"Doing quarantine better than you"

[emkana]

Even if a situation like this people manage it...
Fb pics of children adoring homeschooling... craft in the garden... blah blah

Or people posting their fabulous schedule of yoga at 6 am followed by a light breakfast then a bit of work blah blah...

I'm just proud not to be drinking before 5!!

Come along now, 'aven't you lot got homes to be locked up in? Move along now, nuthin' to see 'ere.

For people who are struggling it can be hard to see it that way though.

I think the mental health impact of all of this is going to be huge.

IG showing off re this should be on PM’s banned list.

I'm nailing quarantine!! I absolutely love it. I am an introvert though and love being at home.
I've been 60% sat on my arse watching TV whilst dealing with work emails, 40% doing home chores. I've done some gardening, baked my first loaf of bread when we ran out, cleaned the house.
The kids have been studying by themselves in between playing in the garden.

I feel like it's the perfect time to not be too busy and running around for a change.

We’ve actually had a lovely week despite my boyfriend unexpectedly living here from last Saturday and being trapped in a fairly small flat with a four year old.

But I’m well aware that it will go tits up and we’ll be getting on each others nerves fairly soon.

I could live with ‘performance quarantine’ posts. I deleted the Facebook app from my phone because the majority of posts on my feed were ‘why it’s so much worse than you think and the government is doing it all wrong and we’re all doooomed’.

Oh god yes. I've had to mute my DS's class WhatsApp group as I felt really inadequate. I had to remind myself that those posting these detailed schedules and replica classrooms are SAHP where as I'm still trying to work full-time and educate a small child.

I saw such posts on fb and felt a bit of a failure and decided i would be better not looking at them.

I had been, up to the fb point fairly pleased the kids did school work for an hour and a half and i worked for two and a half.
then kids got silly acting about ten years younger than actual age and I had to take them on a walk to a quiet place, before me and my neighbours (in a terrace so noise travels both sides) went insane from my hyper kids.

Thank goodness we can still go to quiet place for a walk.

Well let's see. My youngest did about 30 minutes of homework, my eldest didn't do anything apart from messing about I'm her iPad. They haven't been too bad bickering wise but we're on week 3 now!
Could have easily has a drink at about 11 but pregnant so got a few months before I can enjoy one. I have a feeling my husband will be driving me mad too as he's just been told his work is closing.

My dc told me quite clearly that their teacher was better than me today. I put that on FB. We should be FB friends op, I tell it like it is.

We did yoga. Then the dc thumped each other whilst yelling namaste. Then we did some colouring in. They both wanted the same colour crayon. More thumping each other. Then dh decided he'd just put pants on dd (21 months old) rather than a nappy so she pee'd on the carpet, before getting rather upset and standing in it yelling "help me". Because I thought she was crying because ds had thumped her, I also stood in it, barefoot.

Things went downhill from that point forward. Needless to say I don't post on facebook.

Well we tried to paint a rainbow, the baby just tried to eat the paint and my teenager painted the baby’s head blue 🥳

Then the dc thumped each other whilst yelling namaste 😂🤣😂

Everyone on our (recently moved to) Street is gardening like fury!! Sharing compost (while maintaining distances) sharing pics of their carefully nurtured seedlings sitting proudly out in borders

It's still early enough for frost to kill all their work though! I set myself up outside the other day will the various pots, decided which were empty them began to plant stuff. I suddenly realised that I wouldn't normally do this mid March, so I stopped.

I downloaded a yoga app and watched tv all day

Yesterday afternoon, I was supposed to be catching up on work emails while simultaneously entertaining the kids with fun, age appropriate, educational activities. (My partner was downstairs cleaning after the cats and sorting out dinner.)

Instead, I spent an hour lying on the bed while my 3-year-old and 1-year-old took turns to jump on me, which they were finding hilarious. Time well spent.

DD2 got up at 5.45am so did everyone else in the household (it’s Bin day and the sun was almost getting up so it’s still f*ing early)
DD2 did 3hrs of school work (reading eggs, maths, spelling and grammar work books and read me a book),
It’s middle of the school year here so we are meant to continue with school as normal-ish, we are expected to get our kids to use google classroom)
They are now doing cosmic kids yoga as it’s drizzling (and I want a peaceful coffee)

Cosmic yoga is a really annoyingly over enthusiastic woman with a love of onesie and terrible computer graphics who does kids yoga on YouTube while telling a story with yoga pose actions.
It’s 11 minutes of almost peace.

I have cousins and friends who post this shit. I just roll my eyes and move on.

Makes me glad my facebook feed is mostly full of muddy dogs, DIY projects and cat videos.

I can’t be doing with it all! My kids will do the work school has set but they can do it in their own time and won’t have a strict timetable; they can chill, watch films, play games, make lego, help around the house, practise their instruments etc. Luckily they are very self motivated and want to complete their school work too. I think some people have completely unrealistic expectations of how much concentration their kids will have in a day. Both DH and I are qualified teachers so o have no worry about helping them with their work.

It's 5.45 here now, feels like the middle of the night to me.

Yep. DD's have done basically nothing for a week as I've been working and busier than normal... we've done our hours dog walk a day and that's it. House in a right state. No yoga. No PE with bloody Joe Wicks (who whilst I admit is doing a great thing could be slightly less self congratulatory about it), no decorating, no nothing. In fact dd2 Has not really been dressed in anything but PJ's throughout..
Lots of friends Pics of their home classrooms and bakes and what not. Makes me feel inadequate. But doesn't bother me enough to make me change anything really. Whilst DD's are ok and I'm still working, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Feels like that everyday to me too.

Sadly she’s a 3 year old human alarm clock who has a need for a sunrise poo o’clock. Who uses the toilet while singing and yelling a running commentary to me about what she’s doing. (While touching everything cause she’s the only one up)
At that time a day I wish we hadn’t taught her to talk

Ours went to shit around lunchtime yesterday and vaguely recovered after a block of school approved maths and spellings games on the tablet.

Right now I’m very pleased that they’re all asleep still...ignoring the fact that the four year old had me up from 4.30-5.45am because he doesn’t feel great chickenpox from his brother most likely

I’m suspicious of anyone who views other people’s positivity as some kind of attack on themselves. The world doesn’t revolve around me, if a friend posts her baking with the kids it isn’t about me.
The positive people tend to recognise that peace of mind comes from working at it, every day. I like to see that.