Woke up late so gave kids a day off

[queenjolo29]

I'm feeling kinda guilty not sure why has they are my children after all, but i forgot to set my alarm last night, didn't wake up till 9 which I might add never happens at the weekend lol. So I thought fuck it give kids a day off.. Please tell me I am not the only one who has done this. They don't have days off unless ill but that's rare. I feel strangely guilty 🤔🤔

@memberofseven

I told ds he had a temperature and felt too warm to go to school and that's exactly what he said to his teacher when she asked how he was. "I had a temperature and felt too warm to go to school".

No doubt I will be warmly roasted for that too. We actually went to Legoland. No queues. It was great 👍🏻

This is exactly why we have to put up with attendance officers being total arseholes to us when our kids are ill.
It's also what social services deem neglect as you didn't prioritise getting your kids into school and don't give a shit.
You know they may tell the teachers "mum didn't get out of bed so we stayed off"

Some people really need to lighten up and enjoy life a bit more, stop taking everything so seriously. It will all be over shortly.

You clearly don't feel guilty so why ask.

I think there are a lot of holier than though attitudes on here lol.
Enjoy a fun day with your babies. And don't make a habit of it. I did the odd random day off with my children and they all turned out very well rounded individuals with perfectly good work ethics.

Lilmishap, why don't you ring SS about a 5 year old missing one day of school and see what they say?

I do partly agree with you former but the problem is the children belonging to the latter are more likely to be at a disadvantage.

I’m with you op sorry, but my kids school makes you feel like absolute shit if you’re late, I often joke to my sister that they would rather you not come in than be late. I have done this before aswell op, if you come in late and say you overslept you are judged harshly so I just said they were ill.

It's also what social services deem neglect

I doubt after one absence, social services will be called ffs. Infact I can say without a doubt in my mind, they will not be called.

Munchausan by proxy. Dangerous.

To be clear I don't think op is scum, it just pissed me off as I have a right battleaxe Attendance officer who keeps implying I 'let' my son take time off school or can't 'manage' getting him in.
He has a shitty immune system after lots of surgery last year and I've had to send him in when he's been fucking miserable.

So my post was likely sour grapes. Soz

As a kid, I would have hated going in late, so I don't think my mum would have made me go in either.

Having said that, I set my own alarm from as soon as I started primary school, so it never would have happened - it was a really cool alarm clock and I took pride in setting it (being helped to, at first) at night. It was a bunny, and his eyes opened when it was okay for me to get up, and then if I hadn't turned him off by a certain time, the alarm went off. Stopped me getting up stupidly early!

But on a practical note, why not set an alarm on your phone? You don't have to remember to set it every night then - you can just set it to go off every MTWTF each week without having to touch it again. It saves forgetting! :)

Obviously SS wouldn’t be interested in one day.

However, it does generally go with as I said above a somewhat chaotic family life.

Munchausan by proxy. Dangerous.

Er, what?!

Doesn't exactly set the best example to kids so I think yabu. Sorry

However, it does generally go with as I said above a somewhat chaotic family life.

Wow, that's some extrapolation right there! Where has the OP suggested she has an even remotely chaotic family?!

@Poetryinaction Hahaha WOW.

Do you even have any proper knowledge of what that condition is? There is a little difference (actually, MASSIVE) between saying the child was unwell to get one day off school as a result of accidental oversleeping, when compared to the truly devastating consequences of munchausan's. So come on, don't be so bloody silly.

Meh i couldn't get upset about this.

Hope you're having a good day OP

@queenjolo29 I'm sure you work hard at your job to support your kids and provide for them all year round so enjoy this day off to snuggle up to them.

I agree that in isolation, this is harmless, but all life experiences combine to create an individual's work ethic in adulthood, so I think YWBU. You wouldn't take the whole day off work, just because you were going to arrive late. There's no other way to put it than the OP being lazy.

I wonder how many of those who are having a go at you have taken their kids on term time holidays 🤣

@lilmishap

You shouldn't take it so seriously. Fuck the attendance officer. You are your child's mum. Don't let another adult bully you into doing something with your child that you feel is harmful to them. You should complain about her/him. Hope he gets better soon.

Enjoy your day off with them!

It'll do them no harm and an extra day together.

My son is 8 and I take him out of school early May or June to go on summer holidays! I don't feel one bit guilty about that he does well all year round and a week or two sun with his parents is beneficial compared to the winding down of the school year.

Ps we don't live in the UK so don't need to ask permission or whatever do to this :)

At the ages of 5 and nursery I wouldn’t worry.
Enjoy the day

YABU. Incredibly irresponsible and a terrible life lesson for the children. I don’t care how old they are, just go to school and apologise for your lateness.