Just a school holiday moan.....!

[*pixachu*]

Anyone else's kids doing their heads in?

On the one hand, I feel sorry for them as they say they are trying to get together with friends but it's just not happening 😞

My son would go to the cinema with his sis but she won't go with him.

You can't exactly arrange playdates when they are this age! (son now 14 and daughter just 12)

So, I woke them up at 10am this morning. By midday they had not surfaced. They have had a drink (and my daughter had a breakfast bar) but it's now 3pm and I have hardly heard a peep out of them. They are not moaning. They are just doing their own thing. My son seems to have lost his appetite.... 

Is this what it's like with teens....?

We are going away for a week at the end of August.... and have a few family days out planned at weekends. They just seem content lolling around but I want them to be happy, and I don't think they are.....

I wish they were back at school already!

[****merlin*****]

i feel duty bound to tell you, once they reach teens, they morph

your sweet little person no longer keeps hours alongside the rest of the family

preferring to surface under the cover of darkness

they no longer eat regualr meals, at regular times, preferring nocturnal foraging, and coupling very inappropriate pairings of food stuffs

your washing basket is no longer a suitable reciptacle for any washing, and now it all  lives under the bed, when asked for said washing you will get 47 items despite only washing yesterday

and as your teen continues to grow, a magical occurance happens, your fridge is NEVER full, overnight it empties, as does your freezer, cupboards and even the backup freezer

your purse is certainly NEVER full ever during teen years

sometimes they congregate in groups

they dont need beds, merely floor space

so a tip from the wise, ask them to remove shoes as they come in

then you dont need to count the mass of bodies/arms & legs to know how many new occupants you have

just count the shoes

i could go on but i think you need a lie down now

seriously, let them get on with it if they seem happy enough

they may just want a few days slobbing around the house

they will soon make poper arrangements with friends when they are bored

[*pixachu*]

Lol.  I think I have always just let them do as they please during the holidays.... but for some reason I feel like they are wasting the time away and that they will regret it in a few weeks. I don't mind them chillaxing but would like it if they saw friends at least a couple of times a week.....

[****merlin*****]

tell them the fence needs painting/garage needs cleaning out/grass needs cut if they are hanging around, you will find they soon have somehing rather urgent to do with friends

[**towery**]

its hot, & the first couple of weeks off

let them relax, set their brains free of school

make meetings with friends in  coolest time of day

stop fretting

[*pixachu*]

I think the reason why I am annoyed with them wasting their days is that I have just heard from a local cyber friend whose daughter has spent the last few years battling cancer... she messaged me that her daughter is very poorly 😞

Which kind of makes me feel like mine should be enjoying the lives they are so fortunate to have. 

My daughter has now gone to play tennis with her dad (home early for once) and my son will be raking leaves. He has a job to do on the front drive as well as it is covered in something that resembles caterpillars that have fallen from the trees out there. But I have ordered a new wide broom which will arrive tomorrow.... 

Righty-o, off to supervise the raking 🙂

[**towery**]

MAkesure you are both covered so the caterpillar stuff doesnt get you, there is something that  is an irritant with  moths

i'll see if i can find a link

[**towery**]

http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/ChemicalsAndPoisons/CompendiumOfChemicalHazards/OakProcessionaryMoths/

thats one of the things i was thinking of

[*pixachu*]

Thanks. They are not caterpillar, they just look like them. They are falling from one of the trees, I don't know what type, but they are about 6 inches long and have an orange stain when they get wet (my poor white car will need a wash later!!)

[**towery**]

a long  catkin type thing?

[fishpieface]

Oh dear Pix, welcome to the world of teenagers!

I just read out your OP to my morphing teenager who laughed and said "yep, that's just

about right".  It's his birthday today and I asked what he wanted to do and he said

nothing, just chill.  So we're just having a nice day doing stuff, but nothing in particular

but he's going out for a meal with his friends later.

We too are worrying about our holiday in a couple of weeks but he's been where we are

going loads of times and knows the area, so if he likes, he can have some mooching

time on his own.  He says he won't come in the sea with me this year, but he usually

says that and ends up in there!

[chickengrandma-2008]

Our sweet chestnut flower things are falling off just now, is that what they are?

[ilove2patch]

Doesn't look like chestnut leaves CG.

[*pixachu*]

They do look like that pic, but slightly orange. We do have horse chestnut trees, could it be them? I don't know what the other trees are, I am such a numpty, and as it's the first time we have lived here at this time of year, it's all new to us.

It seems that nature gives us year round jobs!!

I have struggled the last week to get my kids out of bed before midday. Except on Sunday when we went for a day out at Thorpe Park 🙂

[chickengrandma-2008]

They don't look like chestnut leaves Maggie?   We get chestnuts off it every year.  They're about as big as little pom poms at the moment.  I was going to take a picture (of course) even though I don't know how to put it on this new lappy, but the battery on the camera is flat!

[dr-whos-assistant]

My son's 18 and seems to have turned more and more nocturnal he rarely emerges before 1 oclock and can be heard mouching around into the early hours, he has a part time job at weekends and can get up if its really required..He's going to uni in september so will probably fit nicely into life there. I would just let them be, enjoy the peace and wait until they start moaning they are bored before suggesting things.