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Post by my2apps2 on Aug 6, 2015 19:06:42 GMT
Me! I just simply do not look forward to school starting, and this year I'm dreading it.
Our youngest has Aspergers and he is going into middle school. It was difficult to navigate with my regular Ed. Kids, but this has a whole new set of challenges and I'm just not excited about dealing with puberty, social issues, his lack of motivation to even do his work and the plethora of other issues that are bound to creep up. Don't misunderstand me, I adore my kiddo and everything he brings to our lives, but thinking of him navigating middle school just makes me tired!
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Aug 6, 2015 19:17:05 GMT
Marching band starts for ODS on Monday. Practice is every evening from 5p-9p from now until school starts on the 24th. I'm not ready to give up our summer evenings since I work during the day. Vacation for ODS is pretty much over. He can't miss any practice sessions without hurting his grade. He loves band, but the early end to summer fun rots.
YDS starts Pre-K in a few weeks. That, I am looking forward to. He loves his daycare and the Pre-K is in the same building. He is so excited to go to Miss Maureen's class.
I don't like back to school in August. I started after Labor Day growing up. We had all of August to enjoy the nice weather. I miss that.
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Post by jenkate77 on Aug 6, 2015 19:26:00 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves. I absolutely know how to enjoy my kids, and I DO take care of them myself. Just sometimes I like them in smaller doses. Our high school only has 169 days this year. So they're still with me more than 50% of the time!
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Post by bianca42 on Aug 6, 2015 19:26:38 GMT
My kids go to daycare all summer, so I'm still getting up and leaving the house at the same time...but I have to add packing lunches and getting out the door with everything they need in the morning and homework at night to my days. On the plus side, since my youngest is starting kindergarten, there will be a considerable reduction in my daycare expenditure going from 2 in all day care to 2 in before/after care. I'm thinking about a family membership to the Y with our windfall.
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 6, 2015 19:38:28 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves. This always makes me sad. I love summer, I love the slower pace, I love being around my kids. And I was a stay at home mom who LOVED it when school started again. It had nothing to do with not enjoying the boys or the time we spent together nor was it that I didn't want to take care of my kids. There are lots of reasons that some of us moms appreciated the return of a school year, and not all of them were about being a 'bad mother' based on someone else's definition of what was okay or not. I saw many a heated thread at the old site that debated this topic and for me, it boils down to another salvo in the mommy wars. Thank you! I'm a SAHM (kinda) who is looking forward to school starting next month. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and we've done some fun stuff this summer, but my boys have a 9 year age gap. The oldest has gone to multiple basketball camps (day and overnight) plus wants to sleep in till noon and hang out with friends whenever possible. The youngest thrives on routine and he's a home body. Not to mention we live about an hour away from things like zoos and museums so there is no "spending the morning at the zoo" it's an all day treck, yes we do it (in fact i think we'll do it again next week) but it's not as simple as it seems. I also work from home when I can so trying to squeeze in some work time is tricky at the least. Not to mention dh has traveled at least 3 days/week, every week this summer. We do what we can, but yes, I'm looking forward to a little breathing room once school starts and we get back into our routine. And ftr, I've never argued with a teacher, I help in the classroom (for the younger one, ods would die on the spot at the thought), and I feel teachers are the most underpaid profession around.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Aug 6, 2015 19:41:20 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves.
I am a SAHM mom... and those memes drive me batty. I love having my girls home in the summer... I'd love to homeschool but DH is against it. So we meet in the middle, I help out as much as I can at school and just try to suck it up! The SAHM's who can't wait for school to start drive me crazy!
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 6, 2015 20:08:59 GMT
I'm not looking forward to it. I love summer vacation I am not ready for homework and all the other school things. But it starts again next Wednesday like it or not.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Aug 6, 2015 20:25:22 GMT
Urghhh! In general, there is not much offends me. That being said, I am kinda disappointed someone brought the SAHM thing into this.
This idea of summer being at a slower pace? I don't quite get that. Yeah maybe when the kids were younger and you could put them down for an afternoon nap after a fun morning activity and then call it a day. But I know around here the 8 - 13 yr old crowd is bored. They want to be entertained or go somewhere. We have rules on limiting tv and video game time. Not all of us have pools, live at the beach or lake, have fenced in yards, quiet streets. I feel like the older they are, the more expensive summers get. Oh yeah and not all kids love to be sitting around reading. We generally have almost 10 weeks for summer and it a long period of time.
I personally don't "love" the early mornings getting ready for school, but do like the routine and the kids know what is expected of them each and everyday.
One thing I have learned from 2peas is how different everyone's life is regionally. Not everyone's "picture" looks the same. Don't judge choices I make with my family and I will not with yours.
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Post by Merge on Aug 6, 2015 20:28:53 GMT
Both excited and sad. As a teacher, I'm excited to get back to work (at a new job) but sad for the relaxing days of summer to end.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 6, 2015 20:54:51 GMT
I have mixed feelings about it. DD will be in all day K which starts in a few weeks and I'm a WAHM. I've loved having her home but I still have things I need to do that are much easier to do or focus on when she's not underfoot or making a bunch of noise. She's been going to a summer program that has been a good transition for all of us sending her there for the better part of the day a few days a week.
On the one hand, I haven't worked full time for five years and I miss it. I'm really looking forward to having a little more structure for my own life so I can get back to it and have some kind of schedule. Having the summer relatively off and unregimented is hard because she's a night owl and never wants to go to bed which makes for some really LOOONG days with no downtime for me. On the other hand, I'm so used to having my little sidekick around that I'll definitely miss her when she's in school all day!
I seriously thought about homeschooling but the kid is a social butterfly and I'm really not. It would be exhausting for me to constantly have to be taking her places to get in enough age appropriate social interaction if I had her home with me constantly. She absolutely LOVED pre-k and she loves where she's been going for the summer, so I'm pretty sure she's going to have a blast at school. It's fun hearing about all the stuff she's doing and learning and seeing her thrive in that environment, so I'm excited for her to go because SHE is excited to go.
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Post by lorieann13 on Aug 6, 2015 21:00:58 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves.
I am a SAHM mom... and those memes drive me batty. I love having my girls home in the summer... I'd love to homeschool but DH is against it. So we meet in the middle, I help out as much as I can at school and just try to suck it up! The SAHM's who can't wait for school to start drive me crazy!
Well call me Crazy SAHM then. Like Elaine said, until you walk a day, hell even a few hours, in someone elses life you don't have a right to call us crazy. So I am a crazy sad SAHM because: 1. I get to go shopping without having to worry if my Autistic son will.have a tantrum due to sensory and auditory overload. 2. I get a few hours to myself without having to redirect my autistic sons stimming 3. I can shop as much as I want without having to worry about over stressi.g my son 4. I can hang out with my fellow autism moms and vent and laugh and cry 5. I can do chores and actually get them done 6. I know both my aspie daughter and asd son are with friends, on a schedule, and back to OT and Speech therapy 7. I can go to my appointments without having to worry about who can watch the kids (my asd son has ptsd due to multiple hospital stays and surgeries and can have an attack at the drs office) 8. I can take a nap because caring for TWO medical asd special neds kids is tiring! So dont even call me crazy because I like having a break. Good gosh
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Post by Sarah*H on Aug 6, 2015 21:10:41 GMT
Really not looking forward to it. DS goes to high school, DD goes to middle school and I hate how fast the time is passing. DS is also trying out for the soccer team which means 2 weeks of two a days leading up to the first day of school so effectively, he only has one more week of summer. We have had a great summer but it feels like we just celebrated the last day of school.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 6, 2015 21:13:13 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves. This always makes me sad. I love summer, I love the slower pace, I love being around my kids. And I was a stay at home mom who LOVED it when school started again. It had nothing to do with not enjoying the boys or the time we spent together nor was it that I didn't want to take care of my kids. There are lots of reasons that some of us moms appreciated the return of a school year, and not all of them were about being a 'bad mother' based on someone else's definition of what was okay or not. I saw many a heated thread at the old site that debated this topic and for me, it boils down to another salvo in the mommy wars. Thank you For me there isn't much difference between school and summer schedules. I still go to work Monday thru Friday. I still don't have any more extra vacation time. And my dd is ADHD so she still keeps a semi schedule in the summer for her own peace of mind. Just because I don't mind school starting does not mean I'm a bad mom And school just means a slower pace for us and a nice routine. And I know my ADHD child loves learning and enjoys school.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Aug 6, 2015 21:13:07 GMT
I am a SAHM mom... and those memes drive me batty. I love having my girls home in the summer... I'd love to homeschool but DH is against it. So we meet in the middle, I help out as much as I can at school and just try to suck it up! The SAHM's who can't wait for school to start drive me crazy!
Well call me Crazy SAHM then. Like Elaine said, until you walk a day, hell even a few hours, in someone elses life you don't have a right to call us crazy. So I am a crazy sad SAHM because: 1. I get to go shopping without having to worry if my Autistic son will.have a tantrum due to sensory and auditory overload. 2. I get a few hours to myself without having to redirect my autistic sons stimming 3. I can shop as much as I want without having to worry about over stressi.g my son 4. I can hang out with my fellow autism moms and vent and laugh and cry 5. I can do chores and actually get them done 6. I know both my aspie daughter and asd son are with friends, on a schedule, and back to OT and Speech therapy 7. I can go to my appointments without having to worry about who can watch the kids (my asd son has ptsd due to multiple hospital stays and surgeries and can have an attack at the drs office) 8. I can take a nap because caring for TWO medical asd special neds kids is tiring! So dont even call me crazy because I like having a break. Good gosh
Ok, no need for you to get all defensive! Just saying that I wish "our summer break" was a few weeks longer than it is. I am not ready for my kids to go back, but I can see there are some who clearly are ready for theirs to go back to school!
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Post by Nicole in TX on Aug 6, 2015 21:13:40 GMT
I love the no bell schedule of summer. I also love teaching, and that first day is so much fun. Day two, when the true colors show, is a different story. I just got my class list - 32 first graders including a violent student. I just pray we don't end up on the news. Unbelieveable. Good luck!
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Post by SabrinaP on Aug 6, 2015 21:27:28 GMT
I'm on both sides of the fence.
I love teaching. I love math. I miss my teacher friends and I'm ready for the family to be on a schedule.
I hate the go, go, go of the school year. I hate the homework (kids and mine). I hate the busy weekends with all the sports, shopping, cleaning, and laundry.
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Post by purplebee on Aug 6, 2015 21:29:00 GMT
I'm going back in a couple of weeks, I'm a lunch lady. Not too happy about this, my 16th year in the district. I usually like my job, and hope to work for at least a couple more years but I have a new coworker who doesn't appear to be able to carry her part of the responsibilities, lots of time consuming changes, including to the computer program that I use as Cashier, and a new director. Not looking forward to going back this year at all....but I will try to be positive, at least I do have a job with a nice, long summer vacation!
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Post by maryland on Aug 6, 2015 21:31:25 GMT
Ours starts the end of August and I never look forward to it. It's bad enough that they shortened our summer break by a week (we used to have 3 months break). But I am never ready for the strict schedules, getting up in the dark, activities every night, homework, making lunches, having to get to bed early, etc. Not ready at all!
My oldest starts college 5 hrs. away, so it's even harder this year!
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Aug 6, 2015 21:37:15 GMT
I'm on both sides of the fence. I love teaching. I love math. I miss my teacher friends and I'm ready for the family to be on a schedule. I hate the go, go, go of the school year. I hate the homework (kids and mine). I hate the busy weekends with all the sports, shopping, cleaning, and laundry. All of this! Summer relaxation ends so abruptly!!
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Post by ntsf on Aug 6, 2015 22:18:08 GMT
I work as a nanny and school starts aug 17. so I will have to start work 1-2 hours earlier...means more money, but I get more tired and will be taking my little charge out on more adventures. summer, he came home and mostly collasped.
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Post by elaine on Aug 6, 2015 23:33:17 GMT
I love driving my new Cadillac Escalade. It is a wonderful car - I wish I could spend more driving it.
What drives me nuts is when these people driving 5-10 year old cars complain about bringing them in to the mechanic, complain about break downs, whine that their air conditioners don't work well any more. Clearly, they are too selfish to adore the cars they drive or too lazy to get a better job in order to get a car that they love as much as I love mine. And these are the same people who complain about mechanics. You think that they'd worship the people who take care of their cars, as obviously they don't want to themselves - they'd rather sit around whining about it though.
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Post by theshyone on Aug 6, 2015 23:54:53 GMT
Maybe it's not the right educational setting for him? our youngest is Autistic and would be terribly unhappy in a traditional school setting. I wasn't sure I was up for completely homeschooling him on my own so we set him up with a virtual charter school. He has 2 or 3 virtual classes with a teacher and about 10-15 other students 4 days a week. It's such a great experience for him. He gets the social time of talking with the teacher and other kids, but has that down time he needs to just be by himself. We still do a normal 5 hour school day, but I teach part of the time and he has virtual classes part of the day. It works out great for him. Is he completely thrilled to have to do school, not really, but it does work well for us. I have access to something similiar for grade 8 and up but not for grade 7. With my brain injury I just can't do the homeschool. It has to be on-line and I'm not sure he is capable of that even. We have a year to decide if on-line is the way to go. Choices are extremely limited, the school was very unhelpful last year. It was their viewpoint that mainstreaming him would make every issue disappear, which it didn't. His personality this summer has been adorable, awesome, likeable. Nothing like the school year.
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Post by cannes on Aug 6, 2015 23:57:41 GMT
We're just finishing up the third week of school.
I love having my girls home with me and have so much fun with them being around over the summer. I'm always sad when school starts again!
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Post by theshyone on Aug 7, 2015 0:02:26 GMT
Me! I just simply do not look forward to school starting, and this year I'm dreading it. Our youngest has Aspergers and he is going into middle school. It was difficult to navigate with my regular Ed. Kids, but this has a whole new set of challenges and I'm just not excited about dealing with puberty, social issues, his lack of motivation to even do his work and the plethora of other issues that are bound to creep up. Don't misunderstand me, I adore my kiddo and everything he brings to our lives, but thinking of him navigating middle school just makes me tired! The first year of my sons middle school was exhausting. I was in the office almost every single week. It's so hard on these kiddos. I hope your year goes much better. I hope this year goes much better for us.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 0:03:20 GMT
I was grateful for summer because it's been a tough year for my oldest. By August or mid July I'm usually over it! This year, the 2 oldest will not be in the same school, the 2nd kid doesn't start until 11:00 a.m. and beginning in October MY SON WILL BE IN SCHOOL ALL DAY!!! I wish I could be one of those moms who are NOT looking forward to school starting, but... This is me! It's the most wonderful time of the year!
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Post by elaine on Aug 7, 2015 0:04:49 GMT
Me! I just simply do not look forward to school starting, and this year I'm dreading it. Our youngest has Aspergers and he is going into middle school. It was difficult to navigate with my regular Ed. Kids, but this has a whole new set of challenges and I'm just not excited about dealing with puberty, social issues, his lack of motivation to even do his work and the plethora of other issues that are bound to creep up. Don't misunderstand me, I adore my kiddo and everything he brings to our lives, but thinking of him navigating middle school just makes me tired! While I was incredibly anxious about my older son with high functioning autism going to middle school - it ended up being MUCH better for him than elementary school. He thrived with the academic challenges and loved having more teachers to interact with. He did much better than I ever hoped. Last year was his first year of high school and he did even better! One of his electives was a computer web design class that was almost exclusively juniors and seniors except for my son and a couple of other underclass men. He got an A both semesters. The nice thing about middle and high school for our types of kids is that there are more opportunities for them to participate in and develop their own particular interests. Your son may surprise you! Many of the moms of kids on the spectrum around here, especially those who are higher functioning, are happy with the transition to middle school.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 0:07:06 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves. This always makes me sad. I love summer, I love the slower pace, I love being around my kids. And I was a stay at home mom who LOVED it when school started again. It had nothing to do with not enjoying the boys or the time we spent together nor was it that I didn't want to take care of my kids. There are lots of reasons that some of us moms appreciated the return of a school year, and not all of them were about being a 'bad mother' based on someone else's definition of what was okay or not. I saw many a heated thread at the old site that debated this topic and for me, it boils down to another salvo in the mommy wars.
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Post by theshyone on Aug 7, 2015 0:08:05 GMT
I love driving my new Cadillac Escalade. It is a wonderful car - I wish I could spend more driving it. What drives me nuts is when these people driving 5-10 year old cars complain about bringing them in to the mechanic, complain that hate break downs, whine that hate that their air conditioners don't work well any more. Clearly, they are too selfish to adore the cars they drive or too lazy to get a better job in order to get a car that they love as much as I love mine. And these are the same people who complain about mechanics. You think that they'd worship the people who take care of their cars, as obviously they don't want to themselves - they'd rather sit around whining about it though. Why is this in the school thread Ekaine?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 0:11:20 GMT
Me! Even before I became a teacher I mourned the end of summer. Summer is so relaxing and free. I hate the memes that pop up about this time stating that parents are ready for their kids to go back to school. Especially coming from the SAHMS. It's so sad that they don't know how to enjoy their own children and a slower pace. Not surprising, these are the same mothers that complain throughout the school year about their disagreements with teachers. You'd think they'd be worshipping the people that take care of their kids when they don't want to themselves. You have no clue what life is like in many homes. Be thankful for that, I guess. Because, really, if you spent one summer weekend in my home, living my life, with my kids, you'd want school to start again too. Trust me. You'd be just as "awful" as the moms you are judging in this post.
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Post by elaine on Aug 7, 2015 0:26:21 GMT
I love driving my new Cadillac Escalade. It is a wonderful car - I wish I could spend more driving it. What drives me nuts is when these people driving 5-10 year old cars complain about bringing them in to the mechanic, complain that hate break downs, whine that hate that their air conditioners don't work well any more. Clearly, they are too selfish to adore the cars they drive or too lazy to get a better job in order to get a car that they love as much as I love mine. And these are the same people who complain about mechanics. You think that they'd worship the people who take care of their cars, as obviously they don't want to themselves - they'd rather sit around whining about it though. Why is this in the school thread Ekaine? Because it is an analogy, taking a previous poster's comments and replacing kids and time spent with them with cars and time spent driving. People feel free to bash moms and make unfair inferences about them in these threads every. single. year. Stating the same arguments and judgements about car owners hopefully highlights how incredibly stupid, mean, and snotty those posts are.
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