...to be irritated by people who pack their DCs off to clubs as soon as the hols start?

[juicy12]

I'm not talking about people who work full/part-time here. But really about people who are SAHM/SAHDs. Some people seem to be terrified at the prospect of spending any time with their DCs just in the home, just hanging out or doing home activities. I've got a DS - 5 and a DD - 2.5, and I'm looking forward to some weeks of chilling out, painting, craft stuff, swimming, playing etc. I've lost count of the number of other SAHMs who take the "can't possibly have them at home for 6 weeks" line and schedule the entire break to within a nano-second. Or am I being mean not booking DS1 in for loads of different activities?

Pointy fight club for them as well!!! as you have 2 its 1 full pkt of custard creams and 2 jaffa cakes

what fun are we having upstairs? Has this been decided on yet?

My last post was an ironic one in response to betadad.

Thank you for the offer, evenstar, but I am not in need of fight club with a park and an estate on my doorstep

ZZZ, no not yet ideas welcome

Pointy no you may not be but then all dc are locked in the cellar!!!!

Rounding them up and clubbing them is considered illegal in 45/59 states.

Dolly lol we won't tell anyone then

I am now sitting with the BIGGEST chunk of Edam and a cheese knife,.........thanks to whoever brought up cheese!! LOL

My DS got a star for trying it, once he got the star, he then spat it in the bin

lol bubble that would be me that mentioned cheese....and i blame ds2 21m he has opened the fridge took cheese out saying "cheese mama" then before i could get to him had got a knife out the draw and walked over to sofa to cut it saying "a bit a bit"

why on earth would you care what other people do with their kids holidays?

Well Lady, I have just about polished off the lot I never eat cheese like that, I went to the fridge to get a twix and came into the living room with cheese!! Loosing it I think!!

i see that juicy hasnt come back

she is obv being a perfect mummy and making/playing with her children

while the rest of us are ignoring/getting rid of ours

DD (6) loves to go to tennis club from 10-1 each morning during the holidays. She gets to play games and have a packed lunch with her (new and different) friends, learn a great sport and gets to hang out with her beloved "coaches" (20-something hunks).

If we said that she had to stay home with DM every day there would be uproar!

i think parents who claim to enjoy their dc 24/7 are probably lying...children can be very dull and annoying, it does everyone good to have some space imo.....so;

yabu...

butkin - and dont forget the sweets they get at the end of the week

mine always get a bag of maybe 10 1p sweets and are THRILLED byt them

I would only care if I had to pay for it....I used to love going to clubs during the hols...

YABU - you have no right to be irritated by how other families spend their holidays.

Your dcs are still young - over the next few years you will find that they simply don't want to be spending their time with you, prefering to be wherever their friends are.

YABU Why are you bothered? What you do with your children is your business and others theirs. There can be many reasons for children going to clubs and they are not just for those who are working. Don't be irritated by things like this life is too short believe me.

I'm interested to know how many of our parents spent the summer holidays doing "stimulating activities" with us?

In my case, we had no money. When we were very little we played in the garden with next door. When we were bigger we played in the street. Bigger still, packed off to the beach or the park with a bottle of orange squash and some sandwich spread butties. Came home for tea, then cleared off again.

No holiday clubs, no holidays, no trips. I don't remember feeling deprived at all - I knew no different I suppose. I don't recall anyone doing "crafts" with me ever. Pens and a colouring book....

This contrasts very sharply with my 5yo dd's summer holidays!

Portofino, I was like you too I loved the long summer nights even at half ten when my mother called us in, we never wanted to go in and then would beg her if we could just stay out but stay in our street.

No art and crafts for me either, got up, got fed, got washed, got chucked out till dinner time and I LOVED it!!!

My DS is out playing at the minute, he's four and playing with all the bigger girls, he now thinks he's popular!!

Portofino

We spent our summer holidays in one of 3 places, both parents worked so we were either dropped off at a local lido at 0830 and picked up at 1700 (pack lunch in hand), or we were sent to grandparents and we given 'fun' jobs to do like polishing the silver and clearing the shed!!..or we were just left at home to fend for ourselves!!

It was great fun at the time.

There was an ocaisional council run playscheme which we were taken too, where I learnt to smoke!

my parents were both teachers-so no excuses about lack of time off etc. They used to drop me at the stables at 6.30 and pick me up at tea time-all day, every day,every weekend and holiday-from the age of 7.
Actually that's a lie,occasionally they didn't pick me up, i'd ride my pony DOWN THE RIVER and across the motorway bridge and we'd stick it in the back garden for the night.i don't recall anything else for summer (other than museums/cathedrals-free entry/big family)

I've had a flashback to the excitement that was hunting "July Bugs" with a tennis racket. To this day I don't know exactly what these insects are, but there was a rumour that if you got one stuck in your hair, you'd have to have it shaved off!

Did it NEVER rain in the summer holidays in the 70s? My memories are of being outside all the time. Mr Whippy came in the evening and if you were lucky you got 10p for a Screwball, or money to go to the chippy for scraps and chips. Maybe I should start a new thread.......

TheLadyEvenstar - I'm with you on the house move. Right in the middle of our second one in three weeks. If DSs were around they would be going mad with boredom by now.

Not sure that having younger DCs makes it any easier. Mine are 3.11 and 1.5. At any given moment I'd happily hand them over to anyone and I usually spend most of every day neglecting them. I rant about how I hate being home with them on a regular basis. I love my DDs dearly in smaller doses, but the 24/7 thing drives me crazy!

I wish DD1 was old enough to go to holiday camps! But as it is we're stuck with each others' company for 6 weeks, but unable to do all the stuff we usually do like Legoland or swimming cos of all the crowds of larger children in the way. Gah!!

Maybe next year I won't dread it so much, since DD1 will have been at school all year and I'll have had a chance to miss her and will look forward to time together.

I don't normally like to do the "trumping" thing, but the OP is is being very presumptious. My youngest has SN and luckily has access to an amazing hoilday club, without which we would both go nuts. She needs the structure, and I need the respite. So in my view YABU.