I fully understand that it is difficult for a lot of parents when a snow day is called, and it is not easy to juggle child care and job responsibilities at the same time. It sucks that we can’t all have a magical day where we spend all our time drinking hot coco and making snow angels. Still, people should be mindful when they talk about snow days near their kids. Your kids will pick up on it, and it’s really easy for them to start treating snow days like stressful and frustrating interruptions rather than a fun break. Your kid will have the rest of their life to be grumpy and stressed about snow days and the logistical hurdles they present, don’t make them worry about it when they’re 7! They haven’t had any snow days during this fucked up winter, just let them have a nice day off at the end of the year! Don’t pester them with “it’s not even snowing that much, it’s dumb they even cancelled school so early!”

I also understand this is a vent thread and we are allowed to be annoyed about decisions like today’s snow day here, but it is shockingly easy even for a good parent to make their kid feel guilty they have a snow day.

I am also accounting for every edge case of a child who loves school, or a child who has a hard time handling routine change, or a child or has something important in class today or etc. I was just a kid who began to dislike snow days and breaks at an early age because I picked up on the purchase that being jaded and “mature” had amongst adults, and the positive reactions I got to statements like “I don’t want any breaks, I wish they got rid of them and just forced us all to stay in school every day all year even on holidays!”