At the risk of getting ousted from tattle, yes, she worded it hideously, and made it so much more woe is me than necessary, but I do see where she's coming from. As a stay at home parent, my daughter couldn't go to school. We live a few doors down from her school, and there are a massive number of keyworker kids in her class. She was one of a small handful from her class that couldn't go to school. It absolutely broke my heart to tell my (at the time) 5yr old that she couldn't be with her friends because my job is to stay home to look after her baby brother. Her upset everyday that "my friends are being friends without me" was awful, so I was relieved that this time round we could walk in together with her friends.