to be gutted that my kids are going back to school?

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Everyone I know is practically counting down the hours until their DC go back to school but I'm gutted! I really love the time we have together in the hols, hate all the routine and rushing around during term time.

When I tell friends that I don't want my kids to go back to school they look at me like I have two heads!

I hate them going back to school too, I love being with them for the holidays.

Alarm goes off at 7.30
Packed lunches take 5 mins (how hard is it to make a ham sandwich and stick a carton of juice and some fruit in a bag?)
DD (age 4 so still at pre school) does take ages to eat her cereal , thats why she's given hers first and I bark Sergent Major like at her every 5 mins.

Lego is put away the night before (ok dumped in big boxes) I don't let them play in the morning

There is a schedule and dire consequences for lateness (ds's friend knocking on the door wondering where we are for a start)

alarm at 6.45, we have to be in car at 7.45 latest.

How do you stop children playing in the morning?

I have a routine too, but I have learned over the years to allow for a time wasting and shouting slot.

Alarm at 6.30. Need to be in the car at 7.30. Beat ya!

Probably helps ds is very keen to get out in the morning (we walk to school with his friend)so he can chivvy dd along.

I am so not a morning person so they know any backchat and theres trouble.

I do allow 10 mins extra for dd's malingering
over her non branded cheerio's.

well two lots of sandwiches,salad and and fruit and i make drinks-don't do cartons.

finding socks for both of them. getting ds2 to eat breakfast and get dressed.
getting myself sorted etc etc

we always seem rushed

I think a lot depends on the area you live in. If you live on benefits in a small flat on bleak council estate where the park is full of fag ends and glass. Even the library is a bus journey away and you have no car or money to pay the bus fair. Its understandable if someone in that kind of situation hates school holidays.

Where I live the council put on quite a few activites which are free and there are several lovely parks and the library is close by. I have a small house and gardern. Hence summer holidays are much more pleasent for me.

respect Pointydog

I also need to be in the car some time between 7.30 and 7.40.....and I'm one of those 'lazy' teachers who starts work at 9. Ha! as if!

In comes mb, a late contender for earliest house-leaver

mb beats me with with my late departure of 7.45

I don't want to home educate yet I am also dreading mine going back to school.

My delightful daughter is going into yr 1 and when I went and brought her new school uniform I wanted to bundle her into my car and head for the hills.

I'll miss her

LOL

I only have a 3 mile drive, but if I leave it any later, we just end up late, and it stresses the snot out of me.

We've been doing it doe years, since the kids started school. thank god they have pre and post school clubs

YANBU. I am so going to miss having my dd at home.

Yes she's a PFB (POB to be honest) and I don't know if that makes a difference? but I've had so much fun this last 6 weeks...the pictures, the parks, the art galleries...a trip down to London and a west end show. It's been bliss! I am SO not looking forward to the routine of school again. Still...after about a week I'll probably be loving it again.

DD said she's quite looking forward to going back, though. She just wishes she could have some more holiday as well. Just as well she added the last bit or I'd be asking myself whether my deodorant was still working. Or whether I'd had more fun than she had. Both of which are possibly true

Not at all i am really really going to miss mine

im with op.i want more time!and ds2 will really not be happy with just boring mummy for company!

I thought I was the only one wishing my Ds was off for another month! I've loved having him home for the first time ever! and the hols seem to have whizzed by(much like the whole year so far). He goes back on Wednesday and I don't want him to

I've really enjoyed mine and I will miss them, but dd turns pale at the mention of home education and besides I do need to get back to work. Another couple of weeks would have been nice though...

Julienoshoes, thanks for that. I didnt see it before. Will take a look.