To sometimes find the school run completely dreadful?

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I find that I go through periods of just hating it....the drag of getting the DC ready....mid week is worst when they're tired and the long week stretches out. I hate getting ready....I hate smiling that early in the morning....it's 2 miles for me so means a bus if I've not got a lift....it's so frigging WEARING!

I know it's not like going down a mine or something....but what a fucking commitment! Twice a day EVERY day while they're little. All that "Hi...how are you? Cold isn't it!" drives me NUTS.

Sounds grim. God I'm not looking forward to this.

Maybe I'll be lucky and mine will enjoy frolicking behind me down a motorway whilst I play the pan pipes.

Doubt it though.

Urgh! You have my sympathy.

"Maybe I'll be lucky and mine will enjoy frolicking behind me down a motorway whilst I play the pan pipes."

My guilty pleasure is bunging the 3 yr old in the buggy with a Dairylea Dunker for the middle school run and gassing with my mate all the way there and back.

Ignore me, I'm just feeling warm and happy at the moment! Not sure why, I haven't been drinking.

You're feeling warm and happy because you don't have to do the school run tomorrow PocketFluff ;)

I'm not keen on the school run either....

I find mornings very stressful as I'm not really a morning person. Then the walk to school (albeit only 5 minutes) having to make small talk or say hello to everyone I pass as I live in a village and we all seem to know each other!

Don't get me wrong, I find all of the mums at school are great, and I've made loads of lovely friends. I'm just antisocial!

The thought of the DC and I frolicking down the motorway has cheered me. Thank you Harold I will envision that tomorrow as I shove the DC out into the cold!

I don't envy any of you the school run, it can be lovely and it can be awful.
So glad I don't do it anymore.

hey, if you really hate it that much, you could do what we did . H.ed

I am thinking about H.ed. funnily enough Would not have countenanced it but have had a couple of brill days with my dd. however, I don't think I am disciplined enough to get everything done with her.

These threads always make me laugh. I mean who actually walks eight miles a day five days a week?
Apart from being knackered, by the time you got hind it would be nearly find to leave again and that's not taking into account the fact that god forbid you might actually have a job to get to.
What about in the driving wind and rain? Do people still expect us to believe they have a lovely enjoyable stroll to school while chatting gaily to their happy skipping children!
Come on now!
And yes I also hate the monotony and adore the schoo holidays as a break from it all.

Ledkr I know! So funny...and yet so fricking irritating!

"Come on small folk....get thy clogs on...tis' time to hike up the mountain to school. With any luck we'll be there afore sunset..."

Bugger off with your walk 4 miles a day nonsense. Who does that 5 days a week?
I have 3 year old and 7 month old to drag along for the ride.
In fact this thread just reminded that as off January when dd3 starts nursery I'll need to do it 3 times a day.

When you see that the majority of the picker uppers in the playground are female, you might well ask Ledkr. like everything else, we are meant to get on with, make it fun for everyone and imagine it is putting steel in our spines.

but we all know that nowadays, there is no way kids are allowed the same chance to get themselves to school and back till they are almost in secondary school. I think I was about 7 when I walked to school alone with my 6 year old sister and 2 years later the youngest joined in. you want to see the route we took. makes me feel a bit gulpy when I think of it. but sure we lived.

Lol.....yes! Soooo much fun! Fun, fun, funnity FUN! I love it me....give me a whiny 5 year old and a hormonal 9 year old...GIVE me a 2 mile walk at 7.00am in the rain and driving wind up the motorway! It will make me a woman!

Even in 1978 the social services would have been onto my Mum had she sent me alone on this route Lola. I walked too... but nothing like this.

Good point lola you never hear anyone suggesting a bloke walks a few miles to work do you?
I don't walk anywhere if I can help it it's the twenty first century fgs that's why the wheel was Invented

Icame I know what you're saying. there is way more traffic on the road than when we were little. we even had to dodge herds of cattle going to the abbatoir. seriously. we knew we'd be eating them for lunch on sunday....good old days

I was actually commenting to a friend today that the highlight for me in having gone back to work is not having to do the school run 2 days a week. DH drops them off at breakfast club on his way to the station and someone else collects them.
Job may end at the end of this year and am dreading the thought of going back to it every day
You have my smpathy

Lol, I did walk the 10 mins to school alone from age 6. Some days, I even had to stop and wait for a car to pass so I could cross one of te two roads.

Almost 4 decades on, I live somewhere with 9-10 roads to cross and a lot more traffic. Unlike my boys, I didn't have severe SN.

Ledkr there are men at the gates, but the vast majority are women. either carers or mothers. even safety for kids on the way to school, as the OP mentions with the roads being what they are today is an after thought rather than a priority for local government never mind higher up. Let the ladies plod along, they'll be grand.
This belongs in the same column as that headline "Men don't do more childcare....cos they don't want to"
That nearly made me whack me head on the ground....just look around for evidence of it, a survey will tell you as much as standing in a playground on any given morning. Who the fuck really wants to have to do that everyday and tell you its a joy? oh and this is a luxury. to be a sahm.....like fuck in some respects.

The happiest moment in my life well not quite, but not far off was when DD1 got a spot on our walking school bus. In return for leading once a week, I bring her to the meeting place and a group of kids walk together to school with an adult leader. It means I only have to drag DD2 on the walk once a week, DD1 gets the exercise and fresh air with her friends and I get to get going earlier to whatever I need to do.

It's a wonderful system. If only they did it at home time too.

Isn't it amazing though? That the mums have jobs yet seem to be largely responsible for drop off etc. IF the mums jobs can be flexible etc. why not te same for the mens. Look, I am a very frustrated sahm with a workaholic husband though he does from time to time do the drop off. but any kind of child care issues that get in the way of his job, cause much fraction and fussing. just seen as my job to get on with.