School is officially back. Well, in eight hours to be precise, but still.. I'm excited! I wonder how other families get through the Christmas holidays. Are they like me.. silently wishing the plague onto the government for coming up with the preposterous idea that kids should be home for 6 weeks in the middle of summer? Or do they jump for joy at the glorious sleep ins? Wouldn't life be bliss if School and holidays worked with us and not against us?
- School should start at 11am, not 8.30am. This would allow for a delicious sleep in, well rested kids and a happy mother. They could still have their seven hours of education, we would just have to change pickup time to 6pm. I could work with that very easily.
- Ditch the homework. Nobody told us when we got pregnant that we would have to spend a minimum of 5 nights a week, 40 weeks a year, over twelve years per child to fight about homework. At the very least we parents should have an alcohol allowance of, say, a bottle of wine per week. Homework should be done at school and should be called schoolwork.
- Cut back the holidays. I know teachers have a hard job.. but they kinda chose that profession themselves, it's nothing I would put my hand up for! Hell, I don't even put my hand up for any type of job that involves the supervision of kids. I'm not that nuts. If I wanted 20 kids I would have had 20 kids. They get enough perks with their jobs.. 2 weeks off every 2.5 months, with a 6 week break over Christmas, weekends off, public holidays off, and that very convenient Student Free Day that happens to occur right before a public holiday with a weekend in between.
- Ditch the detentions. I know my kid is a little shit, but I have a Hair Appointment at 3.15pm and nobody consulted me about this. My kids are my kids in my time.. although they would probably much rather be in detention than listen to Mrs Snippity-Snip gossip about the Smiths & Joneses ironing procedures. Come to think of it, I shouldn't have told them I had a hair appointment. Probably why the little tigers got themselves detentions to start with...
- Send notes home a minimum of 2 days before a Class Party. In a locked safe the size of a breadbin. This is the only way we will know there are notes. My child does not volunteer notes, especially when they are bright red and addressed to me. I do not dare stick my hands down to the bottom of that bag for anything. It would be appreciated if we werent told at 8.59pm at night by the children there is a class party in the morning and that they have volunteered me to cook a healthy cake. Last time they did this all I had in the house was some milky ways, smarties, and tiny teddies. Hardly healthy. I made those little milky way cars ..so cute. The teacher told me it wasn't healthy... so I told him the chocolates were tiny.. and moderation is healthy. I got away with it.
Now of course I love my darling little vipers, with all of my heart, and want to spend as much time with them as possible.. but after a holidays full of fighting and mothers in laws visiting, Christmas madness and 40 degree weather I am ready to get myself a coffee & some timtams (minus the timtams, I hate chocolate) a good book and a hammock before the after school homework/tea/bath routine starts all too soon..... aren't they just adorable when they're asleep?
written exclusively by Briohazard 30th January 2012
written exclusively by Briohazard 30th January 2012
This post first appeared on Tantrums Of A Self Confessed Bitch, please read the originial post: here
