I'll give you to do it.

This morning I read another tweet from someone who thought it was rather exaggerated that many parents find it problematic that the children now sit home for 5 weeks. I always wonder if such a person has children of his own and can really judge what it feels like, what it means. And even if so, who are you to determine for others whether it is problematic or not?

I asked an acquaintance how she does that now. She's a single parent, her husband died a few years ago. She has a son of 17 (from her husband's previous relationship) and 2 children from her own marriage of 11 and 13 years old. She has a full-time job and could combine all that with a lot of effort up to corona.

She now has to work at home and tries to combine it as best as possible with her children sitting at home. She herself starts working at 5.30 because otherwise she will not be able to get to her hours because of all the time she has to spend on the children. At 10.00 in the morning there is work consultation via the Internet. In order to be able to participate in a quiet part, she usually sits in the bathroom., sometimes disturbed by children who need to go to the toilet. (She can tell very humorously about that) In between there is also regular consultation via the internet or the telephone with colleagues. Because they have other working hours, this can happen until 8 p.m.

Because it was not possible to keep the three children at the same time at school around the table in the living room. Everyone now has his own workplace between which she runs back and forth. The eldest daughter has it in her bedroom because the two girls slept in one room. Two extra laptops had to be purchased. A good bite out of the already not too large budget.

Son love (pubering a lot) hangs around bored all days because his internship is closed. The fact that he does not yet know if he can finish his education without sufficient internship hours does not make it easier either. His side job on weekends and holidays in the hospitality industry stopped months ago. Sports, going out, meeting friends, it's all on a low burner which makes him bored and preferably seems to bore with his sisters and for the pocket money a call to mom again.