utterly faultless offspring" post. Not least because we all know you're lying.

OriginalSkang · 04/09/2025 12:55

I've not seen a single thing like this. Maybe its more about the people you socialise with?

FullOfMomsense · 04/09/2025 12:55

I get it, it's a bit annoying that they think it's a hilarious joke when it's just a bit boring.
The posts that really piss me off are the "Stop getting older/growing up" posts. I know what they mean by it but it's so insensitive and silly to say you want your children to not get older.

TheatreTraveller · 04/09/2025 12:53

I think it's just a joke for most people (sadly true for others who are struggling but then are probably less likely to post about the relief).

I'm apparently (according to this thread) part of the other hated group with the opposite viewpoint - generally devastated and tearful the summer is over as was DS (DD not as much as she was so excited to start reception) we've had the most amazing time together as a family on various holiday and trips. It's been the best time of my life. I hate the cold and dark weather, and relentless school routines.

HappyHunting101 · 04/09/2025 12:49

I just feel sorry for them. My kids are incredible and I love having them at home, the summer has gone way too fast. But I see kids that are an absolute nightmare and I know it is probably a relief to have a break from them.

ChelseaDetective · 04/09/2025 12:47

They’re just jokes. If it upsets you just get off social media or retrain it to different topics.

I don’t blame people for being genuinely relieved to be back in term time though. Modern motherhood being so intense, with no help available to most is one of the reasons I decided not to have kids.

GleisZwei · 04/09/2025 12:47

EchoedSilence · 04/09/2025 10:16

Don't look at them then.

This.

SouthLondonMum22 · 04/09/2025 12:46

savoycabbage · 04/09/2025 12:06

At my dc’s primary school in Australia they had champagne in the library after school drop off on the first day.

Australia are doing it right.

MyDeftHedgehog · 04/09/2025 12:39

My children went to school before the advent of social media. We had to make do with punching the air joyfully 😅

SleeplessInWherever · 04/09/2025 12:38

I’m not sad our (SEN) son is back at school one bit.

He loves school, ran in this morning without looking back, and he absolutely craves the routine and structure.

Because of that he’s had some absolutely horrendous points of this summer. Behaviour and sleep disruption off the scale. There’s been points this summer I’d have sent him to outer space, nevermind back to school. He doesn’t need to spend every waking minute with us, he needs his peers and an education.

Waved cheerfully off yesterday and today, back into a stable routine. Not sure what there is to be sad about!

HoLeeFuk · 04/09/2025 12:36

Try LinkedIn instead. Endless photos of children standing on the doorstep in uniform and a soppy post about how amazing it is to see them grow and what it taught the poster about B2B sales.

Justdontknowhow · 04/09/2025 12:36

I often think these are people who don’t need to juggle work and kids in school at the same fime tbh 🏃‍♀️

AhBiscuits · 04/09/2025 12:35

It's a joke. Lighten up.

Tablesandchairs23 · 04/09/2025 12:34

Get a life.

SummerHouse · 04/09/2025 12:25

I feel equally sad and happy about them being back. I think it's pretty pointless and annoying to post about either feeling. This is why I don't spend time on social media.

HelloHattie · 04/09/2025 12:24

Scroll past then and wait til the Halloween present piles start

TeenLifeMum · 04/09/2025 12:22

I saw an “hilarious” photo of - mum with her middle finger up on the doorstep and dc walking down the garden path turned with middle fingers up back. People were loving it. My only thought was “we’re different a kind of parents”.

Corfumanchu · 04/09/2025 12:21

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Goldplatedhinges · 04/09/2025 12:19

Past trauma? Maybe get some help or at least stay off social media for a while!

SailingYachty · 04/09/2025 12:12

It’s just a bit of fun, my kids were desperate to get back to school, they much prefer being busy and with their friends. They’d be saying the same, hooray to getting away from my parents! It’s all tongue in cheek, it doesn’t mean we haven’t enjoyed the holidays, but I can be so glad I don’t have to work out what we’re all going to eat constantly!!

arcticpandas · 04/09/2025 12:08

Twistedfirestarters · 04/09/2025 11:52

Most people are in the middle really but I think it's part and parcel of social media that people exaggerate for engagement.

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This is why I don't have social media. Don't have the time for parhetic attention seekers. I will admit that I was happy to send my kids in to school though but don't feel the whole world needs to know.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 04/09/2025 12:07

I think it's just the counterpoint to all those who are posting that they are in tears, that they are going to miss their babies sooooo much, that the house feels so empty etc etc.

Most people are just getting on with it.

savoycabbage · 04/09/2025 12:06

At my dc’s primary school in Australia they had champagne in the library after school drop off on the first day.

Chobby · 04/09/2025 12:04

I’ve not actually seen anything like this so I guess it depends who you follow on social media.