Do you send your kids to school on their birthdays?

[charliecat]

My dds have the same birthday and this year I am planning on keeping them off so they can enjoy their birthday.
The alternative is sending them, them not having 5 mins to open their pressies let alone play with them and then with a heavy heart sending them off crying. Not for me.
If they got up at 5am and had chance to play I wouldnt mind but we barely have time for anything in the morning as it is so it would be chaotic...anyway...how much trouble am I going to get in for this? Do I lie and say they both had tummy bugs or what? What do you do?

I had, Cod

After all, she's LOLing about it and will do it anyway. Will LOL at her when it all goes tits up though

Peace at last

last time I'll post on a thread after not reading the whole thing

aloha and others who hated school I'm so totally with you. School was a complete nightmare to me, hated every second of it from putting on the uniform to smelling the disinfectant in the corridors. Yuck. Horrible. I did anything and everything I could to stay away from the place and I have to say that my parents NEVER let me stay off for my birthday or anything like it but I still ended up an awful truant by the time I was in my early teens.

Really truly what the hell difference would it make to keep them off at this age for their birthdays? My dd's only 3 and at playgroup but we kept her home for her birthday and the staff said it was fairly typical that parents did that. I think maybe more do than not?

Also I have a friend who brought up 5 kids and she'd regularly keep one or other of them at home with her so they could get some one-to-one time together as life was so hectic they'd sometimes need it. What's the problem? We've got so many rules to follow throughout life, no?

Um, I wasn't bullied or a total reject btw (not that this means you are a bad person she hastily adds)! Am seeing someone I went to school with for lunch tomorrow. My closest friend is someone else I went to school with. Honest guv!
Just don't like large groups, lots of noise, lack of autonomy, authority figures and rules.
And I think my schools were pretty crap tbh. Not my or my parents' first choice.

I hated the inflexibility of the week. I was a daydreamer and would rather have been able to take my time over things instead of being shunted from school bell to school bell. I barely concentrated at school but then later I did A levels at college independently and a BA, an MA and a PhD so I was obviously educatable (if there is such a word) just didn't go for school.

My dd1's birthday is in the summer holidays so she's never at school on her birthday.

I always had to go to school on my birthday, the teacher would get the class to sing happy birthday to the birthday person. I used to open some of my presents in the morning and some more after school then have a birthday tea and birthday cake.

Yes, another dithery daydreamer here too!

2 hours later and i've reached the top of this thread

CC - I've always sent DS in on birthdays, but that's just the way things have always been in our family.

I did actually send him back to school 2 days late though as I hadn't realised the term had started until the school rang - it was a thursday????

And I will admit that when doing my A Levels, my friend and I filled out our absence form very truthfully with 'we had to go to Merry Hill shopping to get a new bikini for our holiday to Tenerife'

That sounds really awful now - oops, but I really try to teach DS the importance of school and how lots of children in poorer countries would love the opportunity of an education.

Hope they have a good birthday whatever you plan for them

my birthday is in August and I remember feeling hard done by cos I didn't get to go to school and have a fuss made of me - I thought it was very unjust. has never occured to me not to send dds in on their birthdays

You know what, aloha, I was thinking about this last night. I'm still absolutely rubbish at having my schedule dictated for me, I'm the perfect mother in fact for a 3-year-old procrastinator.

God yes, ds and I are both dithery procrastinors who lose the will to do something half way through....it's a bloody nightmare getting out of the house together

No time to read the thread but, yes, I do - would never consider not sending them tbh.

OMG no aloha, of course I didn't mean that (& certainly didn't think it ). just giving my personal reason for hating the place. And I have loads and loads of friends now

yes, yes, we are all extremely popular these days

we all love you!

did anybody read the observer today with a rather long quote from the recent private schools thread on here?

Is that legal ???

I thought that

it was by rhiann and she said she had to read 101 dalmations in school when she was reading jane austen at home and she got spat at at the bus stop

the article mentions mumsnet and another site but the quotes are swapped over

I was going to comment on the article but i won't here

It's focus on p19 Is it worth the money by Amelia Hill

and it is a direct quote from hererhiann