Ok, I don't get it. School starts back and the weather gets warm...
So, here we go again. Back to those happy days of endless paperwork to sign/fill in/remember to return by specified date; back to newsletters informing us parents how rubbish we all are at everything; back to packing a lunch for your child and wondering if it'll end up being inspected by a government nutritionist (not to mention whether your child will actually eat it) and back to trolling up and down to school wondering if your car will get impounded even though you don't think you're breaking any laws and every Volvo XC90/BMW X5/Landcruiser/Pajero etc seems to be taking up coach-sized spaces in the entire vicinity of the school gates.
Is it me, or am I the only person who actually enjoys being free of all this during the summer holidays?
And now, the second child has started too. After 9 years of having small children accompany me everywhere I go, I am now the mother of two kids at school. And it feels pretty wierd, too. I haven't adjusted yet. Like my looming 40th birthday (pause to sob and enter new phase of denial), I'm taking the journey by the scenic route, so to speak.
Not that I have a lot of choice. Not only is our school the only school I know of that has no before or after-school clubs, it's also the only one that stretches out the starting school bit for a whole term. More specifically, I drop both kids off for 9 (in the alloted ten-minute window), go back at 12 for the youngest and then go back at 3.15 for the eldest. And I do this from September to December. And the government want more mothers to work. And that's without the 13-odd weeks you need to cover the school holidays.
Yeah, I know loads of jobs outside working in a school that will accommodate that. Or pay me enough to afford someone else to do it. That's why I'm an under-the-tax-limit worker from home.
Happy New Term, Gordon. And thanks.
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My kids are adults now, I'm SO HAPPY to say! I loved them as toddlers, I loved them as teenagers, but school nearly crippled all of us.
I did several 'fits into school hours' jobs and no, they don't grow on trees, and no, they don't pay enough to make it worth while until your kids are old enough to get themselves home and let themselves in and be fine for a couple of hours alone in the house.
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