To wonder why people need to "Survive" school holidays?

[SaggyOldClothCatpuss]

There are always threads about this. I've been there, done the small child phase. It's hardly life shattering! We have a garden, a playground nearby and a local beach, tv and nearby friends.
I love spending time with my Dcs, but don't feel the need to occupy them for 24 hours a day! Why would you need to survive your own kids?

A little dubious?

Right.

but MaryZ

some people are keyboard warriers

ie if they have seen 10 people paste OP, they feel its safe to leap in too

happens all the fucking time time on AIBU

unfortunately

so a gentle flaming, will encourage some less gentle posts IWSWIM

I know what I meant Maryz and it is what I wrote i.e. bullied, not disagreed. IMO it becomes bullying when other posters start making up myths about the OP and then repeating them to each other as if they were truths despite the OP refuting them.

thats true too, real bullying that makes people commit suicude etc cannot be compared to this

gotta do some work now!!!!

I'm more than aware of how MN works. OP posts something which wasn't worded very well and lots of people pile on. After about the first 20 posts nobody bothers to read OPs responses, just reacts to the OP and piles on for a flaming, the whole thing turns into a bunfight, OP leaves, gets flamed a bit more...
Sounds like par for the course TBF!

Its just that people cba to read the whole thread and want to have their say. Happens all the time. Its not really to do with "piling on" just a lot of individuals with the same pov.

All my later posts on this thread were addressed to countrykitten anyway whose posts I found far more irritating than yours Saggy. Don't worry about it too much, it will all be forgotten in an hour or so .

erm, you were a bit snippy about the beach

"What with my silly oversight in not buying a house next to a beach n'all."

maybe her beach is shit!!!

OP, are we talking azure blue sea and white sands, or a pebbly fag butt and dog shit fest????

Yes that's true mrsdv

I did actually get lamped once this term. That was when the school bus wasn't running and the city was gridlocked. I gave ds1 the choice of 'no school' or 'late to school in mummy's car' and he chose the latter. Has to wait to leave home as no traffic was moving at all. He knew he was going to school, but he still had a total meltdown because everything about the day was all 'wrong'.

When I arrived his teacher and TA's said 'we knew you'd be in'. And he calmed down considerably just from being in school even though the routine was different (they chucked him in hydro to calm him down for me).

And yes he in a special school, with 5 in his class and enough TA's that there's a higher adult:child ratio at school than there is at home.

In case anyone is still dubious

We do spend a lot of the school holidays on the beach but only when it's raining/grey and cloudy. Avoid it on sunny days (too many people)

Having read this thread I think teachers are heroes. If we can't cope during the holidays how do we expect them to cope during term time

Bloody hell!
Loving the empathy on here!
Why does it have to be a row about SN? None of us without SN kids have a clue how hard it is. My best friends dd is severely disabled and much as I love her dd I cant imagine how she gets through the day. She is depressed and emotionally and physically drained most of the time and her life is a constant struggle.
The OP wasn't referring to people like my friend or any of you who deal with SN dc but maybe this thread should make us all appreciate that there is always someone worse off than yourself and thank God that we have dc to complain about because none of us would be without the little darlings (however challenging) would we?

It can seem like 'survival'. I have 3 DDs, one has complex SN and goes to special school, she is the eldest.

I can take them to softplay, for example. DD1 is just now (at 7.2) able to play nicely on the equipment and not get herself into too much trouble.

However, I can't take her there on my own, because it's too dangerous to try and get her back to the car with her sisters (leaving and transistion seems to be a trigger point), who are 5 and 3.

That means, that no matter what I can think of doing (and to be fair, softplay is the only 'safe' activity I can take them to alone), I am stuck by the fact that I can't safely get them there and back.

Oh I love the beach. Ds1 had an inset day on Friday so I took him there to walk the dog (we were meant to be surfing but ds1 had a streaming cold so I cancelled). We were the only people there it was beautiful. Empty cafe so easy to get something to eat. In the winter/during school terms everyone there knows ds1 and it's a very easy way to spend a few hours.

School holidays can be a nightmare - it becomes gawp central

Well I'm quite lucky, Maryz. I get 2 hours support on 2 days per week, so I got my lady who normally comes after school to come with me. I also get 3 hours actual 'free time' each week at the moment.

It's interesting though, because the Kids Club which DD1 goes to on a Wednesday closes in the holidays (well...not strictly true, it alters the session times in the bigger holidays and closes in half-terms, but the hours are spread among more children...) so our support actually goes down during half-terms.

FromParisToBerlin ever been to Clacton? It's fag ends, dog shit of your lucky and people from Essex! and yes I'm from Essex so am allowed to say that.

I have been to Jaywick

yup, on holiday

makes Clacton look like Caics and Turquoise