I feel like the worst mum ever. I fell asleep by accident and slept through kindy pickup. Not only that they had called me earlier coz my son was sick. I ran to pick him up. My mum used to do this all the time through primary and I prided myself on never having done it and here we go I slept through myself. I feel so bad and scared of facing them again. I feel even worse because my son and I are so connected i always sense when something is wrong with him right down to what it is but I feel like I let him down big time. I know what it was like to have a mum late all the time and now I'm that mum :(
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Every mum has been that mum at least once.
Big difference between once and a few times and consistently, in the teachers eyes too. Everyones human and makes mistakes.
But I understand it leaves you feeling shitty too. If it helps, this morning before day care I did I nappy change to find baby wearing a day care nappy, which means I hadn't changed it since 5 yesterday. I have no idea how it happened. We fuck up sometimes, its OK, we all do.
Oh hun don't beat yourself up about it. We all do things like this at least once I think (or perhaps a few times lol)
I've luckily not done the pick up sleep through but I did fall asleep in my car in the school parking lot :) Fuck it, I was tired and my son saw my car so he came out eventually (when he'd finished playing with the bus kids lol) to wake me up. When you run yourself to the point of exhaustion your body will make you sleep regardless and we all know what exhaustion feels like, I found it beneficial to have an alarm set for school pick up if I was home for the day - just in case.
I've done it! Well sort of. We had electricians at our house and they turned the power off and when they finally turned it back on, the clock was an hour late. I didn't realise and it was 3.30pm when i thought it was 2.30! Got a call from the school as my preppy was sitting in the office waiting for me. I cried I felt soooo bad. But it was a mistake. And that's all you did too. You didn't mean it. My daughter doesn't even remember now... xx
We are human and have all stuffed up at some stage, no one is perfect. Don't stress about it. But hey when I couldn't keep my eyes open while waiting for the kids to come out of school seen dr for a check up, ended up having really low iron, no more napping during the day now it's been treated. Maybe there is a medical reason why your mum was like it. It doesn't make anyone a bad parent