to be annoyed by people complaining about the "intensity" of the summer holidays

[whoneedssleepanyway]

Met some friends yesterday, they are both SAHMs, I work 3 days a week in fairly high pressure job and my DDs are in nursery (private nursery so no summer holiday).

They were both complaining about how the summer holidays had seemed so long and it was so intense looking after the children for that length of time and find things to do and how their children were getting bored now.

All our DC1s are due to start reception in September.

Both patronisingly said to me "you don't realise at the moment but you will do once your DD1 is at school how long and intense the summer holidays are", to which I was like "Well sadly I will still have to work in the summer holidays so won't have the benefit of spending all that time with my DDs"

WTF...I would LOVE to have the whole summer off with my DDs, oh the poor things having to spend the summer finding things to do with their children...

AIBU?

Very wise MrsBaggins!

Thanks
I have done all sorts of combinations of SAHM,Partime/Wohm now FT WOHM (teens) there were pros/cons for each.
I also think the poster who mentioned breaking up the intensity was right -doing the same thing day after day gets a bit much.
My tip for the summer hols is to get out every day -even if its raining .Make them run around ,put em to bed and get the out

My ds is only 3, (nearly 4) he started school nursery in Jan and this is our first summer holiday. I feel so guilty and so sorry for the poor little sod. He is miserably bored with me and i cant do anything about it. We have managed to pay a full day a week at the day nursey, but thats £70 for the two of them and we dont have the money. I have no money at all actually so we cant go anywhere, dh is spending all his time on the house and trying to find a job so hes too busy for much even if we did have the cash. My ridiculous mental health means i cant go out anywhere. It has literally been me DS and DD sat looking at the four walls for 6 weeks. Its fucking miserable. I hate the holidays and my kids will too until they are old enough to entertain themselves or we get the cash together to pay for full time childcare.

Yes im a SAHM. I dont want to be but i cant do anything else as certified nut job. To most friends i probably sound like a whinge bag too as they dont know how nuts I am

Mrsbaggins, I think that's been my main problem this holiday. At 8mths pregnant I haven't been able to get them into bed whilst the wine breathes!

Heehee ! I should add mine are teenagers so I dont actually make them run around anymore nor put them to bed

Wait til they're teenagers. They go to bed later than you and look a bit every time the wine comes out

BabyDubs sends you a sneaky{{hug}} dont tell on me !
Dont feel guilty -we can only do the best we can.
Could you afford some second hand books ,puzzles from charity shop-always got mine from them > Send him out in the garden with a plastic pot to look for bugs ? Ds loved doing that
I had a box I kept hidden with some fresh crayons (cheap) and paper for really grim days and my piece de resistance -some pavement chalks .Ds would think we had won the lottery !

BabyDubsEverywhere Hi, are you agoraphobic? (yes I'm nosy but have experience of that . . . agoraphobia that is not nosiness!)