Spoiler alert. This post is triggering me into a full blown meltdown.
Home mother fracking learning. Am I right ? It is the absolute worst. I am slowly losing the will to live with home learning. Every morning we wake up with a sense of dread. What new way will the schools devise of torturing parents who are completely unqualified to teach their children or to supervise their work? Will they set a million zoom calls that start at the crack of dawn ? Check! Will they set a million tasks that need to be done in 30 seconds ? Check. Will they call the parents up and complain that child is working too fast and not completing the work to their standard ? Check. Check check check check check. What does this do to us as parents ? It makes us feel like rubbish parents. Why can’t I reach my child ? Why won’t my child listen to me? Why won’t my child understand what I’m telling them? Why won’t my child just crack on with their work in a diligent manner ? You know why ? Because it’s all nonsense. This whole set up is nonsense. I’m sure in households up and down the country parents are going into panic mode that they are failing their children and these poor kids are working in a way they have never worked before and their poor little tired minds can’t cope with the change. Parents aren’t qualified teachers. We shouldn’t even be supervising our kids and making sure they do their work right. I don’t want to do that. I have other things to do- like push ups (see Push ups and the Chump). Hence the reason why I decided to send my kids to school in the first place. This whole experience is causing tension and anxiety for parents and kids. And I’m sure teachers too. Surely they are missing their students and surely when they see a child not working to their potential they probably feel as frustrated as the parents and the kids. This is nobody’s fault. It’s just a rubbish situation and I want it to end. I don’t want to have a tense, anxious relationship with my kids. Lockdown is surely an opportunity to bond with our kids and spend time with them doing fun stuff like riding bikes, doing puzzles, baking copious amounts of chocolate cake and watching movies. Instead by 330pm my poor kids are exhausted and frustrated. There is no fun to be had. Home fracking learning. I give up.
