to leave the DDs to work at home alone for the next 10 days?

[EccentricaGallumbits]

Seconday school. DDs 11 and 13. They have the next 10 days off as the school is moving into a new building. They have work to do at home. I am working. DH is working. They will have to get on with it alone.
Is this reasonable?

Will there be anybody available for any emergencies? Think 13 yr DD should be responsible enough, but will they do their work or sit and watch TV etc all day? Maybe some supervision is required. 10 days is a long time IMO without any kind of supervision.

seems reasonable to me - as long as they get on ok and won't fight?

boredom may be an issue - can they be trusted to pop to the shops some days and choose some lunch? might break it up a bit?

they hate each othe and will fight.

DD1 also thinks she ill be spending 10 days hanging out with friends, going to the cinema, shopping and chatting and not supervising DD2.

I don't trust either of them to get on with work without being constantly supervised and nagged.

However. I have to go to work and can't take 10 days off to supervise them so it's tough.

Oh my fucking god. They finished school half an hour ago. been in the house together 10 minutes and either they are going to kill each other or i'm going to kill them both.

they are utterly vile.

help help help help help.

Have you considered short term cryogenesis?

Have you got an elderly neighbour who can sit in with them?

Can 1 of them go to work with you and sit at a desk there and work and the other go to dh/dp's place of work.

Have they bth got friends from school where you can swap

So dd1 is at home one day with a mate (as they are less likely to fall out) and dd2 goes to a friend?

Then swap as and when you can?

wouldn't dream of inflicting their vile behaviour on anyone else.

neither dh nor i have jobs either one can come along to.

this is not going to end well. newspaper headlines and social services knocking on the door.

can the older one go to work in a library with friends?

They must all be in the same boat - maybe you could work something out with other parents and use different houses every day or something?

Well, if you kill them both this evening, that'll solve the problem nicely, won't it?

will be calling in a lot of favours. have organised some swaps over the next week.

why do they pick this month to have a particularly vile and horrible hormonal surge?

I think tsc is right. Definitely counselling. I believe they are probably struggling with sexuality issues and are probably gay and/or incestuous. Or psychopathic. Or all three.

ahem. secondcoming. do you have hormonal teenage girls in your house? i think it is pretty standard hormonal vileness. i am indeed a shite parent who can't wait to get out of the door to work most days but our mutual shouting matches relationships are really quite normal.

I know this won't help but I am astounded that the school can just say "Right, we're moving, so kids off you go with your work, and tough to all the working parents out there" - which I am sure are the majority at secondary school level. Especially at the end of the year with holiday entitlements used up and what isn't is saved for Christmas.

Maybe you should have some kind of reward system for them? Basically, bribe them Like - 'if you do x amount of school work today you get x reward'.

I know it's probably not the best way to motivate, but it's only a temporary situation.

hully - you're probably right and it is all my fault for forcing them into gender specific roles as toddlers.

this is going to bankrupt me.

one hour of not causing physical pain to the other earns 20p?
10 minutes without screaching above 50000 decibels earns 35p?

If they had a terrible accident they could spend a week or so in hospital?

argh. no. i bloody work there - they'd expect me to visit them!

It's death and the morgue then. Or good old cryogenesis which I don't believe you've given any real thought to.

Just reading this thread and am expecting my second DD in 10 days. My first is 19 months. Is this how sisters behave? Is this normal and what I have ahead of me? I have three brothers and no sisters so don't have a clue....

I have 2 sisters and also have 3 DDs (all under 6 at the moment, though).

It is, I am sad to say, perfectly normal. I love my sisters dearly and we get on well now, but I think Mum used to hide the kitchen knives when we were teenagers......

they sound toxic and narcissistic while you are passive agressive and without emotional intellegence have you tried rebirthing? [spontaneously combusts in pyre of pseudo speak]