How many of us are on our last legs with the schooling/working thing?

[Anonymous]

I have 3 kids in 3 schools.
Husband is working 15 hours a day from home. I work 8 or 9 from home.

Trying to teach my 7th grader Algebra. Working on projects with my elementary student. Dealing with kid3 who is a young teenage girl and grumpy all the time.
Between my kids they have 26 sports/activity Zoom calls per week. I just counted. I'm about to tell all the travel sports coaches that we'll be back in Sept.
I can't take it anymore.

2.5 more weeks of this hell. Summer looms as hellish too but at least there won't be Zoom calls and Algebra.

[Anonymous]

Zoom call for sports? WTH?

We don’t have any of that. But yes I’m done with teaching my kids what their teacher should be teaching and my moody tween DD who is mad at the world for her life imploding.

[Anonymous]

In same boat. We finish next Friday. Counting down. Doing music on zoom but not sports.

[Anonymous]

yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

[Anonymous]

I've got a 2 and a 5 year old. It feels unending. My job had a decent (great!) policy that parents could take admin leave for child care while working at their division's discretion. That ended and now we have to account for 8 hours a day. That's while I run preschool Zoom sessions, referee playtime, manage meals, and try to keep us from living in our own filth. I know people have it so much worse, but it's slowly wearing me down.

[Anonymous]

Totally losing it. My kids are even that difficult; in fact they have been very compliant and cheerful during this whole thing. But still the kindergartner isn't independent and needs help through all this. The third grader is better, but still has to manage new tech. Both have many zoom calls to keep track of.

Work is busy and doesn't seem to care that people have children to care for at home.

I'm staring down another month of this, after having done it already for two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

What do you even do on a soccer call? I'm confused. Do you set it up on the backyard and someone watches you practice kicks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

What do you even do on a soccer call? I'm confused. Do you set it up on the backyard and someone watches you practice kicks?

The kids do drills in the backyard with their travel team propped up on our fence. Or they analyze matches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

What do you even do on a soccer call? I'm confused. Do you set it up on the backyard and someone watches you practice kicks?

The kids do drills in the backyard with their travel team propped up on our fence. Or they analyze matches.

oops. Sorry for the ridiculous phrasing.
They do drilled in the backyard with their travel team. The use an IPAD propped up on our fence. The travel team is not on the fence.

[Anonymous]

Has any of this made you more sympathetic to what families in poverty experience in non-pandemic times, working multiple jobs, drying to help kids with homework they don’t understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

This is totally ridiculous. Are they trying to justify keeping your money?

[Anonymous]

Your seventh grader can handle pretty much all of that on his own. Trust him. Worry about the younger ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has any of this made you more sympathetic to what families in poverty experience in non-pandemic times, working multiple jobs, drying to help kids with homework they don’t understand?

NP and of course this is valid, as empathy and compassion for others is never a bad thing.

But must EVERY thread turn the OP's question/gripe into an oppression Olympics/"who has it worse" competition???
We can all find others who are worse off, for sure! And we can all point to others (ahem- tone deaf celebrities) who are fairing all of this with ease but think that we are all "in the same boat."
The truth is, we are all in the same storm, but in very different boats. And OP is just expressing that her boat is getting difficult for her to row at the moment. That's all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

This is totally ridiculous. Are they trying to justify keeping your money?

Yes. Of course. And they are also trying to keep the kids engaged and give them some kind of motivation to keep their skills up juuuuuust in case we ever come out the other side of this mess and start playing sports again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, the sports teams are F-ING Killing us with Zoom.

My son's baseball team has 12 scheduled Zoom calls per week.
Daughter #1: 3 soccer calls, 2 for chorus.
Daughter #2: 5 soccer calls
Each kid has 1 piano call each
So 25 total.

This is freaking ridiculous. We've been keeping this up for 6 weeks but I'm losing it.

What do you even do on a soccer call? I'm confused. Do you set it up on the backyard and someone watches you practice kicks?

The kids do drills in the backyard with their travel team propped up on our fence. Or they analyze matches.

Absolutely insane and nothing but a money grab. I mean I get it if that is what the team is propagating and they are big on community but you realize that is a complete racket right?