To think that 6 weeks hol is too long?

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Can't help thinking that 3 or 4 would be better for parents and kids, who get bored so easily.

Mrs Mellow I'm sure that's true, but long holidays are really difficult if you aren't a stay at home parent - it doesn't arise for us yet, as DP is on career break, I work from home a lot, and DD is only 18 months. But it's incredibly hard for working parents on modest incomes without family who will help out

no not longer at christmas you tend be stuck indoors more

6 weeks and 5 days, they go back on friday for some reason.

it's a nightmare for me beacuse i work during school hours so i don't use regular childcare. i have to arrange childcare for they days i can't get off, which is not cheap and i'm not here to take them to alot activities that they would like to do.

my dc just don't enjoy it. they miss their friends.

if i was a sahm i would not have a problem with 6-7 weeks though

First day of the holidays here - so dd2 was up at 6:45 because she was so pleased! I have to wake her on schooldays.......

maryz...you telling me your kids get 13 weeks off school?

I love the 6 weeks holiday. DD actually gets a week or two more as it is.

Even before I worked in a school again I loved having all that time, uninterrupted, with DD. No early rises, no having to get to bed on time, sp much more relaxed.

And it passes way too quickly for me. I still don't get to do everything I want to with DD. We don't get chance to get bored.

And I definitely don't want extra weeks in the cold, wet or snowy winter instead of he summer where days are longer and more chance of good weather!

I work in a school too - 6 weeks off - YAY!!!!

Have booked lots of fun things to do starting with DN's party tomorrow and big day out for DS2's birthday Weds.

Am really looking forward to my girlie spa weekend 15th Aug too...

YABU.

I love the holidays

yes holidays are too long not for the kids but the parents my children hate going to childcare whatever one i choose so it puts me in a really difficult situation-i have to work, they have to go. if you dont work you dont get it. and the stress before they finish is unbelievable where can they go/for the shortest period/ who will take them collect them? is there any vacancies how much does it cost? my dc are all early risers no matter what day it is so 9am is mid morning to me. im lucky if they still in bed at 6.30. if i didnt work it would be lovely though.

Ok, so we have to feel guilty if we hate the summer holidays too (makes a note). It's a very long list of guilty parent indulgences.

Last year it was too long. We had a house move, no holiday and nothing much planned.

This year it will fly. We have a 2 week holiday, tennis camps, days out with friends, playdates, visits to parks, birthday parties etc.

I have really missed my DC whilst they have been at school/preschool this year. We are all knackered. I just want to sit in the garden and cuddle them for 6 weeks really!

We have five weeks and it does not feel long enough. Dd is with her dad for a fortnight, we are away as a family for two weeks so that leaves a week.

I don't think it's too long, but:

We are not going on holiday any where.

We do not have any "playdates"

We do not have the money to go to seaside/theme park type places more than once.

I don't have any friends, therefore the children don't have any ready friends to play with.

We will visit the park more than is healthy for a person.

I am not a crafty Mum who can rustle up a decoupage before you can say glitter glue.

So yes, my poor children suffer.

6 weeks a complete drag imo,shitty rain,tantrums and all the other shite that goes with it, if I had the cash I would employ a full time nanny and do something far more interesting.I think that anyone who enjoys knocking about with 8 year olds for 6 weeks needs to get their head checked tbh.

yabu
dd is over the moon

I do think its the wrong length of time. 6 weeks is neither here nor there - if it were 4 weeks then it would be a short holiday (maybe too short for everyone to get to go on holiday) The 8 or 12 week cycle however means that you can get involved with camps so that teachers can earn some extra money children can have a more rounded experience, catch up on summer camps etc and still go on holiday.

I love knocking about with my eight year old for 6 weeks, I look forward to it all year. I totally get thatvthd holidays are hard practically but to dread being with your kids for 6 weeks seems quite sad.

"I think that anyone who enjoys knocking about with 8 year olds for 6 weeks needs to get their head checked tbh. "

Or should have thought things through before having children........?????

5 and a half weeks here...just broken up...too short! I'm a teacher and my ds1 starts school in sept...any amount of holiday wouldn't be enough.
I appreciate the difficulties for working parents of school age children, but for anyone bemoaning spending a few precious weeks with their children in the summer...well frankly I feel sorry for you if it's a chore. I am relishing the prospect of 'knocking about' with a 4 year old and a 1 year old for the summer - bring it on .
We'll do parks, the garden, grandma's house, swimming, friends',....and apart from when actually on holiday will spend next to no money at all.

You have children by your own choice. It is therefore up to you to deal with school hols. Do not bitch now about length of hols. You were brought up in the system so you bloody well know how it works. Get a grip....school is NOT a childminding facility. It is based on education. The law requires your child to be educated. EDUCATED....not child-minded. Spot the difference. I tried to post earlier regarding my experiences but may have been outwith posting hours or somesuch. Bet I get shot down in flames by lots of working mums who feel hard done by. And before you judge...my husband worked bloody hard so I could stay home with our two kids. THEN when they went to school I went out and did degree, etc., etc. We had literally no money. But we had kids by our own choice.....and enjoyed the fact that we had them home during school holidays!!

O love ythe hols and its the only time the ds's dont get stressed (2 with SN)

Plus the council would struggle to recruit for 2 SN playschemes surely, over shorter hols?

I prefer them exactly as they are

And for those of us whose schools have a blanket no time off rule summer hols costs would rocket as well if tehre were less time to fit in UK trips and I doubt the tourist industry wopuld be much chuffed either