I REALLY hate the school run

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For some reason, I looked forward to it Pre Dd and imagined it would be *Fun..wtf 🙈
I hate the rushed, stressy mornings, i’m organised but getting Dd ready can be hard at times. Drop off isn’t *As bad, quick kiss and hug at the outside door bit, it’s the pick up I don’t like. I wait in my car until the last minute when the door opens, then rush up, can’t stand the awkward standing waiting around everyone does. I hate if the teacher comes over to me and wondering what she wants to say to me. I just want to get my child and go home. Sometimes when I think how many years left I have to do this for, day in, day out, I feel panicked
Anyone else, or am I just a proper weirdo?

I hated it to so luckily I went back to work full time

@AssertiveGertrude But don’t you still have to do it? I drop then rush to work

I loathed it especially the pick up in the afternoon. Once DS was a bit older I’d wait on a bench down the road and he’d run down to me. All that hanging around with people talking shite-no ta. A quick getaway every time

I absolutely hated it. The Mums at the school gate could be clicky and unfriendly.

If you don’t wait in your car until the last minute, you might find that you get chatting to people. I don’t have many close friends in my children’s classes, but I give a smile to anyone who makes eye contact and sometimes that develops into a chat.

That’s the worst part, the awkward shuffling around everyone does outside, I just rush up a few seconds later 😅doesn’t seem too many cliquey mums, but my mum friends as it were, and other friends are outside school. I just hate the repetition and whole process of it.
The only, singular part I like is seeing Dds excited face and her running up to me..this is often interrupted by the teacher though somehow 🙈

I always find these threads really weird - I went and stood on the playground and picked my children up. Exchanged a few glances with a couple of mums and ended up chatting. Ten years later sometimes see them in Sainsbury’s and say hi. Friends with some who my kids who are still friends with

@pasbeaucoupdegendarme I’m a friendly person and say hi/talk and give smiles etc, I just really cba with it all 😬

@Duvetdweller It’s not about the other mums, they’re lovely and I see them at parties etc, all is good. It’s just the whole process of the school run, day in, day out

I think that’s a bit sad, tbh. It’s nice to have at least a bit of a network with your children’s friends. Makes the inevitable shit soft play parties more bearable, for one thing!

Were you more of a Jessica or an Elizabeth, OP?

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I’m sort of with you!
I don’t actually have to do it anymore and I’m only relieved because it used to piss it down at 3:15 regularly after the whole day of being dry 😂
Didn’t really speak to anyone but just waited a couple of minutes for my kids and went home. Just a total non event.

No I feel privileged to be able to do it tbh. Love seeing dd’s little face excited to see me. The rest of it is neither here nor there

Ours do a “soft start” where they just head into school between 8.45 and 9- they don’t line up or anything. So the drop off is fine. But the pick up always feels chaotic!

@pasbeaucoupdegendarme I do, as I said above..the majority of my Dds friends and their mums (my friends) are all at different schools, but I know these ones (Dd only started in September) and they’re great, it’s just the whole process of the morning rush, then to work, the afternoon pick up when I just want to go home etc

I was going to say YABU but this really resonates with me, it’s SO monotonous isn’t it? I love the days mine go the breakfast and after school club mainly for the lack of school run, not because I don’t want to spend time with them.

Well it is repetitive and tedious. And so much shite to remember.

The kids are great but I see them loads.

How strange. Can't you just say Hello to some of the mums and go. I used to walk to school to pick up my children and very often chat to other mothers on the way and back.

@CalmDownBoris72 That’s it! Can’t believe I was excited about it 😅

@unlikelychump Exactly..I had no idea that every week, there would be something to sign, something to bring in, so many emails and WhatsApp’s

@toomanyleggings Yes, that’s the good part that I focus on

@eddiemairswife I do

@Lolaandbehold 😅A combination of the two I think 🤔 but definitely wanted and aspired to be more of a Jessica

I felt a bit like this. Then lockdown 2020 hit and I realised how much I missed the small talk and the short walk and micro interactions daily. Lockdown 2021 was more misery as it was winter. So yes, YABU. I like the school run now, far better than the alternative. And it's not for that many years all told.

I hate the stressy mornings but i do enjoy chatting to other parents. Im also part of a pta and have an older kid so have been there a while. Im invested 😂