Keeping child off school because it's their birthday!

ska_lover

alias*alibi wrote: »

Exactly; those in glass houses shouldn't cast the first stone. Fed up with reading all this 'bad parenting' rubbish on here from the holier than thou bunch. I'm taking my DD out of school first week of September because it's cheaper to holiday so she will miss her first week in a new class in the upper school. Shock horror, stone me to death now for my atrocious parenting.

I take my hat off to you for being honest, as I think a there are a minority of people on here talk out of their backsides.

Sometimes I can't believe my eyes. Not just on here though, there is a 'cheap budget meals' facebook page, where people share cheap meal ideas - where earlier on today, a young mother posted some pizzas she had made with her children.

She made the apparently dastardly error of using TINNED hotdogs

OMG the uproar it caused. People started actually swearing at this poor woman. Oh Lordy

ska_lover

Peter333 wrote: »

No, that is too harsh. But you SHOULD have your kids taken off you! :rotfl:

I am joking of course.

Enjoy your holiday!

Peter you always crack me up.

I don't know what it is about your posts, but they do often bring about an end to some hysterical sillyness that goes on

trollopscarletwoman

Schools seems to be going totally off the scale when it comes to a bit of time off.

Its almost as if taking a week off is going to finish your chances in life.

Though I will always support the right to strike, goose and gander and all that.

Besides, due to ill health I didn't attend school for 5 years. Had home tuition 2 hours per day. Sat my 'o' levels in the house. Still went to university.

Peter333

ska_lover wrote: »

I take my hat off to you for being honest, as I think a there are a minority of people on here talk out of their backsides.

Sometimes I can't believe my eyes. Not just on here though, there is a 'cheap budget meals' facebook page, where people share cheap meal ideas - where earlier on today, a young mother posted some pizzas she had made with her children.

She made the apparently dastardly error of using TINNED hotdogs

OMG the uproar it caused. People started actually swearing at this poor woman.

Oh dear LOL. We have them sometimes AND wait-for-it........ POT NOODLES! :rotfl:

I agree - some people can be very judgemental and rather critical of others, in all kinds of ways: from what they eat, to what they read, and where they go on holiday to what they watch on tv, and the newspaper they read.

I know someone who thinks that they are a better class than people who watch Big Brother and TOWIE. She thinks only CHAVS watch this kind of tv (her words not mine, sorry...)

SO judgemental!

Live and let live is what I say.

Peter333

ska_lover wrote: »

Peter you always crack me up.

I don't know what it is about your posts, but they do often bring about an end to some hysterical sillyness that goes on

Thank you Ska Lover. If I bring a smile to someone's face, that makes my day.

Buzzybee90

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Other than my cousin it's not something I've ever thought people did, taking a single day off seems rather unusual to me. That said if someone took a day off on it's own how do people know the reason as I never knew when birthdays were?

We both do it, take day off for anniversary too. My boyfriend takes single days often, for anything from football to just fancying it. That's what it's there for

alias*alibi

Thanks peter333 and ska lover; some people on this thread and other MSE threads should be embarrassed and ashamed of their finger pointing and snide remarks. At the end of the day we all have to wipe our own backsides so they need to get a life. Sad individuals who are actually no better than bullies.

PS my daughter loves super noodles, pot noodles and processed ham and is probably healthier, fitter and slimmer than most kids of the masses on here; not that they would ever admit that of course.

ska_lover

Peter333 wrote: »

Oh dear LOL. We have them sometimes AND wait-for-it........ POT NOODLES! :rotfl:

I agree - some people can be very judgemental and rather critical of others, in all kinds of ways: from what they eat, to what they read, and where they go on holiday to what they watch on tv, and the newspaper they read.

I know someone who thinks that they are a better class than people who watch Big Brother and TOWIE. She thinks only CHAVS watch this kind of tv (her words not mine, sorry...)

SO judgemental!

Live and let live is what I say.

I agree, live and let live

Newpaper snobbery that reminds me of something

Last week, Morrisons did a £5 voucher in the sun newspaper - and on this facebook forum, 99% of people were quick to add that they had quickly ripped the voucher out of the newspaper and averted their eyes as they aren't sun readers - and threw the paper in the bin without casting their eyes on it as they felt the words were 'dumbed down' for the audience

I read mine. Unfortunately Rolf Harris's was in the news that day, and his fizzog put me off my pot noodle hahaha. I would read any - esp if they have a voucher in them haha

Buzzybee90

alias*alibi wrote: »

Exactly; those in glass houses shouldn't cast the first stone. Fed up with reading all this 'bad parenting' rubbish on here from the holier than thou bunch. I'm taking my DD out of school first week of September because it's cheaper to holiday so she will miss her first week in a new class in the upper school. Shock horror, stone me to death now for my atrocious parenting.

I think the school stuff comes mainly from the teachers on here. They're teachers at the end of the day, not the parents.

moomoomama27

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

I think the school stuff comes mainly from the teachers on here. They're teachers at the end of the day, not the parents.

You can be both you know!