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School holidays....More or less relaxed?
Topic Started: Jul 23 2006, 06:50 AM (298 Views)
Minxy
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When it comes to school holidays are you more or less relaxed about havinmg the kids home.


Personally I like having them home and I appreciate not having to do the school run every morning which takes over an hour.

At least if they are at home I know they are safe.
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I like the kids being at home. (Just as well as they've been home now for 2 months and the school hasn't even broken up yet ;wall: )

Trouble is the kids themselves are ready to go back now - its gonna be a long summer holiday :lol:
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I think your right, school seams such a trial at the moment I will be nice for a break from that. But I find it difficult to plan things in and make sure we do stuff together. All my 2 teanage girls want to do is watch TV.

Im feeling really low at the moment not sure if its because of the holidays or just that lots of stuff keeps happening at the moment.
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I love having my kids home. Trouble is it costs a bloody fortune. There's all the extra food and drinks, there's the entertainment, and the running around delivering them to one friend or another.

Trouble is, my daughter is nearly 15 and wants to be hanging out with her mates or going to the pictures or bowling etc etc, my son wants his mates round on the PC, and Adam just wants to stay home and rule the roost!!

As being on holiday is such a change in his routine, i am really having to stand firm with him and lay the boundaries again!! I feel like a right old dragon, but he always behaves better if he knows the boundaries and just how far he can push them!! It is so hard trying to let each of them have their own interests, and is flipping hard trying to arrange drop off/pick up etc... Am sure i'm not alone. However, i have always been used to working and only having the odd week off to be with the kids. Last summer was dreadful for us because that's when my mum was taken poorly, and the summer flew by with caring for mum and Adam now living with us.

Whatever happens for all of us, it is great to know that all of you wonderful people here are in the same boat, and are at the end of the line or available on here.

Thank you all, I look forward to our "Summer holidays" together!!!

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Jul 23 2006, 06:50 AM
When it comes to school holidays are you more or less relaxed about havinmg the kids home.


Personally I like having them home and I appreciate not having to do the school run every morning which takes over an hour.

At least if they are at home I know they are safe.

you sound like me i know lewis is safe now for next 6 weeks

do find it better the kids are more relaxed too
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I look forward to the holidays, partly because I don't feel I quite have to run the house with the usual military precision to process everyone through the bathroom, get ready in time and off on their respective buses and so on. Also I feel calmer because my older to who get sooo much homework/coursework, will have a bit of the pressure taken off the. This summer, for the first time, Jen is doing various activities. At the mo she is with her Auntie for a week then later on she goes on a GUIDE CAMP for FIVE DAYS! which I can't quite believe is happening, and still worry how she and they will manage, but I am happy she has so much going on to occupy her. I normally am her soul mate and she demand attention so much of the time that to be honest I normally am on my knees about 3 weeks into the hols, but hopefully this time will be different. Like others here, I am glad that if needs be I can come on line and get support from you guys, and I wish I had known about you all last year! ghug
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Summer hols are a bit of both but it usually ends with me going totaly insane by the end of it , there arent many place Amy enjoys going ,she hates going away on holiday so we dont do that either but she gets bored in the house too aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh !! plus pmt is kicking off terribly again she is a week late and for the whole week she has been a total misery on one hand i understand but on the other hand i never tried to smash my moms face in on her birthday either :rolleyes: ,yes she went into meltdown on my birthday and i have the face to show for it anyway back to the point ,i love the fact i dont have to race around to get them ready for school but dealing with Amy 24/7 is energy sapping and life draining especially with the mood she has been in lately so expect for me to go off the rails round about the five week mark :blink:
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Oh Debs, some birthday huh?

I love school hols. I used to hate them with a vengeance when James was little, but as he got older, and I learned to cope better, I actually now prefer having the kids at home.

Having said that, Amy's hormones are all over the place at the moment, and although she is only coming up for 11, I fear she may start her periods any time now! Even when we went to see the doctor with James today, she spent the whole time trying her hardest to wind James up, and it was like watching a coiled spring waiting to snap! :rant: At least the doctor also saw what I have to put up with. Jees.

The holidays are expensive, but I do enjoy spending time with the kids, after all, I didn't bring them into the world to allow someone else to spend all day with them, and for me to have them at the end of the day when they are tired and fed up. School seem to get the best of my kids! :rolleyes:
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School seem to get the best of my kids
I know what you mean!!!

I do love having my kids around - and Adam!!
I have always thought that "nobody else is going to look after my kids as that isn't why i had them", it's just that now we have our little addition to our family, i try so hard to encourage my own children to have their own lives so that they can have a break from Adam. That sounds horrible. We do love Adam and i wouldn't have it any other way, but i still have to consider my children who's lives changed dramatically a year ago. I hope i am doing my best for all 3 of them, but nobody is perfect.

For all the hassle of yesterday, Adam has woken in a far better mood, and didn't try waking anybody up. I even got him to have a small bowl of cereal - which is very unheard of!! I can't be all that bad can i?

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no u r not bad karen you do an excellent job my school hols r up and down they r worse this year tho because i cant trust dar to leave him at home and yet i have to fight with him to get him to come out with us he has become such a recluse and it doesnt matter where we r going he just doesnt want to go out wants to stay in constantly ive been telling him all week that we will proberly be going to blaise castle on friday he dont want to go ive told him he got to so will keep telling him about it so its not such a big battle on friday i cant stay in with him i have the other 3 to think of aswell plus i dont want dar being a recluse
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had a fight with him this morning as he had to come with me to take kels to the unit which is a 30 mile round trip he put a hole in his bedroom door he did go tho with a fight he had no choice gota get kels again in a mo so another fight coming never mind eh
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i like not getting up at 7 but steves 13 now and wants to be with his mates up my mums all the time and i feel like im putting on her,i take the school holidays a week at a time instead of seeing it as a big 7 week block,sort of seems easier to deal with!!going to our local prom tomorrow with a picnic,try to tire them out is my motto for the holidays!!
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i have trouble coping so ignore me while i have a moan!!
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School seem to get the best of my kids
I know what you mean!!!



Yep, hurts doesn't it!
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Olivia is always better when she hasnt got the anxiety of school. She will check every night and morning "no school?" we are reducing one of her seizure meds and introducing another one over the summer. So far with the reduction of the gabapentin she has been really dreamy and spaced out with only a few meltdowns. I like having her home with me. We tend to have trips out to places that are quiet and do not have many people around. Not sure what she will be like at Flamingo land on the 12th August. She doesnt like the rides but loves the zoo so I know we will spend most ofthe time in that area! :rolleyes:
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