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?

so what does your mates/dp/dh think about it

When they are young hes saying it ok, but when they are older No No to quote dp.
My mum says Well you lot went to school, forgetting that I didnt because my birthdays 5 days before Xmas.
Friends have never said anything either way.

CC did you expect most people did keep their kids off on birthdays?

I always take the day off work on my birthday! Actually I try to have it on holiday as then it clearly doesn't count towards your age. I am 29.

I dont know...I thought some may send them some wouldnt. I wanted to know originally what excuses were used..lol

CC - DS1's school breaks up on the 20th December, and I remeber breaking up only 2/3 days before when I was at school (depended on what day of the week Christmas was) so it's quite possible you DID go to school sometimes for your birthday

I really didnt! Certainly not from when I remember, which would be from 9 onwards.

Well I am planning to take dd oyt of shcool for her b'day as we have booked disneyland paris tickets for a long weekend then. I am the evil mum from hell, taking my kids out of school for a HOLIDAY !!!!!

However I wouldn't take them out JUST for their b'day

Right Crunchie...take the heat off go start a thread about that will you. Strangely... I would take holidays in holiday time..

cc will you be keeping a photo diary on members profiles on monday

Oh yeah If i can resize the piccys that is.
They would get shot down in flames though..so maybe not.

i haven't read the whole thread, its got too long, but no, personally i would not keep my kids off school for their birthday.

cc that one's been done a million times and I KNOW I would be flamed for it. So far I have done it each year in Jan/Feb time (not disney, but a few days off school) However that has been due to DH work.

My mum used to let me have the day off providing I did her ironing Never caused me any harm and I got good grades but schools really seem to have cracked down on taking time off now so I don't think I would let my child off for their bday.

charliecat - kids can have molluscum for months at a time. Keeping them off for that would put a serious dent in their education!

have just seen this thread title and would be horrified that anyone would keep their child of school because it's their birthday! what? crazy!

Oh come on, that's different. If DS wanted to do the ironing, I'd let him stay off school for a week!

charliecat - it is my dd's birthday next Monday too. I intend to ask her tonight whether she would like the day off - I dare say she would laugh in my face - "yeah right mum!"

I might ask her as well if she wants the Thursday off because that was the day she was due.

Haven't read whole thread (but seems darned interesting from just skimming through). Just wanted to add that I wouldn't keep dss off school for birthdays (when they eventually start school) - they can have a special treat when they come home.

I was incredibly conscientious at school and would feel terribly guilty about letting them miss school and then lying about it.

Poor cc! What a bashing she's getting. And she's so lovely and such a fun mum.

Hurray for you piffle!

I take the day off for my birthday too!!

Poor CC should face up to her legal requirements as a parent to send her children to school. Ditto the others who are advocating their children stay off school on their birthdays. No flippin' wonder we have children and young adults who constantly question and flout school authority when we have parents like this. Sheesh.

Quite right paolosgirl. We can't have our children questioning things and thinking for themselves. Heaven forfend!

Spidermama - it depends on the age of the children. Once they have a respect for authority and the maturity to understand the rationale for the rules, then of course they may question them - but at 5 and 8 I doubt that they have this maturity. And of course they should have an appreciation that there is a process involved in changing the rules, and that it is not simply a matter that if you don't like a rule that you should ignore it. I may feel that I can safely drive down my road at 40mph, and that the 30mph limit is unnecssary, but I have to accept that there will be consequnces if I do so.

children should be seen and not heard