As a homeschooling mom, I have to say that I really, really dislike school holidays!  And that is probably an understatement!

Why? You may ask since it does not concern me. But it does concern me. It is amazing what ruckus the let-loose public school children get up to every time the school holidays roll around. They annoy me to no end with their screaming and screeching from mid-day to late at night.

They do this day-after-day till the school hols are over! Sometimes in their homes but usually downstairs in the void deck.

And I often wonder - where are the parents/guardians? Do they know where their children are? And why do they let them out so late at night?

Yes, I understand that children need to let off steam and work out their nervous energy - hey! I have 6 children, I should know!  But there's obviously no thought given to those who live in the surrounding blocks. If they did it in the playground/badminton court area, I can understand. People who chose to buy flats there do know that such sounds are part of the deal. But I don't live near the playground/badminton courts!

And what about letting them lose at night - probably unsupervised? Well, if they were supervised and they were allowed to shriek and scream that loud, then I have nothing to say about the person supervising them!  

Even as I write, I can hear such screams and loud talking from the flat opposite mine

Yes, I know this is part of the deal of public housing but I sure wish these kids were more considerate! Thankfully, most of our children are able to sleep through such noises and so that probably makes me the one that is least tolerant.

Ok - rant over.

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Posted by Delci

You are not alone. I don't like school holidays too. And sometimes, I really wish Christmas doesn't falls in school holidays.

Every where is crowded. In fact, I don't even like to go out during school holidays! chaos everywhere!!!!

Posted by SAM

Aargh, I can't even stand the sound of my own children happily playing away. So noisy, it gets on my nerves all the time, especially in the car. Stresses me up to no end. After asking a few times for them to lower their "volume", and warning that I'm about to explode, and getting no response, I would just try the ultimate - I explode. Everyone's unhappy in the end and I will feel like my blood vessels are about to explode through my brain.

Now you know why I can't stand having more children.

I also can't stand the sound of those China children who like to play in our downstairs playground in the evenings while their families congregate. Once I scolded them when I got out of the car about them being noisy when I was passing by downstairs. I couldn't care less bc I was super-annoyed. And yeah, sometimes they can be doing that at 10pm at night when I am so trying to just wind down.