{"id":2834,"date":"2020-05-06T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mumblog.co.uk\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:02:54","slug":"ten-things-parents-in-lockdown-can-all-agree-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblog.co.uk\/ten-things-parents-in-lockdown-can-all-agree-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things Parents In Lockdown Can All Agree On"},"content":{"rendered":"
Raising children is hard. We all know that, right? Well, now it\u2019s even harder, thanks to coronavirus and the lockdown. Suddenly hundreds of thousands of parents around the world have found themselves faced with the prospect of home-schooling their children for the foreseeable future and most of us are not exactly thrilled with the idea.<\/p>\n
We had got used to someone else taking the load off us for a few hours each day and dealing with the hard questions like, \u201cWhy is the sky blue?\u201d and \u201cWho is your favourite Roblox character?\u201d At weekends, we could shift them onto play dates or take them to the park or a softplay centre to burn off that excess energy and it was amazing. Now we\u2019re stuck with them 24\/7 with no end in sight.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get us wrong. We love our little darlings. Truly, we do. And, there is no doubt that we will cherish many of moments that arise in lockdown. But there comes a point, normally just before tea time when you\u2019ve heard the words \u201che\u2019s a poo-poo head\u201d for the 50th time, when we become pretty desperate for a return to normality.<\/p>\n
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Your kids only had breakfast an hour ago and they\u2019re already asking for snacks. In fact, your daily schedule mostly revolves around snacks. Every activity ends with the words, \u201cCan I have a snack?\u201d You\u2019re pretty sure that they don\u2019t have this many snacks in school so you try and limit them as much as possible but, after three weeks in lockdown, endless requests have worn you down and you eventually start giving them a snack just so you can have five minutes peace to prepare more snacks.<\/p>\n
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By now we\u2019re all aware of the importance of hand hygiene and this has really hammered home just how grim our children are. Whilst all the grown-ups are scrubbing their hands raw, children are picking up sticks off the ground and licking them. Whilst grown-ups are fighting over the last hand sanitiser in the shops, children are licking windows. Whilst grown-ups are disinfecting the windows with Dettol, children are licking each other. Kids are basically little plague-spreaders.<\/p>\n