to already be looking forward to school restarting?

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I can't take the bickering much more! DD is nearly 7 and DS is nearly 5 and it seems to be their new life pursuit to get mummy to go batshit crazy every day. We are skint at the moment so I can't afford more than one 'thing' per week (free cinema yesterday with MacDonalds after) and no amount of ignoring/seperating/chucking in the garden seems to work. I'm really looking forward to going to work for three hours today so I don't have to listen to 'MUUUUUUM, HE'S LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!' anymore. We go to the local park eveyday to burn off some energy, and they have seen their local friends regularly.
Apologies for the rant.

Is anyone else having this?

Roll on September!!

DD (7) broke up here in Spain on the 20th June and goes back on the 10th September.

She is a brilliantly behaved child but what am I supposed to do for nearly 3 months?

House is a tip!

I can NOT wait. A week tomorrow for us. We are all sick of the sight of each other despite plenty of days out. My husband is taking a week off AFTER they are back!! None stop arguing all morning so far between the three of them. I'm exhausted with it.

I admit that I am a MN nightmare parent during the holidays.
My dc's spend hours on laptops and I just leave them to it.
I don't do crafts, baking etc; too much energy required for all that .
However, my dcs are happy and healthy and that's all that counts.

This reminds me of DMIL. She had four DC all at boarding school and she dreaded the holidays. She told me that when she took them into town for "back to school shopping" was the best part of the holidays as she saw light at the end of the tunnel. However, she kept making it earlier and earlier until she realised that she was shopping two weeks into the holidays. She had a good chuckle about that. We all miss her and all her DC loved her.

I work full time but so my DS is at various summer camps so having to remember where he's going, has all the bits he needs, race to collect him on time, having to leave the house earlier than normal - I won't miss any of that once we are back to routine.

My husband is taking a week off AFTER they are back!!

ragwort my iPad is nearly surgically attached to me, I wasn't suggesting concentrating on the DVD more than keeping up with MN while asking questions such as "who's that" "why is he doing that" and not listening to the answers to get your own back for all the questions they ask you

Some good strategies being suggested here...!

So, Mumsnetters don't want to look after their kids, but are happy to criticize every little thing that a teacher (looking after 30 kids) does...

I'm an ex-teacher btw...

I have 4 kids and have quite enjoyed these holidays for the first time in years but possibly because my 3 teenage boys are old enough to do their own thing most of the time leaving me and my dd to do lovely things like lunch and swimming.

Hang on......... there's a meme for this.

Where was it said that Mumsnetters don't want to look after their kids? I love teachers by the way and admire their patience.

Adore my kids teachers! I spend every waking minute with my kids but some days are tough and you do feel like a bouncer/referee. I think it's refreshing that we are honest that the school holidays are bloody hard.

sunsoo have you read the thread? No one has criticised teachers or doesn't want to look after their DC.

I'm just looking for other strategies to deal with DC being over excited/ out of their usual routine and competing with their siblings for attention/ the nearest toy/ what channel to watch on TV.

We went to the Natural History Museum last week. It's fantastic, free and if you get there early enough you only queue for an hour to get in! DS only needed to go to the toilet 3 times during lunch and the ecology section, but had held it in around the dinosaurs and mammals section.

I'm struggling to find any reference to crappy teachers here

For goodness sake, there's always one

Raptor

My thoughts were the same as Sunsoo
No, no one here has criticised teachers but there'll be plenty of threads criticising them once the school's go back.

Yes, there may be threads like that, but not this one ilovesooty

I have never critisised my DC teachers and do not appreciate the insinuation on this thread. I started this as a slightly lighthearted plea for solidarity.

sunsoo do fuck off. Noone has bashed teachers on this thread at all. Read on future before you comment, theres a dear.

Excuse my appalling spelling. Bit pissed that someone decides to bring in teacher bashing ffs.

Currently on holiday with my three DC in their 20's and feeling slightly nostalgic about when they were little until the next villa's guests changed. 8,6 and 4 and real memories have flooded back! Well done all of you for coping, like much about parenting it is better in retrospect! My DS offered to take the 8 and 6 yo fishing earlier and the mum virtually sobbed in relief! I can see them down by the lake sitting quietly with their rods and not a squabble in sight. Isn't it infuriating how they behave so well for others!

No not this one, greenhill, I agree.

yep - acting worse than a bag of cats. have recorded tantrums for posterity, to be shown at 21st birthday party - in 19 year's time.

I am not looking forward to it. I only have one in school and hardly see her during term time and when I do she is knackered and ratty. I hate the dashing here, there and everywhere and being her chauffeur rather than her parent.

I do think it's sad to be lookingforward to them going back, though.

Home educator here. I'm looking forward to the school children going back as the museums and many other places are far less hectic in term time