Stop holding my hand, I'm an adult!

[2017ReasonsToMoan]

Text from school to parents:

"Don't forget school reopens Thursday 5th January at 0845"

Is it any wonder adults are behaving more and more like children when responsibilities are not expected of them?

We get the holiday list. The weekly reminders in the newsletter. Now a text in the middle of my holiday.

If I'm so irresponsible to need this, you can bet your ass I'll have forgotten again by Thursday. Why bother?

Ahhh.

That felt good.

I'm going to call it.

The majority on this thread are giving excuses for being (or their friend being) a bit disorganised instead of trying to better themselves, improve on these skills and grow up. To set a good example for their children. The texts are a safety net and they remove the need to be responsible in this area.

We are becoming a nation of adult children. Sigh.

Our school said they're going back in Wednesday the 5th January
Which day do you think I send them then?

PhilODox funny anecdote but a red herring

I'm well organised OP, I don't bother to tell people this because, why would I?

How much more administration would it have been for you to open the text, read it and tut - and delete it? Certainly less than starting a thread to be a bit of a whining twat.

Good for you

I'm very organised. I've already filled in my calender for this year. After sitting with my old calendar to copy dates, my sports fixtures list, my reminder cards for dental appts etc, my uni page web open and 3 further tabs for the 3 different schools I have to keep up with (one of which wasn't working so I couldn't access any the dates and it's a high school so we actually get very little correspondence or reminders). But i appreciate the reminders! Despite being organised I'm still human, some people have kids whose nurseries/schools go back on different days and sometimes schools don't list everry single pd day on the calendar so it's not filled in (I.e. I have no idea about September's pd days yet and may gasp forget to write them on the calender when I find out.

Yeah- but I need to know which day to send them!

OMG - that is SO totes awful. Imagine the school having the initiative to ensure that parents have the correct information about term dates to hand in a number of formats.

It is almost like they are imposing their scheduling agendas on busy parents during a holiday - the horror!!

It is almost likeep they know.that holiday's knock routine out and reminders like this can be useful. The condescending fascists!

Seriously OP, YABU.

Op I can't help but think your just playing around. I think this is just a wind up type thread.

I'm going to call it.

The majority on this thread are giving excuses for being (or their friend being) a bit disorganised instead of trying to better themselves, improve on these skills and grow up. To set a good example for their children. The texts are a safety net and they remove the need to be responsible in this area.

We are becoming a nation of adult children. Sigh.

I think you're vastly overestimating the effect a reminder text has on society.

All the pp getting worked up over a light hearted rant. That is what I don't get. And I'm not a twat per se... I just had a twatty thought and purged it online instead of in real life.

I like these reminders.
I am not a adult-child thanks
I work and am a carer for my disabled OH and disabled DS as well as having two younger ones at home.
I am very organised. You have to be if you have disabled child. I somehow managed to negotiate my adult-child self through two years of chemo and care with my DD too...fancy that!

However, I have a lot of stuff to remember. Loads of appointments and responsibilities. I work with parents who are also juggling a TON of stuff and I am very careful about letting them have confirmations of appointments etc. Because I understand how easy it is for things to 'drop off the edge'

Thank God for schools and other agencies that recognise that families have more than one thing to deal with. Particularly at this time of year when I have to check my phone just to tell what day it is.

But yeah, well done OP for being so super.

ghostspirit It kind of is - definitely it is lighthearted. Such an inconsequential topic - just wanted a rant as I found it a bit odd to receive a text in the middle of the holiday.

Oh come off it.
Your last post on this 4 page thread wasn't a light hearted rant. It was extremely judgmental of people who are not you.

Well, it would have been better to use your 'light-hearted' rant and actually be funny and amusing - rather than to take side-swipes at posters in a not at all 'light hearted' way. Check your delivery maybe?

I'm going to call it.

The majority on this thread are giving excuses for being (or their friend being) a bit disorganised instead of trying to better themselves, improve on these skills and grow up. To set a good example for their children. The texts are a safety net and they remove the need to be responsible in this area.

We are becoming a nation of adult children. Sigh.

Yeah, this is absolutely lighthearted.

Finding train arrivals announcements annoying is really quite quite bonkers op

name of would not call it light hearted either. But I do think it's a wind up thread.

OP, you forgot to put lighthearted, hence the hoicking.

YANBU.

Whenever us staff pitch up for Inset day you can guarantee there will always be half a dozen kids turn up, thinking it's the first day of the new term. This is despite dates on the website, in planners, newsletters and texts home.

I get how irritating the reminders are to organised parents though.

People have left messages on our school Facebook page asking what day the kids go back. It's not unusual. We both work full time so inset days have to be diaries and planned for weeks in advance (no holiday clubs those days) but it's common for Sahp to query the dates as they don't have to be so regimented about childcare.
The Christmas break everyone seems to lose track of what day of the week it is anyway, me included.

I'm really glad our school texts us updates,my head's a sieve!

Ah yeah totes hilaire

definitely it is lighthearted

writing lighthearted doesn't give you a free range for being a judgmental bore.

And no, I don't need to give you excuses for being disorganised. I am not. I just accept the fact that some other parents might be, that the school staff might not always be the most efficient in the world, mistakes happen so a reminder confirming info is welcome.

I am now waiting for the thread to be removed to protect the OP's "privacy".

Actually having started playing on this site, I think I agree entirely and would go further. We are growing a chippy, entitled society that thinks every minor ailment needs hospital admission or a myriad of tests, that every child is either gifted or has SEN, that very unpleasant comment is bullying or abuse and that all conflict is best dealt with through angry confrontation. Every person posting seems to 'have anxiety' like that is an excuse for anything. We've lost our sense of proportionality. We can no longer laugh at ourselves or our partners and children's failings. We expect medical attention instantly and yet are incredibly dismissive of the knowledge and skills of doctors. We don't know how lucky we are. I blame the Daily Mail.

I am not stupid nor am I disorganised, I am also not smug and I do try not to read all sorts of nonsence into tiny little things.

Text reminders can be very helpful if a school doesn't send out term timetables they can be helpful if the schools have different dates to the standard LA dates.

On my LA website it says this coming term starts on the 3rd of jan yet I have a few kids starting back on the 9th on on the 12th one on the 16th but only one going back this week (6th) the one going this week is one of only 4 kids in the entire school (each class has 4 children in) going on that day the rest start on the following Monday at 11am.

The way the school comunicate home - school communications are by twice weekly phone calls one at the begining of the week to find out how child has been and any relevant issues the other is at the end to say how child has been in school most important information is given during those calls inc dates.
A phone call or a text or an email is just comunication and is no different to a mass letter for information exchange