Guilt Free Railing Four

[WouldBeGood]

The tone stays low and the railing goes on

I think Scotland's, NI's and Wales' plans are as you described too @Y0uCann0tBeSer10us. Cases will rise in Scotland and these other countries too but decisions have been made which take this into account.

I have zero faith that having everyone back to school in England won't mean that deaths rise to a high level again and I'm much more comfortable with the approach the rest of the UK are taking. I can also see either a screeching u turn in a few weeks as the Eng Gov lose control again ( like they did at the start of the year) or continuing with everyone in and, like I said, covid cases high again. Hopefully though, the testing does what it's supposed to and outbreaks in schools/ children taking covid home to their families is much reduced compared to the Christmas term.

I know it's rubbish if you have a teenager that wants to go to school though! I wasn't really like that - I was good in school but I would've loved to have been off ( she says - as a teacher now!).

So rant away and I'll leave you as I know I don't normally come on this thread. 🙈🤔

I’m very fucked off with the ridiculous DOOM approach of the SG.

I’d just open everything if it were up time 😃The time has come!

But at the very least schools should be fully in, properly and normally.

There’s no prescribed opinion on the railings thread, @GirlLovesWorld - all railing welcome!

The only rule is no trying to cheer up others or anything off Parent Club Scotland, or resilience wankery.

It’s a horrible time and people get fucked off with different things- judgement free venting is therapeutic

@StarryEyeSurprise I was not a fan of school either, but the prospect of being trapped in with my mental parents on the perpetual seventies Sunday that is life today might have been even worse 😂😂

I was thinking earlier that I have no resilience anymore. Things used to just bounce off me but little things really get me down now, eg my 4yo had a bit of a tiff with his best friend at nursery and I was so upset about it for days.
How can I expect my 4yo to be resilient when this pandemic has taken up a quarter of his life now?

@shouldistop I hear you with the kids thing. My toddler is going through a daddy stage and normally I would laugh like I did with my older DD and be glad of the break but it's really been getting to me. I know it's totally irrational and she's just being a toddler but I just can't seem to at the minute.

Never mind will pop over to Parent Club ... NOT! I hear you though it's so shit

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021
It is hard isn't it. 4yo told me he didn't love me anymore the other day too and I know it's just a reaction to the baby / lockdown etc but it makes me feel like I'm failing him. I've always been so confident in my mothering too. The last year has really knocked my confidence with wfh with no childcare / pregnancy then having the baby in the latest lockdown.
I can't say anything to my mum as she immediately starts going on that she had it hard too and that I'm not the only one with 2 kids.

Just checking in and so pleased to see the good news on Mr G

Not really in railing mode cos I love a bit of political drama and DD3 and I are running a GoGo election for HEd.

Sick of the rain mind.

oh yes, if I had a pound every time my mum (who is retired, not working full time whilst home schooling - thank god that's nearly over) has said we're all in the same boat aren't we?...and 'I had more children than YOU, how do you think I coped'?

my younger DD will say she hates me or DH anytime she feels particularly thwarted over a biscuit or making a mess :)

@shouldistop I hear you several times I’ve just been so tired and blue that I’ve burst out crying in front of my three year old. I had a sore neck, was trying to video chat to my mum and the wee one hates video chats so he jumped on me, hung up the phone and I just started sobbing. Proper embarrassing, massive sobs. And I just had to rein it in because DH was working upstairs and couldn’t be disturbed. Knowing he was sat upstairs with a coffee somehow made it so much worse. It’s been hell, hasn’t it?

Glad to hear Mr G is doing better!

@shouldistop I get it too . 3 year old doesn't want to do anything with me anymore, Daddy is the fun parent. The 1 year old is obviously part of that, but that fact that for the majority of the year he's been stuck with me indoors or on pram walks, or me shushing him because his Dad is on work calls, has surely contributed. I want to take a day of leave and just have a fun day the two of us, but he seems really not bothered, which got to me! It will get better...I hope!

And do not start me on the comments and lack of empathy from my mum. It sounds like parenting small children in the 80s was just as hard as in a pandemic with restrictions for the past year .

Was just thinking, Jason Leitch is very religious. A propos of our discussion yesterday about worship allowed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@WouldBeGood

Was just thinking, Jason Leitch is very religious. A propos of our discussion yesterday about worship allowed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I didn't think that was really aimed at Christians tbh.

Maybe not

fucking zero elimination.

fucking impossible.

lockdown forever.

It’s fucking hopeless

I didn't think that was really aimed at Christians tbh.

I duno tbh, churches are allowed to open in time for Easter. I'm Christian (although since having small kids have attended church less) and I do think it must feel very unfair to atheists that Cinemas and the like aren't allowed to open too given the similar lay out. I would also love to go to mum and baby cinema, probably more so than church tbh.
It will be nice to hopefully get baby ds christened soon though, currently in talks with my minister.

If Lockdown continues much longer I will be visiting family, mental health is getting to be a bigger danger to me than Covid .

I’d quite to be religious. Though I’m a raging atheist I love the ritual. And music.

I could see that gathering together to worship is pretty important.

True, i forgot about Easter.

I want to be a Quaker so I can sit in contemplative silence for an hour once a week.

@GirlLovesWorld yes!

Sometimes I do shut myself in my room and meditate.

Well I broke the rules today and I don’t give a rats a@@.
DD was held up at work asked if I’d go and pick up DGD. I did and I gave her the biggest hugs and kisses in front of everyone at the school.
Not saw any GC since Xmas day. It was blooming amazing.