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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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....to be bloody well fed up of being up at 7.30am every single weekend? Even though it's my own sodding fault for encouraging the DCs to ^do things^

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 07/12/2013 08:19

I have just worked out that the last time I did not have to get out of my bed at 7-7.30am on Saturday or Sunday was a very brief period in about 2005.

Honestly.

Would it be unreasonable to warn parents with younger children to never ever encourage them to do stuff that occurs at the weekend?

I have 2 to drop off to football training, plus half of their teammates apparently. This is because parents don't want to get up this early on a cold Saturday morning. So they think ooh, I know what I'll do. I will stay in my nice warm bed and let tantrums pick up my DS. And I won't even ask her, I will get my DS to text her DS, that way I don't have to feel guilty asking her.

Then I have a dd who has another drama production today. This is the third one in 2 months. I can only imagine they do this to justify the fucking extortionate cost of the fees.

I am cold. And tired. And I have to get up again at 6.45 tomorrow to watch ds1 football match and then ds2 football match.

I am not impressed

If I had known when they were young that this would require so much bloody effort I would never have encouraged them to do things.

I thought teenagers were supposed to stay in bed until lunchtime and then sit online or in front of the tv all day? Why did I have to get the ones that cant sit still for 5 minutes?

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 07/12/2013 13:12

And that's boasting?

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secretsantasquirrels · 07/12/2013 13:13

Who's stealth boasting? About what?
I think it's all the worthwhile extra curricular stuff, general business and oh, the choir practice

NigellasLeftNostril · 07/12/2013 13:13

well yes it is IMO

Sparklingbrook · 07/12/2013 13:48

Eh? Boasting?

As for getting the bus. Junior footy locations don't tend to be anywhere on a bus route. Usually an hour's drive into the back of beyond.

spritesoright · 07/12/2013 13:58

Your kids are all so lucky though and if they aren't grateful then they should be. My mum refused to take me to any lessons/activities beyond the age of 12 ( combination of costs, driving and couldn't be bothered) and I missed out.
Some parents were nice enough to drive me a couple of times and it was very appreciated.

NearTheWindmill · 07/12/2013 13:59

Ooh yes, let's all pile in for a good stealth boast.

DS went to rugby this morning and I took him. He's now rather muddy and in the bath using my bubble bath whilst I pop his kit in the machine. I am tired because I got up at 7.30 to facilitate this. DD has gone out shopping with her best friend and they are coming back to watch Harry Potter later. Meanwhile I need to pop to the shops to get a present or three and later on will start the Christmas cards.

Yes: boast, boast, boast, boast, boast.

FGS

Sparklingbrook · 07/12/2013 14:02

Blimey Windmill is there no end to your boasting?

DS1's team won 2-0. Can I boast about that?

Elsiequadrille · 07/12/2013 14:07

I too share your pain. But I also knew what I'd be letting myself in for, (try to remind myself of that on the early Sunday morning starts).

Saturday is our only free day from classes at present, even then we sometimes have Scout activities and gymnastic events to do.

Pfft to idea of stealth boasting.

NearTheWindmill · 07/12/2013 14:12

Yay to the winners.

I thought it was just martyrdom, mumdom sort of thread with like minds having a grumble. It's not as though anyone's complained about mucking out the polo ponies

NigellasLeftNostril · 07/12/2013 14:19

actually now you mention the ponies.....

Wishihadabs · 07/12/2013 14:20

I can't decide which I hate more 8:30 Saturday meets or freezing cold and dark weekday night practices which don't finish till 7pm , 7:30 by the time I given Ds's mate home all after getting up at 5:30am and doing a full day's work. But the alternative is getting DH to drag poor dd out in the cold so I can go straight home.

Wishihadabs · 07/12/2013 14:21

Oh then I can't even get in the bath to warm up as Ds uses it for a good hour !!

feelingfuckingfestiveok · 07/12/2013 14:25

We dont have to be up this early but still up and out on Sundays. We cancelled what DS did on Saturdays as it just felt like all we did was together was as an addon/tagalong to DS activites.

So now we have Saturdays free and we like chosing different things to do inc lazy moive/sofa days.

Mim78 · 07/12/2013 14:28

Can you ask some of these Mums to take a turn with you, so that sometimes you get a lie in?

prettybird · 07/12/2013 14:48

Fortunately ds' rugby is at 12.30, so even away games are not too early as start

However, his cycling is getting more and more time consuming. Tomorrow he has to be at the velodrome with him dressed and ready for 8.50 so they can straight on track as soon as they are let in the building. No chance of him going there on his own as track bikes are not legal on the roads I should be grateful for the small mercy that Glasgow now has its own velodrome and we're not having to travel to Manchester!

I'm getting to know all sorts of new places in Scotland and England (and even Donegal! ) as we take him to road races in the summer and cx races in the winter.

It's one small compensation that he is an "only" as at least we're only having to juggle two sports and not competing demands from more than one child.

prettybird · 07/12/2013 14:50

....on the plus side, today he has, for the first time (at 13), gone in to town with some friends on their own

Bunbaker · 07/12/2013 15:04

I made a point of not having DD do any regular weekend activities because I CBA to get up early at the weekend unless I have to. So DD had all her activities after school instead - swimming, dancing, art, musci lessons, Brownies and then Guides. (not all at the same time I might add)

One of DD's friends has so many activities she never has time just to "be" which is a shame. DD never gets to see her any more because she is so busy. I was talking to this child's grandmother recently and she never sees much of her grand-daughter for the same reason. I think that is sad.

I have a friend with 3 children and she is always having drive them around for their various activities. She never gets any time to herself.

SheffieldSal · 07/12/2013 16:02

I am a bad mother! So say my 3 teenage sons. I refuse to let football dominate the whole weekend, therefore sundays is 3 x matches and an early start, but I will only let them be in teams where training is midweek. Just means I have to put up with most of Saturday with football on the effing telly, unless we're out. On Saturdays I often drag them round them round the shops or a National Trust place. They really hate me for that too Fortunately they've never got into cricket (which is a good thing as it's a ridiculous game), so summer weekends are bliss.

foreverondiet · 07/12/2013 18:39

Why can't others take it in turns to so rota. Put your foot down and say you'll take the kids one week in 3. Sorry you sound like a mug.

Sparklingbrook · 07/12/2013 18:40

The people we give lifts to have parents that work at weekends-it's not that simple forever.

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