I really needed this today. Three months trying to work (a bit!) from home with a toddler and a 5-year-old with huge separation anxiety issues. Still 10 days until school starts here, but my mental health is nowhere to be found. And my son will start crying at school drop-off again. After two years at the same school, with the same classmates and the same teacher. This too shall pass, but I wonder when. Thanks for your honesty! :)
I resonate so much with this. I’m tired of being a beleaguered activities director. We live in Arizona where summer is the ever living worst. It’s too hot for outdoor parks, and all the indoor stuff for kids costs money and/or is a church. Sure, we can swim but monsoon season (also during summer) complicates that. My daughter is also neurodivergent, which precludes a lot of summer camps. My kid blessedly had year-round preschool with only two-week winter and summer breaks. But now she’s older, we’re facing down months to fill. And I can’t complain about it without getting some dumb little guilt trip.
All the camps and activities shut down here by the 2nd week of August so we always leave the last two weeks of August for everyone’s sanity! It’s still exhausting but at least exhausting in a different location?
I really needed this today. Three months trying to work (a bit!) from home with a toddler and a 5-year-old with huge separation anxiety issues. Still 10 days until school starts here, but my mental health is nowhere to be found. And my son will start crying at school drop-off again. After two years at the same school, with the same classmates and the same teacher. This too shall pass, but I wonder when. Thanks for your honesty! :)
Every mom I know is mentally at their worst the last week of August.
I resonate so much with this. I’m tired of being a beleaguered activities director. We live in Arizona where summer is the ever living worst. It’s too hot for outdoor parks, and all the indoor stuff for kids costs money and/or is a church. Sure, we can swim but monsoon season (also during summer) complicates that. My daughter is also neurodivergent, which precludes a lot of summer camps. My kid blessedly had year-round preschool with only two-week winter and summer breaks. But now she’s older, we’re facing down months to fill. And I can’t complain about it without getting some dumb little guilt trip.
It's just TOO LONG! I know the kids and teachers all need the break, but two months flat should be just fine.
All the camps and activities shut down here by the 2nd week of August so we always leave the last two weeks of August for everyone’s sanity! It’s still exhausting but at least exhausting in a different location?
No matter how far I make it into the summer feeling really good, those last two weeks just kill me!