ADs and their pampered poodles

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Here we are again, gaining sequels even more rapidly than the Fast and the Furious...

@TrustTheGeneGenie

checking in. Feeling shite this morning, lack of sleep - poor ds still suffering from night terrors. Still hoping he will grow out of them.

Went for another sodding walk in the park yesterday but with our "bubble" ie my friends and their baby. Was nice.

I would say about 80% of families in the park had met up with another family. Well bloody good on them i say. The tide has turned, but people are keeping quiet about it because they dont want to be told on and fined.

After hearing the news re schools i am hugely relieved ds can still attend (Sorry not trying to be insensitive to everyone else who is struggling but we had an awful time last time at home) but i am appalled foir everyone else. Cant even guarentee after easter? so another what 3 months off this year, on top of most of last year? its just not good enough!

i heard a clip of boris on the radio saying he knows its not a substitue, and then saying they can go back when its safe - what like they were safe the DAY BEFORE he closed them? Wanker.

@TrustTheGeneGenie if I may, can I suggest something re the night terrors? My grandson had these and I'd read what to do to help. It actually worked.

If it's roughly about the same time each night, shake them awake about an hour before it starts. Not enough to wake them properly, just enough to get them to open their eyes, possibly turn over/ sit up but not enough to talk to. If it's at various times, do it before you go to bed.
We tried this with our grandson and within a week he'd stopped. I vaguely recall that it works as it resets the sleeping pattern/ brain and it really does work. Make sure that he's not too hot.

Not for my children anyway. I honestly never thought that my decision to be a SAHM meant that my children would actually be denied access to school. That never occurred to me as a possibility.

@ISaySteadyOn

I am a terrible teacher. They hate doing anything I ask. And DD2 wants to be in school so badly.

I don't believe schools will ever reopen now.

I'm a great teacher - but of high school English, not year 2 everything, and not for my own child!

Children want teaching from a teacher, they want parents to parent. It's not you.

@ISaySteadyOn

I am a terrible teacher. They hate doing anything I ask. And DD2 wants to be in school so badly.

I don't believe schools will ever reopen now.

I've given up apart from zoom. I'm so angry today that we are giving up so much and for so long. It's really not as simple as stay at home and it's all rosy, it's not. I barely get any alone time anymore, my husband has temporarily moved out so I'm doing it all solo now.

I can't be stuck at home for another 3 months or longer. Today is the kind of day I need distracting, at work, in the gym, I need to be alone and not dealing with 2 small children. Can't have anyone look after them, can't have anybody round to help drown my sorrows so I'm totally alone and wondering if I'm doing the right thing.

What is the point anymore?

Scratching my head here, picking up grandson from school, want to take him somewhere the police will not be patrolling, gawd what a ballache.

Wish we could get together @mightbealittlebitmad. I'd drown sorrows with you.

I can't do Zoom. However, it's my own fault for two of them. I pulled them out in September because they were so unhappy. So any tips on teaching 6 yo, 7 to and 10 yo welcome. Followed Piccadilly's advice as best I could but need more help. DD2 loves school and is so sad she can't be there.

This is from ONS stats, "Rates of death involving COVID-19 in men and women who worked as teaching and educational professionals, such as secondary school teachers, were not statistically significantly raised when compared with the rates seen in the population among those of the same age and sex."

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19relateddeathsbyoccupationenglandandwales/deathsregisteredbetween9marchand28december2020

Well, you can already see people on here who claim to be teachers changing their arguments. It’s not about keeping them safe any more, it’s about preventing community transmission, don’t you know .

Apparently, there's some ONS data that's slipped out which shows that the 'new variant' does not, in fact, spread more quickly.

Let me see if I can find the charts.

@mightbealittlebitmad 😔 I know exactly how you feel. Hold on.

What concerns me is that slapping covid death on certificates will skew the data moving forward. Will dementia have disappeared, cancer, etc? How do we plan health care in the future.

Is it wrong of me to want school children to line the streets showing this?

@ISaySteadyOn

I am a terrible teacher. They hate doing anything I ask. And DD2 wants to be in school so badly.

I don't believe schools will ever reopen now.

So am I... despite a PGCE and working up to MPS6... Casual supply with 150 random teenagers a day, no probs. My own beloved offspring 🤯

It's not any better since the day the TAs' strike meant I had to teach my rumbunctious y9s while pretending that there wasn't my 5 year old stood up the skirt of my dress!

We've been investigating the effect of aspect of slope on snow-melt while sledging.
I hit the Leave button on Guided Reading. Ds2 clearly was not bringing his brains or attention span along this morning. A good snowball fight has woken him up!

Oh lord Wanksock is on telly again tonight.

New work come up on Facebook - maybe should be incorporated into next thread title along with Freddy Mercury.

Mimophant - someone who has the sensitivities of an elephant towards other people and the sensitivities of a mimosa towards himself.

MN Ds of a certain profession being prime examples.

@NannyGythaOgg I loves me a good portmanteau.

That is a very good word! Perhaps “ADs know that Freddie Mercury was no mimophant”. With the caveat that I didn’t know FM so have no idea about his elephant/mimosa tendencies.

We’ve sacked off homeschool today as well. I took DD to the dentist this morning for the first time in years and she has a mouth full of cavities and needs an extraction. I feel like the shittest mother in the world. I knew I needed to get her registered and she should be going every 6 months, but there’s always been something else more urgent taking up space in my tiny, stupid, muddled brain. Poor DD. Letting her off White Rose maths worksheets seems like the least I can do for her this afternoon.

I think I could put the “Boris : waste of space” poster in my window, though. A more subtle way of showing resistance to lockdown. I’d love to put the sheep in masks in my car window, but I don’t dare.

@NastyBlouse

Apparently, there's some ONS data that's slipped out which shows that the 'new variant' does not, in fact, spread more quickly.

Let me see if I can find the charts.

Please do @nastyblouse

thank you @Curlygirl06 !! i go in and check on him just before i go to bed on a night and it is usually an hour or two after that so i will give it a go!

poor boy, we thought they would have stopped by now!

@NastyBlouse, please dig out that ONS info!

I took mine to the beach this afternoon. Youngest is supposed to be doing nature school and eldest will catch up by Friday, her lessons are video not live so can do them when ever. Had to make the most of the sunny weather. Feel so good for being out.

Bear with me on the ONS thing

But in the meantime, oooh this is interesting.

This recent study from Stanford University (5th January) has found no significant benefit to what they're calling 'more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions' (lockdowns/stay-at-home orders and enforced business closures) in terms of reducing case growth, over and above 'less restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions' i.e. the approaches taken by Sweden and South Korea.

The conclusion reads as follows:

While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less restrictive interventions.

In the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions (“lockdowns”) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020.

It's quite dense academic language but well worth reading the full report, it's very interesting.