AIBU to feel so upset about the end of school break?

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I think I am hiding it well, hubby thinks so too, I don't want to put the kids off school.

There's no problems with the schools, I am just really upset that they go back tomorrow. The house will be quiet, we won't have any time together, we're back to the school routine, morning rush, evenings with mum nagging to check everything is ready, the usual chaos.

I know school is very important for the social aspect, I wouldn't dream about them not going, and they seem happy enough there. It's just Sunday blues! I love the holidays.

Tell me I am not the only one to feel so sad, how do you cheer yourself up?

My daughter doesn't go back til next Thursday. I'm very envious of all of you with kids going back tomorrow.

Hoidays are hard work here: 7 y/o daughter who NEEDS to be doing lots of exciting stuff all the time, and 4 y/o autistic son who can't cope with changes to routine and needs lots of time to potter about in his own little world. 2 kids with polar opposite needs = a sodding nightmare. Roll on next week and the start of term.

President, that's so sad (but true).

I am sad the holidays are over. We had a bloody lovely time. Wouldn't wish it away for all the money in the world.

Mine went back last Monday and I hated it. I love when mine are off but dd loves school so it's good for her. I feel the same every Sunday evening I'm dreading Monday coming when I have to wave them off. Why do holidays always fly by? Time goes way too quick

Threads like this one make me so look forward to when we properly start home edding

Just home school them :)
you don't need school to socialise

I would be useless at homeschooling. I don't have the patience, or the discipline. We would just get up late every day and potter around not getting any learning done. Plus the kids are more sociable than I am and need the interaction with others that school gives them. I would have loved the opportunity to take them out of school for a term or two to go travelling, though.

I am going to miss them as well.

I love having no real routine and the late mornings.

I took a week off and went back to work this evening. It was quite nice to get back to work but it was lovely having a week of lie ins and being with the children.

Oh right, I must be an awful mum because I've almost been counting down the days . The first week was fine, last week I wanted to bash myself on the head with large objects regularly. Just at each other's god damn throats none stop bickering, he said she said, shouting and screaming. Oh the noise levels.

The only things I do like about the holidays really are the later mornings, no rush, no forced breakfast time but that's what the weekends for. Fucking dreading the summer hols. I'm a single mum with three of them 6 and under so maybe that's skewing my perception.

Do you work? I don't think it's great feeling like this tbh. It's not good to rely on anyone so much for happiness, and particularly children will be able to pick up if your well-being/self-esteem is linked to them.

I love the holidays too. There's so much more time to do things we like as a family. Everyone relaxes and they get on particularly well most of the time

Homeschooling is very social

incandescant? really? its not healthy to miss having your kids around?? I actually think its very healthy to want to spend extended time with your children. They grow up very quickly. I worked for the majority of the easter holidays but was lucky enough to have DP at home with DD. It was just nice not to have to rush around getting ready for school etc. Although don't even get me started on fucking SATs revision waste of time

I'd love to home school, in fact i think my DD would benefit from it immensely but I'd be shit at it. Its bad enough to have to be big bad mummy who makes her do fucking SATS homework over the holidays, but to try and teach her full time? nooooooooooo

I'm sad too. The kids seem happy enough but I'm steeling myself for another term of school gate mum nonsense (shame that this is the worst thing about the school) and DS1's behaviour going downhill under all the pressure.

I don't think it's great feeling like this tbh. It's not good to rely on anyone so much for happiness, and particularly children will be able to pick up if your well-being/self-esteem is linked to them.

I don't think there is anything wrong with feeling like this at all, any more than there is anything wrong with feeling happy they are back so you get some peace and time to relax or no hassles about childcare.

Yeah, incandescent that was a bit daft. I don't think for anyone it's that our happiness relies on our DC, just that they make us happy! Not the same thing at all.
I'd bloody love to homeschool and am really seriously considering deferring DD for a year to see how we get on. I lurk around on the home ed board all the time! Keep going back and forth on it.

Our winter term hasn''t even finished! (Jewish school, so breaks up for Passover).

I hate the holidays, everything is a mess, there's no routine (children with asd), it's hideously expensive, and the stress levels in the house are off the scale. One went back today, the other two are back tomorrow and Wednesday. Thank fuck.

I miss mine. I get to pick dd up in 3/4 of an hour
When ds got up this morning and I realised it was axhool/nursery run I felt so sad.
Love having them at home, pottering around going for picnics and playing at home.
Hate being stressed and rushing around and going back to work :(
Also hate making packed lunches. That really sucks!

Gosh, the holidays drive me mad. No routine, children fighting, all wanting to do different things, having to stop their boredom turning into bad behaviour. They are so much happier and less wild during term time.

I'm always amazed at threads like this. But I guess a lot of posters on here have 2 children of a similar age, maybe same sex who enjoy similar things. But then there must be scores of people for whom school holidays are a nightmare due to working f/t in a non school based job.

But I guess a lot of posters on here have 2 children of a similar age, maybe same sex who enjoy similar things.

1. Different sexes (obviously 2 are the same!), aged 17 to 10.

Some people just like the freedom of the holidays. I'm not sure why you would always be amazed at threads like this - once maybe but surely then it was just clear that everyone is different :o

Maybe it's just that mine range from 13 down to 1yr. The 13&11yr olds are both boys but chalk and cheese. One would like to visit a museum the other climb a mountain! Neither of which is interesting or practical for a 5yr old with additional needs or an 18mth old who cannot be left alone for a second.

President you nailed it! That's what is so sad about it.

I have nothing against homeschooling, it just wouldn't work for us in our current situation.

incandescentalright
I didn't say I was bored or that I don't have a life outside my children, I just meant that I miss them. I do work, and even if I was sending everybody to boarding school (dogs included), I wouldn't have the time to do all the things I enjoy, let alone the ones I have to do. However, what's the point of having kids if you are not happy to spend time with them? That time is so short, too soon they will be leaving home and have their own life, so I really enjoy their childhood.

What procrastinator said. Holidays are stressful. The dc's trash the house and use each other as punchbags. They went back today and I'm having my first peace and quiet in over a fortnight.