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.

I hate the school run. I have access to a car but AS DD hates driving (& tbh her behaviour is better after lots of walking). I walk nearly 4 miles a day in all weathers. People look at me like I'm insane, knowing I can sometimes use a car, but it is easier to walk in the rain with DD1 than deal with her meltdowns if I unexpectedly turn up in a car :(

Around here the mums do it, even if they work, because the dads can't drive.

True fact.

Where do you live tee outer space?
lola sane here, it's always me who has to be flexible or roll on late cis there was a forgotten p.e. kit or lunch box.
I'm getting better at telling dh to take time off if they are sick and surprisingly his work were really good about it and agreed it shouldn't always be me!
We need to start challenging these stereotypes.

I hate the school run because

1. The miserable routine - it is like going to school again myself.
2. The tedious chit chat with other mums.

The days he breaks up are always a cause for massive celebration in this house.

Nope. Northern Ireland.

I don't drive but neither does my husband.

But of my son's main school friends, those that have cars, the mums drive and the dads don't, except for one.

True fact.

I also celebrate on the last day of term and other Mums go as all they're thinking is "Oh great...got to entertain DC for weeks!" while to me that's a joy....the bloody journey daily IS NOT"!

Perfectly reasonable. I live a five min walk away and have only been doing it since September and am sick of it!

YANBU! It drives me nuts some days and we only have 400m to go. It's less the walk and more the getting ready. How long can it possibly take a 4yo to do a wee?!

Rembers those dark days of dragging mine to school with dd2 complaing every other step
Its not my school why do I have to come
Its cold
Its raining
Its to hot
My welly hurts (then finding out shes taken her sock off )
My knees hurt
My growing pains hurts
She was like a old women at 3yrs old

Loved it when I got a car though

YABU for only hating it sometimes. I hate it all the time and I drive! I am definitely one who is celebrating on the last day of term