Single parents, WFH and home-schooling

[NooNooMummy]

Anyone else struggling?!!! I am just dreading every day of the next few weeks. No fricking idea how to do this!!! Again!!!!

Just about got through last time with our heads still above water but I don’t think my half-arsed attempts at rushing through my own work are going to cut it this time.

No financial help available to me other than a mortgage holiday... Just need my little one in school but we’re not vulnerable. Apparently...

Oh yes, definitely. It worked fine when DS was sleeping 8 to 7 but when to hell when he started sleeping only 6 hours a night... after spending three years trying everything to get him to sleep by 9 we agreed that he could stay awake in his room as long as he didn’t use screens and didn’t come out... he was up until 12 and downstairs having breakfast already dressed up by 6am.

Hi lovely -

I'm in the same boat, I work full time (thankfully from home at the moment) and have two primary school aged kids at home!
My year 5 daughter works fairly independently but the year 2 still can't read and can't do a thing without me sat with her.

It's a total shit show.

I'm concentrating on the reading every evening and encouraging painting and art stuff she can do in the other room while I work.

The mess I am faced with when I get up from my desk is always knockout.

But we are healthy and I just keep repeating that that is the main thing 🙈

Inside I'm crying! Xx

Reassuring to hear others in the same boat. Working from home, classed as a key worker but as I can work from home no place at the school. Sole custody, feel like single parents have been thrown under a bus without any recognition of how difficult exhausting and challenging it is. We get the bare minimum done but I refuse to put the long term impact of risking losing my job ahead of school work. Being unemployed would have a greater impact than only doing some school work.

Hi haven't read the whole thread (rushing) but I was refused a keyworker place as I wfh and our school are being super strict ie 6 in a bubble rather than the usual 32 in a class but I was given a place 2 days a week as the HT classed ds8 as vulnerable as I am a lp. She is doing this for all lp's. There is scope for all schools to do this under that heading but it seems to be at their discretion x

to all of those doing the juggle it is just awful leaving Ds by himself for hours whilst I'm in meetings sadly q reassuring to know it's not just me...we are all doing our best. My boss can't help me much but she does always say be kind to ourselves Susiesusiesoo xx

It's really hard. Both of mine are secondary age, but they still need my input. And catering and menu planning skills . My youngest is challenging and doesn't tend to work, I feel sick at how behind she will be.
My job is busy, we've taken on extra work from furloughed staff and even at the end of this I might not have a job.
It's survival mode basically.

Survival mode! Totally! My 7 year is going to be parked, alone in front of TV this afternoon while I get to some urgent work that just came in. It’s the quickest way... can’t think what weeks of this again are doing to her.