to find Summer quite guilt-inducing and stressful?

[Undercovamutha]

Don't get me wrong, I do love the good weather we are having and enjoy the light nights, children being able to play in the garden, bbqs - the works.

BUT Summer also kind of stresses me out and makes me feel quite guilty, for the following reasons:

1. We live a long way from the local swings but when the weather is nice I feel a constant sense of guilt about not taking the kids there enough.

1. Feel a constant guilt for my use of the tumble dryer when the weather is nice (am too lazy to peg out most of the time).

1. Our garden is always appallingly badly kept. Our lawn always seems to be the longest. The hedge is always a bit overgrown - sigh!

1. I agonise over whether to let DD play in the street on her own (and then don't let her), and then end up having to stand in the road watching her like a lemon!

I think I might be a summer Scrooge! AIBU - I think maybe I'm just too lazy for summer!!!!

1. Swing parks are the work of the devil - boring, in summer they are parked. I feel like I've been lobotomised when I take the dcs to them.

2.Yep, that's quite lazy, but then I hang my washing out and it stays there for days because I can't be bothered bringing it in - that's lazy too.

1. Long grass good for children to play in. Or get a sheep.
2. How old is your dd? What kind of street do you live in.

Overall I think YANBU but need more info!!

PACKED, not parked.

Don't worry about your garden, think of it as a conservation area

You forgot number 5 - suncream. I hate, hate, hate putting on suncream.

Maybe a little unreasonable, because most of those things are brought on by yourself!

Can I add another (my main one -love hanging washing out and bringing it in, as long as it's not going to rain)

SUN TAN LOTION

horrible stuff, takes ages to put on, nver convinced I've covered all of him, he's grimy so I rub grimy cream into his face and eyes, the 'clever' squirty stuff s useless, just goes all over my trousers...I HATE it

o and then you're meant to do it all again 3 hours later

x post pink

It's always much harder to have a veg around in the house day when the sun is glaring in and making you feel guilty for not being out in it.

yes, you can't stick a DVD on to entertain DCs reasoning well at least it's raining!!
And before people tell me to send them outside - he won;t play on his own out the back and I can't leave him alone playing at the front. So I have to be there, kicking that ball, hunting that conker, racing around. Which I can really only keep up for an hour oor so before MN calls

Suncream is a definite number 5.

DD is 3.7yo and we live in a quiet street, but with parked cars on pavement, and some traffic.

Long grass would be okay, were it not for the cat poo !

Totally agree SPB!

Yanbu! Every time I look at the garden it makes me feel guilty. Bring on the miserable winter!

Well, first of all it isn;t summer yet!

And second, YABUfor feeling guilty. Don't feel guilty, be more self assertive and confident in your decisions. If you don't want to go to the park, that's your choice, so why feel guilty>

If you use your tumble dryer, that's your choice, so don't feel guilty.

If you don't look after your garden, accept that, don't feel guilty.

Guilt is a useless emotion.

Glad to see this thread, was thinking of posting something very similar myself! Now I can't blame the weather for everything!

Our garden's a mess and ds refuses to sleep anywhere but his cot, so going out for any length of time is invariably a bit of an arse

I am a bit of a Summer scrooge too. I get hayfever. I get prickly heat. I am bfing this year so no hayfever remedies for me! Next year I will have to work (both parents are teachers so having dc in childcare in the Summer months is a massive source of guilt for me!)

At least you have a garden, I would eat my own eyeball if it meant my kids had some space to play.

I'm living in a small house, with a tiny yard which is guilt inducing enough. And....

Both children are severely disabled and so can't go out without me, the guilt gnaws at me daily when they sit at the window watching all the chidren playing outside in game they will never be included in.

I bloody hate the summer, it's one big, sweaty guiltfest. Bring on the winter I say !

You are definitely NBU!

Feel exactly the same myself. It's that awful niggling guilt that you shoud be out doing something "healthy" in the sunshine all the time.

As we speak my tumble-dryer is rumbling away in the background. Feel guilty as hell - tho not enough to actually hang clothes out on the line, obviously...

YABU I love it !

Don't have a garden to feel guilty about though. The only thing i don't like is the issue of summer clothing. I don't own any which usually brings about comments all the time.

Yep completely agree and have no outside space so going outside with a toddler involves packing up a bag with nappies, suncream, drink, snacks, toys, then the whole pushchair/walking argument. I always feel like I should be Doing Stuff when it is sunny.

So sometimes when it pees it down with rain I am secretly pleased I can stay in and MN!

You forgot to mention the flies/wasps/bees that you have to chase round the house as soon as you open a window.

And the sound of people mowing their lawns at some ungodly hour of the morning thus increasing guilt about the state of own garden

Nd the ice cream van........ Every day they all want an over priced ice cream!!

And the paddling pool out constantly!

And tents and footballs........and trips out to farms, theme parks

Just tell the DC's that the Icecream van only plays his tune when he is sold out and on the way home. It works for us.

YANBU.

I hate summer for two reasons:

1. I am ginger
2. I look shit in hotpants

Roll on autumn.

fgs, cut your grass, hang out your washing adn tell dd the swing park has been closed.

summer is great

I'm the same
the dcs prefer to stay in and then I feel gulity and am paranoid about what the neighbours must think
when we're in the garden I am paranoid about them listening to us over the fence
I prefer snuggling up in front of DVDs than mowing grass and batting away wasps
the only thing I like about summer is not worrying how many layers the dcs should be wearing, lol