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 🤔🤔

Can't be bothered to RTFT but if your young children slept in that late, they obviously needed the rest...you clearly needed it as well.

With all the viruses going around atm, I'd prefer to let everyone rest up for one day and go in refreshed tomorrow.

My DS (11) is off school with a temperature and a hacking cough today, his school and sports teams are petri dishes right now!

Mu mum used to do this every time it snowed. And we lived in Scotland

I can't believe how over the top some posters are being on this thread. It's one day and they're small children.

I remember a day when my mother's car wouldn't start. I expected her to ring a taxi to take us to school, but instead she said we could have the day off. The excitement was unreal. It's still one of my most favourite memories.

I manage to hold down a job where I don't think it's just okay not to turn up if my car doesn't start. There is a difference.

One of the doctors may be having cute snuggles with their DCs after forgetting the alarm, so appointments for 6 doctors are squashed into 5. Or even 4.

I didn't realise 5 year olds could be doctors ridiculous comparison there. Proving once again that MN is nuts sometimes.

@WhateverHappenedToMe

Who the heck needs an attendance award?! Unless your child has an exceptional immune system, the only way to earn them is to send an ill child to school to spread around their germs.

I don't know anyone whose child hasn't been ill at least once during the school year.

I'm sure if she was a doctor she would of got to work. She obviously had nowhere terribly important to be. Everyone has skived a day. Including me. If they are at school on a regular basis it's ok as a one of.

I'm most confused by how it's possible to sleep in till after 9 with a toddler and a 5 year old.

I know somebody whose parent used to always let her stay off over the least little thing. As an adult she became a serial sick taker and would stay off at a drop of the hat with lots of erratic time off and was late for work and had no work ethic. She almost lost her job and is hanging on by fine thread.. hopefully this is a one off op.

My DD( (14) was a amazing sleeper as a toddler, she could easily sleep a 10-12 hour stretch...it was lovely! Of course, she also gave up napping at 2 years old.

Then DS came along and reality hit.

Christ almighty, so much pearl clutching!
Ignore the completely over the top uptight judgement, OP. There's nothing wrong and everything right with giving routine the finger once in a blue moon. Yes, kids need to learn to take school seriously. But there is more to life. A lesson in fun, family, rest and the fact that when life doesn't go as planned, you can be laid back about it - just as important.

Enjoy your day.

I have done when I had one in reception and one at home. I can't do it anymore because 3 of them are in primary school and it will look suspicious if they are all off with the same " bug ".Also they would do my head in at home Ha . Hope you've had a lovely day OP

Did your children not wake up til 9 either? I can't really get my head around that part happening at any age.

Any age? Really? Wait till your teenagers are getting up for breakfast at 2pm in the afternoon!

@nokidshere

DD (14) managed 3 p.m. last Saturday. OK, she went skiing the evening before so was physically tired, but still! My DH wasn't impressed.

I think she only emerged at 3 because she was hungry and had a date that evening.

I hope all you perfect parents with your over the top outrage show the same disgust at your friends who take their children out of school before term ends to start holidays early. Or dare I even suggest, some of you have also taken your child out of school out of term times for a holiday...

Find it incredible that this happened at all ... but I think you should still have taken them in late.

Every day of their education matters and it's amazing how complacency and sickness creeps in and robs the most vulnerable of their life chances when you look back over the whole school time ...

Not the greatest start to school, if you’re already letting your 5 yo skive

On the one hand, it's no big deal.

Put with the fact your 12 year old isn't even at home overnight at the moment and that you've posted before about difficulties and issues - then I'd say it points to you possibly being an ineffectual parent who struggles to cope - and then that is a rather bigger deal

So, in isolation, no issue

With your history - posted on MN - it's an issue

A five year old? Enjoy your day together.

@WhateverHappenedToMe I hope you won't be complaining when your child gets D&V because a child and their over zealous and competitive parent wanted them to get the "attendance award"! Shit idea they are.

So much drama over a five year old having one day off. Hope you've enjoyed your day OP.

nokidshere I have teenagers. They've never slept until the afternoon unless there's been a reason - sleepover or party the previous night, up late the previous night because it's a weekend, or due to illness.

This wasn't a weekend though and children and teens have routines and go to bed earlier on school nights and wake up earlier.

My teens wouldn't oversleep by much on a school day because of inbuilt body clocks and inbuilt panic most people feel when they oversleep. At 5 they'd have been up before 7 whatever day it was. At nursery age I was still teaching them not to get up at 5am.

It being a Tuesday the OP's small children, who don't yet have an adolescent cycadian rhythms, will have been put to bed at the usual Monday school night time, so the fact some children sleep for twelve hours won't be causing them to sleep until 9, otherwise they'd be permanently sleep deprived on ordinary days when the alarm does go off at 7am or whatever their normal time is.

Five year old and nursery age. I wouldn't worry about it. In some countries children don't begin school until seven anyway. Have a lovely day with them.

Fuck me - so many cheerless, miserable holier-than-thou sheep posting on here, but it's good to see that they are at least in the minority by a fair way (though no doubt that fact won't prompt them to consider whether they might actually be wrong).

School is glorified child care anyway, especially at that age, and no they won't grow up to be slackers or deadbeats because of the odd day off school - the kids of pushy parents are far more likely to be the unhappy ones as adults.

I did it the other week. My primary school children were fine and don't seem to have fallen behind for the one day off!

I am probably bias though as didn't send my children to school until they were 7 and they weren't behind any of the kids. School is just glorified childcare at that age in my opinion.

This post is hilarious, some people are terribly uptight. I hope you have enjoyed your day OP.

My dc (aged 3-9) regularly lie in until 9am, they love their sleep.