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8.55am and I've been a bad mum already - a record for me

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Badmumtoday · 28/01/2026 08:56

Dd (8) is autistic, probably ADHD, I have another child with severe medical needs, and another who is autistic but absolutely loves school.

8yo has taken 2 hours of coaxing, fighting, telling me she hates me, refusing to eat... you name it, she's tried it, every single day this term to get into school.

I just couldn't do it this morning, I'm absolutely broken, so I've let her have the day off today and she's a different kid, currently voluntarily tidying her room while I sit in peace for a cuppa and is promising she will go in nicely tomorrow.

I know what they are doing in school so we will do some work later on, but, for now I'm guiltily enjoying my cuppa and some silence before I get dd up and do her physio.

Tomorrow will likely be a nightmare again, but a morning off will give me the strength to get through, I hope.

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Badmumtoday · 28/01/2026 16:49

Thank you all. Today has honestly been a joy, I feel so chilled out, and so does dd.

I'm ordering pizza tonight as well, be as well carry on the lazy day.

Tomorrow I'm going to talk to the school about dd going part time. I'm not keen to home school her entirely just yet, she needs to socialise and would miss it I think, but this can't go on. It's doing neither of us any good.

Thank you again for being so supportive, and I'm so sorry that so many of you are here too. It's not an easy place to be at all. I truly wish I had a magic wand to make everything better for us all.

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Sunshineclouds11 · 28/01/2026 18:51

Pleased you have both had a good day.
pizza sounds the best way to end it.

fingers crossed the school agree to part time, it does help take the pressure off everyone

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