Dh and I like to joke about the price of downtime w/our 3 & 6 yr old. Like when they get quiet and we let them do whatever they're doing just so we can sit for a minute.
Examples include: Playing w/mommy's makeup, rearranging/dumping just about everything in the house, an inch of water on the floor during a bath, scribbling w/Sharpies on the table.
Sometimes the price is steep b/c we know we're just going to have to clean up the mess (including the kids themselves). But it's so worth it for a minute to sit undisturbed.
It's the 5th school day in a row where H is at work and the kids don't listen to me as well, DD is being slow and whiny and only 12 hours to go til H gets home.
ETA: Guys, I know I'm a broken record, but the amount of anger I feel at colleagues without children at home is almost unmeasurable. I am hanging on by the barest of threads.
I feel you. A couple of my co-workers have kids who are still going to daycare and my jealousy has reached rage levels sometimes.
Dh and I like to joke about the price of downtime w/our 3 & 6 yr old. Like when they get quiet and we let them do whatever they're doing just so we can sit for a minute.
Examples include: Playing w/mommy's makeup, rearranging/dumping just about everything in the house, an inch of water on the floor during a bath, scribbling w/Sharpies on the table.
Sometimes the price is steep b/c we know we're just going to have to clean up the mess (including the kids themselves). But it's so worth it for a minute to sit undisturbed.
100% my kids have watched way more youtube and TV shows, though mine are 8 and 11 so other than slime we don't have as many destructive things happening.
As far as the birth rate goes, I think there are going to be more first babies born. People who are already dealing with a child of any age home 24/7 will be doubling and tripling up on birth control.
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or just abstaining. My sex drive took a nose dive. All this together time, working from home, and watching kids is exhausting and a major turnoff!
It's the 5th school day in a row where H is at work and the kids don't listen to me as well, DD is being slow and whiny and only 12 hours to go til H gets home.
ETA: Guys, I know I'm a broken record, but the amount of anger I feel at colleagues without children at home is almost unmeasurable. I am hanging on by the barest of threads.
i feel the same way. A few days ago, I texted a fellow mom, “I hate anyone who doesn’t have young kids.”
I feel a tinge of this for people w/a nanny helping them.
one of my nieces and one of my nephews might have it their symptoms aren't serious yet but time will tell. Hospital said they were too young to be tested, which I didn't know was a thing....
As far as the birth rate goes, I think there are going to be more first babies born. People who are already dealing with a child of any age home 24/7 will be doubling and tripling up on birth control.
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or just abstaining. My sex drive took a nose dive. All this together time, working from home, and watching kids is exhausting and a major turnoff!
As far as the birth rate goes, I think there are going to be more first babies born. People who are already dealing with a child of any age home 24/7 will be doubling and tripling up on birth control.
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or just abstaining. My sex drive took a nose dive. All this together time, working from home, and watching kids is exhausting and a major turnoff!
YES. I spend most of the day with a child and/or a dog on top of me. I already had a talk with DD about having to "recharge my snuggler." By bedtime, I just want to be alone.
I don't know how I can help, but honestly, if anyone needs any official teaching help, I'm happy to do it. Just wanted to put it out there. I can video chat with kids or help you with assignments...I'm good with all stuff through middle school and high school English and when it comes to higher level stuff, DH is great with science, math, and tech.
The sophomore is *struggling* today. She misses her friends, and I think she actually misses her teachers. I am starting to miss my students. My senior advisory group never got to do their service project, so I sent an email to them today with some ideas to do now. It made me sad to think I won't get to hand them their diplomas or see them one last time all together. I also feel sort of useless as a teacher right now. I did a video meeting with two girls yesterday to help them with an assignment and it felt so good. My own kids are very much "BACK UP OFF ME, MOM" and I don't know what to do with myself.
My H is still in the “oh, shut the tv off, we need to something *enriching*” stage, whenever I’m on shift for watching DD while he works. Sometimes she’s just being a cranky lunatic and I put on some clips of Sesame Street or animal videos to get her to sit still and be quiet for a few minutes.
Yes, of course I don’t just want to stick her in front of a tv all day. But for fuck’s sake, guy, sometimes I just want 10 minutes to hear myself think.
Post by suburbanzookeeper on Mar 31, 2020 11:53:46 GMT -5
Our district is making suggestions but isn't grading anything. My 4th grader is doing her assigned work from her teacher team every day. It's taking her less than 2 hours, including 30 minutes of reading. My son's 1st teacher left the country and gave us some suggestions but nothing really structured. I'm giving him about 80-90 minutes between writing, spelling words, reading, language arts, and math but it feels really mild in comparison with my friends kids are doing 4-6+ hours. I did independent study for high school and it feels very similar in terms of time commitment.
My heart hurts for those of you with younger kids - I've worked from home since before I had my kids and I remember what an absolute struggle it was when they were younger.
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
I'm going to be that awful person who braggs for a mintue. And I'm spoiler tagging because I know a lot of you are struggline with distance learning, so feel free to skip this.
This is our second day of distance learning and B (8) is taking to it like a duck to water. Shes been able to focus on it yesterday and today all morning. I'm letting her manager her time and classes as she sees fit, though I gave her some basic guidelines she has to follow (like checking classwork first, no more than 30 min on each app until shes worked on them all, then if she has time until lunch she can go back to one or do something different). Shes most thrilled that she can use duolingo to learn Spanish and that Scratch is on her approved list. I hope she keeps it up. A, however, is not happy her sister is paying attention to something else.
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
Does her distrct subscribe to any online learning things? I had to go hunt them down since theyre werent obvious how to access from home.
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
Yeah we have this problem but the biggest issue for us is that everything is in a different format than she is used to. She is used to doing IXL and Prodigy but the district curriculum is doing things differently. They have to watch a video that is usually boring and from someone they don't know. Then read an article. Then apply it but she didn't learn anything from it because it's not engaging. I think if they were using programs the kids were already used to it would go easier. The learning comes straight from the district though and not the teachers. It makes it weird for everyone.
DD's teachers have been amazing. Personalized emails a few times a week. Fun Zoom meetings. Today they all played a scavenger hunt and DD was grinning from ear to ear. It's just strange.
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
We do a trade off - she does her review, she gets to watch the zoo talk videos (which usually end up with us going down some internet rabbit hole of more information or trying to find live cams of that animal in a different zoo). Unfortunately for my 4th grader, they were gearing up to prep for just state testing so they were done for the year essentially on new content.
Join me to the perpetual chorus of parents of young kids barely hanging in there. At the moment, my 6 year old is doing okay. He's definitely stir-crazy and needs to run around outside, but it's manageable. The distance-learning stuff from his school continues to make me insane, but I've decided to do the best I can (for which the bar is low) and otherwise they can go fuck themselves.
I'm more worried about my 3yo. He has been talking more and more about missing his friends and teachers. His teacher did a circle time on Zoom this morning and he cried when it was time to say goodbye. He's such a social little guy and loves school so much. He also doesn't really understand what's going on, although it helps that when we do Zoom he can see that everyone is at their houses, not just him. He's also started having trouble sleeping through the night, which is not like him at all. He says he has bad dreams or his stomach hurts. I know he's stressed out.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Mar 31, 2020 13:32:11 GMT -5
DD has been doing ballet through community ed for a while - they're doing a 4-week class with zoom starting in a little over a week and I can't wait. 🙂🙂🙂
Join me to the perpetual chorus of parents of young kids barely hanging in there. At the moment, my 6 year old is doing okay. He's definitely stir-crazy and needs to run around outside, but it's manageable. The distance-learning stuff from his school continues to make me insane, but I've decided to do the best I can (for which the bar is low) and otherwise they can go fuck themselves.
I'm more worried about my 3yo. He has been talking more and more about missing his friends and teachers. His teacher did a circle time on Zoom this morning and he cried when it was time to say goodbye. He's such a social little guy and loves school so much. He also doesn't really understand what's going on, although it helps that when we do Zoom he can see that everyone is at their houses, not just him. He's also started having trouble sleeping through the night, which is not like him at all. He says he has bad dreams or his stomach hurts. I know he's stressed out.
My 3 yr old is struggling too. Change ramps up her anxiety and we can’t explain it to her
Join me to the perpetual chorus of parents of young kids barely hanging in there. At the moment, my 6 year old is doing okay. He's definitely stir-crazy and needs to run around outside, but it's manageable. The distance-learning stuff from his school continues to make me insane, but I've decided to do the best I can (for which the bar is low) and otherwise they can go fuck themselves.
I'm more worried about my 3yo. He has been talking more and more about missing his friends and teachers. His teacher did a circle time on Zoom this morning and he cried when it was time to say goodbye. He's such a social little guy and loves school so much. He also doesn't really understand what's going on, although it helps that when we do Zoom he can see that everyone is at their houses, not just him. He's also started having trouble sleeping through the night, which is not like him at all. He says he has bad dreams or his stomach hurts. I know he's stressed out.
My 3 yr old is struggling too. Change ramps up her anxiety and we can’t explain it to her
It doesn't help that he's a balls-to-the-wall-honeybadger on his best day, lol. He kicked me in the face on Sunday.
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
My sister suggested looking at the boards for the grade ahead
My 2nd grader is having a rough time with what the school is putting out because it's review and she doesn't want to work on things she already knows, uggh.
My sister suggested looking at the boards for the grade ahead
I feel like my kid's district is the only one not doing anything online. No schoolwork online, no fun meetings, nothing.
We got a barrage of emails over the weekend to printout and we have to do 2 activities a day.
Our school has not started any online learning. Next week is still the planned spring break and we were told online learning would start on the 16th. Right now they just have packets from the school.
Honestly I'm not looking forward to the online stuff. With DH and I working from home we only have one computer for both kids, so they can't do things at the same time. Plus DS hates school and has ADHD and diagnosed conduct issues, so I can't imagine having to constantly refocus him while dealing with his attitude/anger on top of trying to work. I am praying it will go better than I think.
I have a 4 year old and a 12 month old (who just had 12 month vaccines this morning). I'm going bananas. Today is a TV all day kind of day.
E1 is already bored with the stuff for preK and kindergarten on Starfall (which his school uses). He's been working on the math stuff for 1st grade (his choice) and only struggling a little bit.
And my governor just closed all schools until May 4.
I have a quiz tonight and an exam on Thursday. Not sure when I'm going to study.
I had 3 meetings back to back today, so I bribed my kids (3 and 5) with the promise of ice cream to not interrupt me during them. It worked like a charm - they played together and watched tv with no interrupting and minimal fighting. So, I guess that's my new strategy lol.