The school is almost in the summer and there is one word on the lips of each mother – help! | Ryan Pecon James
Everyone told me that the “Juggle” would be easier when my daughter started receiving this year. It was, simply, a lie. Any of the school’s father will also tell you that he is barely there.
Mothers began to exchange panic messages about the summer vacation in the WhatsApp Class collection in May, exchange links with clubs and child care options they already booked, which all seem terrible, and perhaps worse than just a sorcery at home. I only have one child. A United Nations report revealed this week that millions of people around the world do not have the largest number of children, and I know why: yes, it is the “high cost of parenthood”, and for many, a large part of this pays for what he does with your smile when you do not take care of school.
One of the options is a “camp” for gymnastics – outside the city, for a week only, and ends at 3 pm. I can push my five -year -old to a new hobby, but would it really be worth it for a week? What about the other five From the summer vacation? Assuming that I work from the house, with a decrease in nine in the morning, I can return to my office by 9.45, but then I will have to leave again by 2.30, which seems to be worth it. By the time we got to swing things, the camp had ended and I would need a new sport lining up to take its place on the next Monday.
Some school mothers say they booked with a local private school, across the English border in terms of I live in Wales. There is a PE teacher who runs something open for nearby schools, which also does not cover the entire holiday and will cost a fortune.
The money is not really the problem, because even if you have money, there is no place to go and even terrible options is always booked quickly. It is not as if there is a great solution and it is a long -standing solution – there is nothing really available. The African Union’s husband’s regime was killed by Britain’s exit from the European Union, so it is no longer an option.
The problem is that there is a more school leave than parents have a law legally entitled to work, and we live in an income economy. If the parents add each of their vacation for 5.6 weeks together, and the leave they requested is guaranteed, then it still does not cover the amount of the school holiday – this is on the assumption that they did not take any time together as a family. The school calendar has not been updated since it was created in the Victorian era, when the way we worked with and its owners seemed completely different. Moreover, this generation of Boamer grandparents does not want to help as well, because they want to “enjoy retirement” and go on holidays instead.
The level of paternity and maternity expected from us is not similar to any history that is unprecedented. Even when families and religion had workers, as in my family, no one has done work to care for children. They did not know them. My grandparents were working and leaving my father to find his own pleasure until dinner time, but today we call (right) to invite this child. Once he had a car, because he was smaller than knowing that you should look in both directions when crossing the road. He was on his way to the beach, with another child, to sail a raft that he built. In the sea.
It is a sexual issue. I haven’t seen any fathers in the chat talking about solutions, because for most of them, they are not a problem. They explode, do their work, and attend their conferences, without worrying about it. They do not receive feverish calls from their wives asking them to explore the problems of childcare and repair children if they dare try to leave the house.
Even part -time jobs Not correctly designed for parents. Three days of three -day working days a week are entitled to only 16.8 days of leave and school holidays take up to 13 weeks. And that is before we enter in the days and sick days, and who covers them? (They are mothers; me.)
It should not be this way. In other countries, such as the United States, they raise their children to night camps for nine to 12 weeks at a time. It is not an ideal solution, but at least people can remain employees. It seems that the French, as always, have achieved this by taking off in the summer with a wonderful annual leave.
The most practical solution I saw is Amazon contract “time”Which allows parents to take 10 weeks of leave per year while keeping a full -time job, with a mixture of paid -paid vacation vacation. They have been running the plan since 2023, and the company has not destroyed and burned it yet. If only more companies can see benefits – which include a diverse workforce full of mothers with a group of companies missing.
Child care is the infrastructure. Just as we need general health and transportation methods and transportation, the country needs to solve children’s care. Today’s children will pay for your pensions, provide your health care and build your ways. But only if we make it possible for people to continue to get it.