Essential workers send their kids to school... so mothering should be an essential "job" especially if you have young ones at home to look after (aka doing your "job") it's difficult to teach, maintain house and care for under 5s all at once. The teaching of school aged children takes up a big chunk of the day.

Why can't you take them to the shops?

Because she will be judged for taking them with her...I had my youngest in a carrier- literally strapped to my body so he couldn't touch anything or move anywhere- and had two people tell me to leave him home next time. I already left my (VERY responsible) ten year old at home, which I'm sure I will also get judged for) but we had NO loo paper and my local supermarkets only have it out in the morning. My husband works from 5am so I have no other option than to go early and take him

A lot of places are offering over the phone counselling services as well as GPs doing over the phone consultations. Try to get a mental health plan in place for yourself and get some help. Your post concerns me and you need to reach out now before you get worse.

I take my 4 year old if we have to go, we have to go it's not like you can ask anyone to mind them & we have to eat.

I took 2 of mine to the Post Office the other day, and wasnt allowed entry as we were a group of 3. Also so true about the judgement in supermarkets.

^ which state are you in?

Mine is the post office comment and i am in Perth

Well depending the state..Victoria it's essential workers only.

Actually, it’s not just for essential workers. Vulnerable children are also included. Given the desperation in this post, struggling mental health and no access to appropriate technology OP could easily argue her children are in a vulnerable situation and will fall too far behind with their school work.

^^^exactly this.

If I only I knew who this mother was ... if near enough I would take her a care package and help her look into local assistance on offer in the area

What happens if all the teachers took your advice??? Then you’d have to look after your own kids, which is what you should be doing because it’s your damn job.

Teachers everywhere are taking my advice! In fact teachers over 60 are studying home!

Agree. This person needs to harden the F up.

I don’t know about anyone else but I usually have my kids out of the house at least every second day over holidays. Yes I’m still supervising but a museum, beach, park, play dates or other ways to amuse them usually keeps us all sane. The last few weeks have made that impossible and while I’m coping fine with my children I can understand how some people might be struggling not being able to do their usual activities. Especially working parents who need to send their children to vacation care usually.

Oh, yes they will!

My bestie is a principal of a small school.
She has gone out of her way to accomodate for kids still attending.
Not everyone is judging

Yes, but you are making someone else do your work. I don’t see the nurses offloading their job to someone else because they are essential workers LOL . Pretty shitty logic.

Ffs there’s people in here that are clearly struggling. Comments like this is making ‘ a dick move’
Support each other!!!
Op the first thing my kids school asked is how I am coping at home! Before asking how the kids were or even bringing up the topic of homeschool.
The teacher told me straight up that if I am not coping I could still send the kids to school. She told me the children would work from computers and all the social distancing precautions would be taken and there would be teachers aides to assist the children with their online learning. My kids do really well at school and I don’t believe the school would have any specific reason to think I was not coping. Speaking to other parents At our school they were all asked the same.

Speak to your school. There’s no point asking a bunch of judgmental bitches on here for their opinions. You know what is best for you and your family.

Sending you lots of hugs.

That should be reward system.
Once they see they are earning something it may change their behaviour. Also they lose points for aeguing or fighting or annoying one another. It will teach them how to behave :-) follow rules and also respect rules. Whilst they earn something for not fighting etc for helping clear up their stuff and being good.

But 6000 is nothing.. it’s great, but not going to cover anything

I know I have 2GB data a month homeschooling online will wipe that out but i cant afford more. Literally since im a single mum my income goes to rent bills food etc i dont have $ for home internet thats a luxury item. Lol but if a kids learning will struggle being home then send them. We are not trained teachers our kids will not learn from us with home distractions around. Ive tried homeschooling the isolation was worse for kids but the gov sont care.

I don’t think it would be a bad idea to let the kids sit in front of the tv all day just so you can have some peace. You need to keep your sanity.