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 🤔🤔

They learn to READ.

Not in one day they don't.

Yes thank you soup, but there are a number of very disparaging comments about what is typically covered in reception.

As I said earlier as a genuine one off this wouldn’t worry me but it is sad to see the work with the under 5s dismissed in this way.

Early years are the most important educationally. However it won’t matter as a one off

Oh IV done this a few times over the years, didn't hinder my children's study ethics or prevent them getting into good universities. Don't beat yourself up over it, as long as you had a lovely day together then absolutely no harm.

My mum did this when we were kids not all the time but a few occasions, I remember them days with fondness, I did it occasionally with my DS18 and we discussed school the other day and he never bunked off Or pretended to be sick so really appreciated those days. In had my first 2 days off work in nearly 4 yrs this week and DS18 hasn't missed a day off
College or work in 2 yrs. it will be fine enjoy.

Don't worry about it, OP. What's done is done, and the world is still turning

You slept till 9am with a 5yr old & a younger child in the house?? Weren't they awake?? What were they doing while you slept upstairs?? You should definitely have got the 5yr old to school & apologised for lateness.

Get a grip people!! Their education will not be damaged by missing one day of school in reception 🙄 my son had a week off last week..... (genuinely ill be had a very bad dose of tonsillitis) after reading these comments I'm wondering whether I should be booking him in for private tutoring to catch up on everything he missed.

The responses to this are just HILARIOUS.
OP you did nothing wrong and sometimes a little deviation from routine is no harm.

As long as the reason you slept in wasn't because of alcohol or because you were feeling lonely and wanted to use them for company, then a once off is OK.
But generally speaking consistency in parenting is the best way to go.
Children get mixed messages if the parent starts manipulating the kid's schedule to suit themselves or to manage the parent's own moods.

Nope , never done it as my alarm doesn’t need setting every night , it’s on a schedule like most smart phones .

@wishing4sun oh the irony

Your kids are only young and it won't matter as a one-off.

However you ought to have a sensible think about why this happened. Most people who wake up at a specific time each day, tend to stir around that time, with or without an alarm clock, unless they are particularly tired or sleepy. You should consider what happened last night that meant all of you were so tired this morning that none of you woke up at the normal time. Did you stay up too late last night, are you habitually tired from a cumulative lack of sleep, were you drinking/taking drugs, or do you need to check the CO levels in your house? Only you know which, if any, of those situations it might be.

You would be very unreasonable to ever let it happen again though.

Gosh I would have missed alot more school if i had have relied on my dm to take me who would lay in bed every morning while me and my siblings got our own breakfast then walked selves to school. How times have changed... I infact used to being her a hot drink up every morning before I left...

As long as you don't make it a habit or think it's ok to do every time you're up late/can't be bothered then it's fine.

One of my biggest regrets are that I didn't keep DD off for a random day here and there while we still could.

The OP is not BU.

It obviously doesn't matter to her to have a job to which she should turn up at a particular time, so why should her children think that time-keeping is important?

I just need to know how OP gets a reception aged child and a nursery aged child to lie in until 9am! That’s the holy grail, surely.

I did this in the nursery days but not school

Honestly as long as its not a regular occurrence fuck it... a wee day off wont do them any harm
Honestly dont worry about it.

FFS can posters stop being so disparaging about what they learn at 5?

They learn to READ.

My DS didn't learn until he was 6. In fact, in school the teachers would rather they didn't before.
He is a good student and learns well. Could have better grades, but that's a different discussion.

Early reading (before 6) is not necessarily better, and can be worse for some children. Eventually they all learn.

You are not based in the uk, lweji

I am not debating the merits or otherwise of early reading. I am saying reception covers important aspects of learning.

eventually, they all learn

No, they don’t.

YANBU for giving a 5-year-old and a nursery-age kid a day off. YABU for coming to AIBU just seeking validation and flouncing when the majority disagree with you.

Yes, so could I. It doesn’t mean that reception is some sort of year where no learning takes place!

Yes they do. But not on a single day. That's the point.

But many Reception kids will still catch up only in year 1.

DS attended Reception in the UK, btw.
Then here he still had to go to pre-school, then year 1.
He wouldn't have read properly until year 2 in the UK, probably.

It's not what is taught, it's about children's development.

But my argument is that Reception is not a crucial year by any means.