AIBU to find it annoying when parents moan about the summer holidays?

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I really love hanging out with my children every day during the holidays, and sometimes feel like I can't wait until term ends so we can spend proper time together. I try and organise activities every day and make sure everyone is having fun; I've heard lots of mums here complaining about how long they are, but I'm not sure why? Feels like quite a negative way to talk about the sunny months and spending time with your own children? Even the mums at the school gates have been complaining about Easter recently and I can't relate or understand why they see it as such a challenge.

Smuggy McSmugface, OP

For balance I assume op is talking about stay at home parents with able bodied children complaining loudly in April about the summer holidays. I know these parents too, and it is because they view their dc as hard work and a long way from enjoyable. The summer holidays are an endurance because they find their dc difficult.

I agree fundamentally with what you are saying. Summer - we have around 14/15 in sum total to spend with our children from the year they are born. Of course we want to have the best summers possible, at the seaside, picnics, paddling in streams and having idyllic summers they will consider to be the cornerstone and epitome of childhood. So I get wanting this for your dc, wanting this for yourself and cherishing every minute. Absolutely. It’s not hard to plan a happy and fun filled summer if you are lucky enough to be at home with your dc. Many working mothers would love the opportunity so complaining is very insensitive.

I love the holidays too OP. I don't organise activities every day but my dc are pretty chilled and happy to play out with mates or be at home.

We don't have money for days out every day or more than once a week. But I love that feeling of having nothing planned and my dc get on really well with each other and also the local kids.

I have taken a lower paid job (which doesn't fulfil and stretch me and is frequently frustrating for those reasons and we don't have loads of money for luxuries) so I can have most holidays off. People make different choices. OP is allowed to enjoy hers.

piano my teen too is great company and I know most of her friends are just as lovely. I love spending time with my teen, so don’t listen to the it’s all downhill from seven brigade! Not in my experience and many others.

Just think, your kid's teacher has had 30+ of them all year. And taught them stuff too. 6 weeks with just a couple? Should be easy. Isn't.

Parents: your turn now. Unless of course you're a teacher and a mum like me, in which case hahaha no break for you, sucker!

Dammit 😆

I absolutely love the school holidays, but only because I work term time and get to stop running around like a blue arsed fly 247 during this time.

If you work, it’s hard. If you have any children with additional needs, it’s hard. If you’re broke, it’s hard.

Some kids go back to school after the summer break, looking malnourished because they are missing breakfast club and their hot lunch. Its not all day trips and fun clubs for everyone!

People know kids need looking after when they have them..

Well, true. But I didn't think it would be so tedious because, like most people, I was slightly delusional!

strictly seriously? They come back to your school looking malnourished. Why don’t they use the food banks? We do masses of collections every week (my dd is a volunteer and we help out throughout the year) it must be shocking to see the children return to school looking noticeably malnourished, do you contact agencies to support them?

The OP is clearly a journalist #fuckoffdailymail...

tawdry delusional? Most people?
I don’t agree at all. Who is responsible for your life being ‘tedious’ if it’s not you? Make it more interesting and stimulating if you are bored.

OPs other thread from yesterday:

“I feel like recently I've become more of a machine who does their cleaning, puts pasta on the table, lays out their uniform, drives them around. They're 8 and 10, and all their fun and games seem to either come from screens or their friends. Does anyone else find it hard to do fun things together?”

strange that the same person finds it simultaneously hard and easy to have fun with their kids...

ceevee and?
The school routine gets her down clearly and that’s why she looks forward to the fun of holidays. Why is that breaking news? Most people feel the same.

Springwalk are you ok? You seem a bit irritable.

Op has only ever posted on 3 threads all in two days and not returned to any of them:
1 goading about moaning mums
1 about screen time
1 about gambling
Classic dailymail fodder but go ahead and keep posting if you want to be in the articles...

Not just our school, nationwide problem with poverty during the school holidays. Summer the worst as it’s for longer. Not all in poverty can access food banks.

Ceeveebee is right, op is stirring up emotions on this thread and not returning.

I try to organise activities every day and make sure everyone is having fun

Oh do fuck off

I love spending holidays with my children, especially now DS can cut lawns and hedges, and DD makes an excellent jug of Pimms. Plus we can go to the pub and DD drives us home.
Hang in there, it gets better. They were both lovely teenagers, from about 15.

I think a lot of mums on here would love spending every day with their child if they could afford and have time to plan an activity all day every day. Realistically your average family can probably afford one or two trips a week which leads to hours at the park or in front of the TV and bored/restless children. I think it is unfair to judge people when you sound as though you have quite a privelliged life.

If she wanted something juicy for the DM I am sure she would have posted something far more contentious. Along the lines of ‘ nurseries cause long term damage to babies and children’ why do parents use them. Or some other emotional grenade.
Posting a thread saying you find moaning parents annoying really is not going to produce anything substantial. So it’s unlikely to be a journalist.

Odfod

tawdry I am sitting in the eve sun having a g&t. A long way from irritable, but then I don’t consider my life to be tedious.

Because I can't have 6 weeks off WORK! So it's and endless round of shoving kids from pillar to post and getting into debt taking them on guilt caused days out!!!

Love the Summer holidays, but I was a SAHM now a teacher so never had the juggling childcare thing to do.

They don’t need to be going out everyday, some of our best summer days are spent in the garden or hanging out with friends.

institute Because I wasn't aware their father was going to develop a gambling habit which would lead him to not only empty our bank account of all savings but also ultimately lose us our house and leave me a single parent. Perhaps if I'd had a crystal-bastard-ball I wouldn't be in this unenviable position but here we are - me with my responsibilities and you with your multiple personality defects.