To not do the at home camp for beavers

[Fragglerock10]

The nice bit of me is thinking I am being a complete grump but I feel so stressed
On top of school work for our 6 year old we also have activities to do from youth group, drama and beavers.
Drama want us to do mini films and put them on their website and they are giving out certificates. youth group want us to film us doing various activities. Beavers want us to complete badges, a few weeks ago we did a at home campfire on zoom.

Today beavers want us to do an at home camp. Except our tent is too big for our garden so they want us to make one out of sheets in our front room. They want us to zoom with the pack leader and others for a few hours singing songs and doing activities etc. Then we are supposed to all sleep in make shift tent.
It want to shout “enough”. In between us both working full time, home schooling plus normal parenting trying to fit in everything else. I am knackered after a week of night shifts, DH is knackered after working from home and looking after DS most of the time. I just don’t have the bloody energy. DS won’t sleep well downstairs

The final straw is Tic-tac putting a post on social media saying we need all the beavers taking part and not to be lazy

[Applesandpears23]

Our rainbows group suggest stuff to do each week. If I fancy it I show it to my daughter. If I don’t I don’t mention it. When things are really busy I don’t even read the messages. You don’t need to do everything or read everything.

[ClaraEccles]

@FurloughedFedUp

"Some bright spark of a parent (on furlough no doubt) came up with the idea"

Please stop suggesting that all parents on furlough are skipping through the daisies with time on their hands to do crafts, bake scones and find creative ways to keep their children occupied because we obviously don't have any other way of filling our days.

Many of us are counting every penny, worrying every day about our jobs, juggling 'home school', housework, shopping, supporting elderly family members and are equally stressed but in different ways.

I don't need the digs at furloughed parents thanks.

I didn’t suggest for a minute all parents on furlough are skipping through daisies with time on their hands to do crafts, bake scones and find creative ways to keep their children occupied.

But all the ones I know are.
Many of us are counting every penny, worrying every day about our jobs, juggling 'home school', housework, shopping, supporting elderly family members and are equally stressed but in different ways

And many people are doing all that... and working full time on top 🤷🏼‍♀️

[FurloughedFedUp]

@ClaraEccles I wasn't suggesting for a minute that many, many parents aren't doing all of that whilst working full time. There are also a lot of parents that do it all the time - not just during Covid-19/lockdown.

My point was that 'furloughed' seems to be an easy dig at the moment; and when you're already feeling shit about not working and worried about the future you don't need other people telling you what an easy life you're (supposedly) having.

That 'bright spark' that made a suggestion could be someone that doesn't usually work for whatever reason, someone that felt that maybe they needed to contribute as they don't normally have time, is always the parent to put their hand up despite having a million other things to do, or just someone that had a few minutes of breathing space to post an idea.

You may know lots of people having a wonderful time of furlough but trust me, lots of people aren't.

[LittlemissAWOL]

We did one recently with our DC and honestly they absolutely loved it. They took part in most activities but not all the DC did some just built the camp and that was it. It's not much to build a little camp and it doesn't even need to be in the living room it could be in their bedroom and they could do it themselves.