To not want to send children to school when there’s a storm

[Bestofbothworlds19]

It’s rotten today where we live. Throwing it down with rain all night and this morning, set to continue all day. Winds are strong too, I can see one of the trees along our road has lost one of its branches (not a small one either) which has snapped into the pavement and is partly in the road. I then worry about anything like that happening close to us when walking to school. Fairly certain my youngest won’t even be able to hold her own in this wind anyway lol. I’m not talking about a typical windy rainy autumn day here, it’s far worse than that where we are. Would you keep your children off or not? (Mine are primary school age but question applies for any age really)

Isn't this the 3rd storm of this severity we've had already this autumn? I'm supposed to be flying later and fully expecting the plane to take off.

I think it is helpful. The OP is being utterly ridiculous and is in grave danger of passing that anxiety on to her children. Maybe a short sharp shock of pretty much every single response telling her this will help her to understand that she needs to seriously consider how she handles things. Sometimes the softly softly approach works. Sometimes giving your head a very rigorous wobble is needed.

Isn’t it half term? Mine have still got another week off. I will admit it’s very cold, wet and windy outside but if it was a school day mine would be going in, we have coats and umbrellas.

(Laughs uproariously in Cornish)

Yep. YABU.

(Don't ask about the wholesale panic that sets in when we get a couple of flakes of snow down here, mind you)

It’s the most helpful thing she can hear. She thinks some 50km gusts will blow her daughter away.

Seriously OP, get a grip. It’s not a hurricane.

You are going to raise ridiculously anxious, snowflake children with that attitude.

You are in danger of raising snowflakes - get them to school!

I think you are being over anxious, we are off for a day trip to France with no worries, I think kids will be fine going to school.

We have severe storms in New Zealand atm. Luckily for me not in my city. There are power cuts and roofs off houses etc.

It's half term

Pretty sure the school would have closed if it was so dangerous. I don’t think there’s a risk to life in any area of the country. Unless the OP actually lives in the US Midwest and is referring to a hurricane.

Not where I am, it’s not

You need to get help for your anxiety. Your DD isn’t going to blow away or get squashed by a tree.

I get that you're a worrier OP, and glad to hear that you are working on your anxiety. As people have said, its fine as long as the school is open. If you're not careful you run the risk of passing your anxiety on to your children, something which is perfectly normal like going out in stormy weather, will seem like a much bigger dangerous event if you keep them inside every time it happens. They will see danger where there is none, and in 20 years will be where you are with their own children. Also, I remember loving windy weather as a child - not the rain so much.

Not here it isn’t.

I'm a worrier too. I would drive my kids to school if I could, or keep a very firm hold on their hand on the walk if I couldn't. I'd also fret about them sitting in wet clothes all morning. And I'd be watching the local forums for fallen trees all morning.

I get the worrying. But it wouldn't enter my head not to send them to school. I hope they got in safely x

Honestly no because I still have to go to work.

I remember being in school during a mega storm - 1990 ish. A child was killed at another school but that was like a full blown hurricane. A regular storm - unless there was a red weather warning- I’d send in.

I’m already at work and my DC are already at school. I’m assuming they are anyway. I left at 7.30am to go to work and they usually leave at 7.40am as their walk is just over 2 miles. I’m assuming they will have taken their normal route so the chances are that they will arrive at school muddy and needing to change shoes as they will go through the cow fields and there are stiles. I do warn them when there is a flood warning as they walk along the river path on their journey. But they also have to contend with a motorway underpass which is actually more likely to flood to knee deep than the river path which just gets ankle deep/muddy. Then they really have to take their wellies.

I won’t see them or know if they made it to school under I get back at about 7pm.

Im sure they will be fine.

Keep them off until Spring. But then keep them home in summer due to heatwaves....

I went to school as usual the morning after the great storm of 1987.

I never once had a day off school because of snow. We weren’t such delicate snowflakes in those days. We did our best to carry on as usual. This is precisely how we are raising generations who believe that everything must shut down at the slightest adversity, not helped by the total and utter hysteria and panic of 2020.

Nor here - not till next week.

Take them in, it's all life experience and could be quite exciting walking in for them, the leaves falling like mad etc. Make a game of it!

Fairly certain my youngest won’t even be able to hold her own in this wind anyway lol.

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I was in Sussex in that storm - the schools in the worst hit area, where I was, were all shut. Spent the morning with my brothers photographing the damage.