To find it amusing the lengths some parents will go to in order to be apart from their kids?

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Just that really. My employer has given us permission to work from home to reduce the amount of people on site in order to reduce risk of contracting COVID-19.

However there are some parents in my office who are STILL coming to work just so they don't have to deal with their kids. I just find it wild.

Someone actually said today they couldn't care less about contracting the virus, they just don't want to be at home.

It makes me wonder what the point of having kids for some people is if they will go to such lengths to avoid spending time with them.

I'm a single parent. Also a key worker who needs to work. I have the option of doing some work from home but not all, I would still need to go in for parts of my role. DC has a place at school from Monday.
I'm doubting I'm doing the right thing.

My niece is a Key Worker & has finished her day at school in tears after the amount of abuse she has been given by parents who are not Key Workers but don’t want to look after their children at home. And then, as her own daughter has just started Senior school, she is unable to go to the Primary where her Mum will spend the next few months (with her shifts covering the whole Easter & half term breaks).

She’s proud to step up & look after the kids of other Key Workers. She wonders why those who can work from home but don’t want to look after their own children in these extraordinary times ever had children in the first place.

I got a call from the school today asking me why I'd not filled the keyworker form in.

I work for the council, my ex is a policeman. Apparently we both qualify, but he doesn't live local and I'm working from home.

So I said thanks for getting in touch but that space can be used for a family who actually need it. Head of Year sounded relieved to be honest.

Well how nice for you to find it amusing. Ever wondered whether there just might be a reason those parents would rather be at work? Personally, I'd rather be at work than at home with my kids and unable to go out - but that's because at work people almost never throw things at me, hit me, break my stuff or call me a stupid fucking bitch - whereas at home those things happen multiple times a day.

I am my children's only parent, and both have emotional and behavioural difficulties caused by their early experiences - they are adopted. They behave beautifully at school, and appallingly at home, and with the grandparents having to isolate there's only me to take the literal and metaphorical hit. Would you find it so amusing if I were facing the prospect of being stuck in the house for months with a violent partner, rather than children?

You have no idea what goes on behind closed doors, I often make wry comments at work about how horrible my children are and how I'd rather come to work, but it's taken as a joke, none of my colleagues know what my home life is actually like. Still, you enjoy yourself with your judging dressed up as amusement.

I'm 19, I don't care to explain myself to anyone. I worked at home throughout year 12 with a baby. It was hard.

Still not an excuse to not realise how difficult kids are. There's no excuse to be honest, it's clear. And that's if they have no additional needs, when they have additional needs, it can be even worse. Again, that's something you should be aware of before you have kids.

And again, considering it's a choice between saving lives or killing people, there's no reason to complain about it. It will be a few shit months. If you want to make it years, go ahead and be stupid. Send them outside and don't stick to social distancing. Then we will never get out of this mess and you can look forward to worse for longer.

nothingcomestonothing sometimes people like the OP don't have the empthy (or the brain) to think of others outside of their bubble. In their world having children with behavioural issues would never happen to them. I wish you luck in the coming months and years.

I knew you aren't a parent.

I love being home with my kids. I also like working from home. Not sure how I’m expected to now work full time from home while simultaneously educating them though. This will be interesting!

@TooGood2BeTrue i always found that weird. It says for parents to parents, like why are you even here then?! Go to reddit or something.

Why on gods earth would you want to put your children at risk and send them to school during this crisis. School is the worst place they can be and they will be at highest risk. Everyday they will be children from different home and settings who have mixed with different people all bringing different germs to the same place.

Schools are now a child care facility only and are a LAST resort for families who have exhausted every other option but are needed to physically be in work to keep the country moving.

The teachers and support staff are putting themselves and their own families at risk to help keep critical workers in the most critical positions.

Of course it’s hard, or course it’s a nightmare having your children at home 24/7 for 12weeks or more. We are crisis - it’s not supposed to be easy. You manage, you do half a job, you juggle what you can but you keep your children home and safe .

Christ people are missing the point!

Because until you have kids you do not realise how hard it is.

Borrow someone's kids and try and do your job whilst 'home schooling'

Try entertaining said kids for 7 hours a day whilst you do your job to a high standard

What a nasty goading thread. Since you are not a parent I say it disqualifies you from making nasty comments. Some children are hard work. Some partners are too. That’s not an admission btw, mine are great . Don’t be to quick to judge judgey pants.

Too not to. Gah

So some people think we shouldn't be judging someone who apparently said "they couldn't care less about contracting the virus, they just don't want to be at home." Wow, that's shocking! They're putting peoples lives at risk but childless people should stop judging right?

Depends on the age of the kids, it’s even more amusing to see the length teenagers would go to in order to get rid of their parents.

Yes, as a parent I may make silly jokes about being stuck at home with my children but I know this is no joking matter. I am very lucky as I have always been able to work from home , but it’s not so easy for everyone.

Maybe a good thing that will happen as a result of all of this is that childminders, nannies, and teachers of young children will be given more respect and higher pay? Because they are indispensable.

(Wakes from dream, slaps self).

I’ve considered it and concluded you’re a bit of a goady fucker to be honest.

But teachers are going to have to leave their own kids at home, or send them to their own schools, so that they can look after other people’s kids, some of who just don’t need to be there!! How is that right???

If you have legitimate needs, send them. Of course you should send them, and schools will welcome them and look after them and never let them know that there is an issue.

But if you don’t need to send them, don’t fucking send them, because you are sending your own kids to mix unnecessarily and you are putting them and the other kids and the staff at risk.

I guarantee, most teachers don’t actually WANT to be there. They want to be cocooning their families against this virus which is KILLING people, but instead they know every day they are potentially taking it home with them.

God cornonavirus is like manna from heaven to the goady fuckers on here these days

Bit like most nurses and doctors then?

Stop being so bloody dramatic. Most teachers will be asked to volunteer first. Support staff are stepping forward. In Academies, secondary teachers and support staff are stepping forward to help the primary schools. Fgs wait and see before you start saying your kids are being thrown to the wolves.

Yeah well, I'm going to be stuck at home with two hormonal teenagers, one of whom is autistic and screams and swears at me all day long. She also hurts her sister. But hell yes, of course I'm looking forward to months of being cooped up with them .

You have no idea of people's circumstances OP - you are not a parent and are very judgy. I invite you cordially to come and spend a week with my kids, cooped up in the house, and then you tell me why I'd rather be at work with my kids at school. I love them to bits, but it's going to be hell on earth.

Surely there is a difference between "I can't stand the sight of the little blighters" and "I don't see how I could possibly do a good job and live up to my employer's expectations of me if I simultaneously have to do the job of their nursery worker/teacher"? Am totally in awe of my colleagues who are now having to provide home education at the same time as working overtime to set up offices at home and transform all their working practices to a totally new format for an employer who is going to expect results.

Well I started working from home when my dd was a teenager and fine, but I honestly don't know how people manage to work and look after younger children at the same time, it would drive me up the wall.

I'm not a parent.

Says it all.

'Why on gods earth would you want to put your children at risk and send them to school during this crisis.'

At risk of what? Children barely notice they have it.