My children are fine with being at home...

[HmmSureJan]

And were happy they didn't have to go back to school yet. Dd doesn't like the on line work but days it's better than being at school so grins and bears it. Anyone else? I only ask because I see so many threads on here speaking of ruined childhoods and devastated children who have been abandoned to their fate. I just wondered if anyone had children like mine 🤷🏼‍♀️

Its like everything in life OP, there will be children who will do really well and throve in this environment and those who dont.

DS was like that first lockdown. Hes home ed full time now

Mine too. Love it.

My eldest DD is also happy to be at home (youngest only 2). We try not to worry her but she understands it's serious now and that we just need to try and limit mixing with others as much as we can.

I appreciate that our circumstances are better than for others though - I'm furloughed on full pay, DH is working from home but takes himself off upstairs. So I can work downstairs with DD1, catching up on my own college work, while DD2 does a sticker book/plays/has too much screen time then we'll have lunch and go for a walk to break the day up. She has my DH's old phone with a child-friendly app that she can use to keep in touch with her friends from school so that helps too.

My year 11 and 10 don't mind.
My year 8 wishes he could go to school like normal.
My year 5 doesn't mind but finds home learning challenging as she is dyslexic with self organisation issues.

My children love it. But surely as a parent can't you see it's detrimental and that they should be in a school setting with their friends?

I would have liked it as a child or teen as well, doesn't mean it would have been good for my education.

Mine were delighted they didn't have to go back.
DS2 (14, year 9) then spent the morning in tears refusing to do any work at all.

His HOY has said he can be in school as he didnt engage well with online learning last time. He promised me he would do the work this time. I've spent all morning arguing with him.

My 14 y/o is delighted (although he may be less delighted later, he attends specialist AP and I have just seen something suggesting those sites may be open).

My 11 y/o is really, really disappointed but will make the best of it, log on to google classrooms and do all his work, and at least has contact with all his friends on xbox live or whatever it is they use.

My 6 y/o is genuinely a bit upset because he was looking forward to seeing his friends but was fairly easily pacified when DH reminded him that they could go to the park every afternoon (DH was redundant at the end of Lockdown 1).

They'll cope. It's not ideal but it's not dreadful.

My eldest in year 10, wants to go back to school, misses friends and social element.

Youngest is year 2, loves home school, loves being at home in general but misses things like football and martial arts.

Well, my 12 yr old is delighted. In his head he thinks he will be spending all day on his x box, or on his phone whilst me and dh are out at work(both critical keyworkers) . In reality he is going to be taking up his keyworker place from next week because the effects of him being left to his own devices all day for months on end last time were just disastrous.

Mine are absolutely fine and were during the previous lockdown. No tears, no upset, just getting on with it.

Mine were delighted they didn't have to go back.
DS2 (14, year 9) then spent the morning in tears refusing to do any work at all.

Yes, sadly I suspect we will have some of this once the novelty has worn off.

@HmmSureJan

Mine were delighted they didn't have to go back. DS2 (14, year 9) then spent the morning in tears refusing to do any work at all.

Yes, sadly I suspect we will have some of this once the novelty has worn off.

I hope you don't. But if you do, and you work out how to deal with it please let me know because I'm at a total loss. :(

my DC are tween /teen. I think both see some positives (not having to get up as early for example and not having to sit in a freezing classroom or sit outside for lunch) but are generally far far happier at school, and seeing friends, doing their out of school activities etc.

I don't think their entire childhoods have been ruined and both are doing fine with their work (DD is predicted 8s and 9s for GCSEs) but I can't pretend it hasn't had an impact on them.

Good for them. I'm sure their medals are on the way.

Yeah mine are the same. Love it. Especially my older one who is a lazy tween. Younger one will take it or leave it. I feel very fortunate that my children are like this - makes lockdown a lot easier.

Yep, my 2 girls are so happy not to have to go to school. They are so much happier during holidays than at school (ASD/ ADHD and school anxiety). DS loves school nursery though and he really needs it to get his energy out (suspected ASD and ADHD). So while his sisters are happy playing and doing some work he is bouncing off the walls and trying to climb up any furniture he can find to throw himself off. I'm planning quite a few trips out to the beach or the park! (Allowed for SEN children where I am).

My dc are fine with it too. They get on with it but they would prefer to be in school.

My younger two are ok with it, miss their friends though.
Online work is hit and miss, they seem to either be able to do it in about ten seconds or act as though it's in a new language and they've never set foot in a school

Older two are in University and Sixth form, they are pretty miserable. University in particular has been woeful in supporting them, College is better but the experience is obviously not the same.
They're really missing their friends as well as actual in person learning. Both had jobs in the initial lockdown which helped a lot, they've been unable to over Christmas and it shows.
Their age group seems to be a bit neglected and often criticised. DS1 was told off by a stranger for lurking the other day when he he was playing hide and seek with DH and his little brothers. It upset him which is out of character, he'd usually laugh it off.

My son definitely prefers being at home, and homeschooling works quite well for us academically because I used to teach, but I don't think it is entirely in his best interests because he tends towards being reserved and needs to maintain his social skills.

My DD is an only child so she's not too keen.

Mine likes it! He was pissed odd as he was supposed to sit his GCSEs last year and had been working hard but he enjoys online school - but the school has a very good set up and is really organised. He sets up a makeshift green screen behind his desk and creates bonkers backdrops to go with the subject being taught. He have a few online groups of friends where they are programming games or playing online games or just shows trying nonsense about football.

@RaspberryCoulis

Good for them. I'm sure their medals are on the way.

Apologies. I didn't realise we were only allowed to discuss kids who are miserable and struggling.

Kids in “happy to have time off school shocker”

My dc are loving it as they did last time , for a while , untill they missed their friends , their teachers , the variety of a day at school , football with their friends , structure etc etc etc

My dc would happily eat Mac ds and play on Minecraft for 3 days straight if I let them . Doesn’t make it good for them in the long run