Pre summer holiday rattiness, is this normal?

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Our summer holidays start in a week and DS is absolutely wretched with tiredness, moaning about everything and so unlike himself.

Is this normal?! Does it wear off as they get older?

Normal. Terms are long, kids get tired.

Definitely normal. My DC reach a point around about now where they're fed up and are ready for the summer holidays. They don't break up until the 19th July so I've got a few more weeks of whining, stropping, and overtired shenanigans.

Yes 100%. I also find this happens the last week or two before Christmas. I think it’s because the routine changes - lots of excitement, school trips, shows, fetes, sports days etc. They all get worn out and tearful and can fall out with their friends etc. Mine haven’t grown out of it tbh but it’s really helpful to be able to anticipate it happening. I try to do slightly earlier nights and quieter ‘at home’ activities after school to keep them on an even keel!

A classic case of 'end-of-term-itis'.

Symptoms include: whining, stroppiness, and a general inability to get out of bed in the morning.

Note: Not to be confused with 'teenager-itis' which has similar symptoms but lasts for far longer.

Not just kids, I’m on my summer holidays this weekend and my husband informed me this morning that I’ve reached all time levels of rattiness (and I had a cry in the broom cupboard at work yesterday)

I think I have this. Is there a cure?

It IS like having a teenager

I'm so glad I haven't booked a holiday for the first two weeks because it would an all round miserable experience.

Yup - when they are little they are worn out and when they are bigger it’s ‘ive just sat exams so I’m doing NOTHING’.

Yep its normal the kids are exhausted by now and needing a break. Our school has 3 weeks left to go and ds aged 7 is starting to get like that. All my friends kids do too. We try take a couple of quiet days at the start of the holiday which helps.

Absolutely. I think schools tend to cram it all in, as was mentioned above. It's just too much. We've had school trips every week since the end of May half term and my youngest one especially is like some helicopter spinning out of control without its propellers.

Oh yes my 10 year old has a bad case of this. I'm feeling much the same myself. Can't wait for summer hols.

And that's just the children...😂...think of the staff. Schools at the end of term are often very tense, everyone is so tired. ( though not yet, we don't finish until 23rd of July)

We have 4 and a bit weeks to go. I definitely have it. Completely burned out.

One DS has it, the other hyperventilates when he realises how close the holidays are as he misses school.