I totally feel you and have similar feelings. I still go to work as I’m a key worker and my son still goes to school so I feel very lucky that I actually get ‘out’
But during the xmas holidays I found it tough. Most days I felt like I didn’t even like my son and he didn’t like me. He’s 8. We argue so much. I’m finding everything very overwhelming atm ESPECIALLY what to bleeping cook/make every lunch time/evening! I think so many parents must be feeling this way atm, so don’t be too hard on yourself.
Exactly this! I don't like mine much at all at the moment, apart from in rare flashes! He's so lazy and gets on his high horse about everything. I spend my whole day nagging which means he says all I ever do is complain about him - I tell him that if he got off his
a and did his schoolwork and got out of bed on time then I wouldn't have to do it! It's not exactly fun for me! But according to him, for me to say that is blackmail.
JOYS.
And don't get me started on dinner! Last week I swear we had freezer food almost every night...
The work has definitely stepped up this time. I think it’s good as last time I don’t think my kids learnt very much at all with what the school were providing, it was all very casual and not as much guidance. This time it at least feels like it’s keeping their brains active to some extent. Some of the phonics/literacy stuff I don’t really get but my kids seem to understand it fine without much input from me (I just need to be there to help them stay focussed). At first I was overwhelmed, it felt like we were getting so much information, but it’s mostly been doable. My 8yo complains about the simplest of tasks and there have been one or two tears over it. I completely ignore any time tables they send out and do the work at our own pace. Yesterday we were all done by 1.30pm, how ever today we didn’t actually start till 1pm. One day last week one of my kids didn’t get the work submitted till nearly 5pm. But as long as it’s done i’m really not stressing about it, as long as they do something each day. We are muddling through as best we can.
My kids are getting a lot more screen time than I’d like if I’m honest, but I feel like once they’ve done school stuff I want them to be able to chill out. I don’t want to be constantly in their ear telling them to do something else when I’ve just spent the last few hours making them do something that they don’t want to do. Maybe I’m soft but I’m also tired and don’t want to fight with my children.
This makes total sense. All kids are spending more time on screens right now - especially as for a lot of them it's now also their only social contact with friends (for older ones more, I guess). Mine has gone for a walk with a friend a couple of times but other than that they FaceTime while they're playing games etc. That's pretty much all they can do, I suppose?
I agree with you about the timings too. Doesn't matter if it's morning or afternoon, whatever suits your day best. As long as they do something, it doesn't matter!
I'm so over it all. I have 3 primary kids to home-school plus a pre-schooler. They barely get an hour of online teaching a day. On at 9am,11am and 1pm, finished by 20 past the hour.
I actually just received a snotty email from school because my son (who is a very good student) changed his name on Zoom to 'I don't know what to do' during the last session of today. I wasn't aware he had done it but I'm assuming he did this because the crappy 6+ year old Alcatel mobile he is having to do the lessons on overheated again and froze him out just before the end of the lesson, meaning he missed some vital info and didn't get the chance to ask about it. But school says "it doesn't set the right example for our online learning". duck right off.
That sucks! It sounds to me like he got confused and maybe thought he was typing in the chat box? Poor thing, he shouldn't be reprimanded for that. Can the school assist with a tablet or laptop loan? I read today about the government shipping in loads of laptops but I don't know how they're getting to people.
