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)

Don’t ever move to Scotland.

If I thought there was real danger from falling tree branches I wouldn't take them out.

You can't be serious @Bestofbothworlds19 ???

I've seen some excuses for not taking your kids to school but this one takes the cake. 😂

then you'll never leave the house. Winds, high tides, falling branches, floods. is your house on the very edge of the shoreline?

"Sorry boss, can't come in to work today because it's a bit wet and windy"

I wish i could do this.

That’s actually helpful. Either OP transmits her (misplaced) anxiety to her children, or not. Sometimes you’ve just got to woman up. This is one of those times.

I’m on the south coast today and it’s just normal UK autumn weather.

Fortunately there isn’t.

It would really depend on if there was a weather warning in place. The severe ones would usually see the schools off but for lesser ones I would just make a risk assessment. From your post it doesn't sound especially dangerous but you're the one in it.

No storm here, not even a breath of wind.
I sometimes kept my little ones off it was icy or a light fall of snow, this was the days before one flake of snow shuts down the entire country 😆 and before the days of being fined. Apart from one school secretary being snotty with me, nobody thought it wasnt ok

What....Is this a serious post!!! Oh god your children have no hope in life hahaha

No. It’s a storm. We get a lot of them…

I have learned a lesson from the ice - one day everything was like an ice rink and I somehow managed to walk my daughter to school and managed to get most of the way home until I fell a couple of streets away from my house. Next time I'm staying put 😅

🤣

I didnt drive back then and it was a long walk to school. They were only 5/6 so weren't missing important exams 😀

Thank you to all the helpful posters who recognised that I have anxiety or saw my post saying I do. I have had very little sleep this last week and my anxiety definitely gets worse when the longest stretch of sleep I’ve had is two hours. I also don’t have many people to ask advice from and one of them is my mother who is highly anxious and worries over every little thing so fighting the anxiety was harder when all I had her voice in my ear. I am working very hard on my worries and have done this last year, I do not verbalise any of my thoughts around my children and sometimes ask advice from places like mumsnet as I’m trying to override the highly anxious upbringing I had by getting a feel for what is ‘normal’ from ‘the general public’ when I haven’t got many people I can ask. My children seem to be resilient and I’ve been mindful to encourage that as I’m very aware that I don’t always have that trait. My children are at school for all those who are concerned!

I honestly think since storms started being named people lost all perspective and think they are a bigger drama than they are. If you keep your child off school everytime theres a storm they are going to miss a lot of school

They only tend to close schools if theres a red warning - not for yellow

The OP suffers from anxiety and has explained why they feel the way they do

We get bad storms where I live regular 80-90mph winds, still send them. Theyve always been fine, they just arent allowed outside at break/lunch. Fear not op, the storm is nowhere near as bad as they said it would be we were predicted 60-70mph winds we have 25mph!

I live in Scotland and the first storm this year saw danger to life warnings. My bathroom window blew in, the winds were that strong. There was extensive damage to trees in my area - ones that had been there for decades - snapped in two. It's got nothing to do with storms being named how much danger they cause.

I think you've had some valid responses OP. It's easy for people to mock when they don't have anxiety. However you do need to find some techniques to try and manage it. My nan used to have deep anxiety about thunderstorms. She absolutely put the fear into me as a kid. It's taken a lot of work for me to get over and even a month or so ago we walked home from school in one. It's hard but you'll get there in time.

How the flip are you going to
cope if a real life emergency situation happens. You are just being lazy because it’s slightly harder work in bad weather. Unless you have a disability which prevents you doing so, then you are being pathetic.

The OP has made a post saying why they suffer from anxiety. They don't need to be called lazy or pathetic

I remember walking to school during the 1987 storm (next morning), trees down, tiles blowing off school roof. It wasnt that bad, although they did send us home a bit early as a girl was injured by a tile that blew off the roof and hit her in the leg.