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 not trying to pretend I'm a key work etc - but some people don't realise how rubbish a parent they are until it's too late and you can't send them back.

Turns out I'm really good with babies, ok with toddlers and rubbish with primary school aged kids.

18 month gap between my first two. Third born 3 years later.

I'm now totally overwhelmed with the mental input required with three school aged kids.

I'm hanging on by a thread hoping that secondary aged kids will be better for me as they will want to talk to me less.

So the next month will be shit. But we all have to suck it up.

DH is key worker I'm not. I am set up to WFH and have been doing so for a week now. Our kids are older 10 and 12 and no trouble tbh. my dad said will you be sending them to school I was, huh? Erm no, I'm at home! But he's a key worker they said. I said no, I can work with them there, and I won't take a space from someone who needs it.

Bonkers thinking.

Some very touchy parents here! You are not BU, OP. I don't have children because I know they are a pain in the arse, I knew that in my early 20s though I hardly spent any time with them, and still don't.

This whole "but they're going to be in my house, where I live " things is ridiculous. They are your kids! Suck it up.

And younger, childfree women, take note. There's a reason they don't want them in their home.