The impossibility of parenting in the pandemic

[Anonymous]

Deb Perelman (Smitten Kitchen) on COVID parenting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/business/covid-economy-parents-kids-career-homeschooling.html


My favorite comment --- hits the nail on the head even more than the article:

I am a grandmother and believe me I am with you on this. This is a devastating situation. I can’t understand it either. There are 50 million public school kids. Why their fate is not addressed with the same urgency as, say, bailing out the airlines, is unconscionable. I am disgusted, dismayed and sleepless with rage. The United States of America is failing spectacularly in its response to the needs of the people that live within its borders. Are normal people to become peasants, serfs, to be living in desperate shadows of an oligarchy?

[Anonymous]

This article is so accurate. So so accurate.

[Anonymous]

Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

Hey pp with chip on your shoulder this is completely different although even more difficult for single parents. Have some empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

This is really unfair. While doing this “for years,” didn’t you have childcare at least up until March 2020? I have enormous sympathy for single parents right now. I don’t know how you’re doing it. I’m in a two parent household with two kids under 5 and we are just barely holding it together. As in, we’re incredibly fortunate that we can work from home and flex our hours a little bit, and yet we’re both still not operating at any level approaching excellence right now. This situation SUCKS for working parents. Of course it’s harder on single parents. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy for the rest of us. It’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

Hey pp with chip on your shoulder this is completely different although even more difficult for single parents. Have some empathy.

DP. IMO its the exact same thing.

Have you thought about in-house solutions? Hiring help or just acting like a single parent? Dual-parent household should split the kids. One person watches them entirely for 3 days of the week. One for the other 3 days of the week. 7th day - split it.

Everybody gets rest-and-relaxation. Everybody gets days to completely focus on projects and work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

Hey pp with chip on your shoulder this is completely different although even more difficult for single parents. Have some empathy.

DP. IMO its the exact same thing.

Have you thought about in-house solutions? Hiring help or just acting like a single parent? Dual-parent household should split the kids. One person watches them entirely for 3 days of the week. One for the other 3 days of the week. 7th day - split it.

Everybody gets rest-and-relaxation. Everybody gets days to completely focus on projects and work.

WTF kind of job do you have that would allow this?? We’re talking about families where both parents work full time. This is not an option in my household I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal, people. I've been a single parent for years. I've worked when my kids were napping, sleeping, in front of the tv set, in the yard, in a bouncy seat, in a jolly jumper, in the car next to me. Yes, it's hard as hell, but guess what, you can do it. Shut up about it already.

Hey pp with chip on your shoulder this is completely different although even more difficult for single parents. Have some empathy.

DP. IMO its the exact same thing.

Have you thought about in-house solutions? Hiring help or just acting like a single parent? Dual-parent household should split the kids. One person watches them entirely for 3 days of the week. One for the other 3 days of the week. 7th day - split it.

Everybody gets rest-and-relaxation. Everybody gets days to completely focus on projects and work.

WTF kind of job do you have that would allow this?? We’re talking about families where both parents work full time. This is not an option in my household I know.

^^in “any” household

[Anonymous]

Already a thread

NYT: In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/892720.page