{"id":2513,"date":"2019-08-18T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mumblog.co.uk\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:55:23","slug":"11-things-only-parents-say-during-the-school-summer-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblog.co.uk\/11-things-only-parents-say-during-the-school-summer-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Things Only Parents Say During The School Summer Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s a long six weeks when the kids are off school. We might have had ideas about fun days at the beach and special family bonding time, but now we\u2019re running out of money (and snacks), and we\u2019ve negotiated so many peace treaties between siblings we\u2019re probably due a Nobel prize. Starting to lose your cool? Made yourself a countdown calendar for the start of term? Maybe you\u2019ve found yourself muttering some of these sentences under your breath whilst internally counting to ten\u2026<\/p>\n
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You travelled a few hundred miles to a holiday apartment in the Med for the big family holiday, only to spend most of the time making up snacks, breaking up sibling fights, yelling at your kids to put their shoes on, and cleaning up poop. You could have stayed at home to do the same thing, and at least there you wouldn\u2019t have everything covered in sand.<\/p>\n
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All that extra vitamin D from the sun has caused your child to have a huge growth spurt. Now all the new school uniform and school shoes you bought at the start of the summer no longer fit and you have to take it all back and start again.<\/p>\n
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Your children have had so many arguments over the summer holidays that you now only interpret their squabbles as background noise to be ignored. Occasionally you might have to intervene if it looks like one might be seriously injured, but otherwise it\u2019s a mini version of the Hunger Games in your house.<\/p>\n
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Can you even really call it the school summer holidays if your child hasn\u2019t spent at least one day getting covered head to toe in sand and needing a hose pipe to remove it all?<\/p>\n