I have a 6 year old and a 7 year old so have had a couple of years of the nightmare of organising childcare during the summer holidays (the year my DD was still in nursery, I nearly had to sell a kidney to cover her full time nursery fees as her 30 hours only covered term time!)
I'm not yet at panic stage - but only because I still don't know if our school will open on June 1st. And am taking a week at a time really. And I appreciate we are in unprecedented times etc etc.
But just looking for inspiration really - if holiday clubs don't re-open and schools break up as expected in July, WTF am I going to do to cover the school holidays? How is everyone else planning to cope?
For context, Grandparents in their 70s, I work four days/week and have already booked three weeks of summer as annual leave (originally planning to go away ) so no chance I can take any more leave, husband works agency so my only choice seems to be that he doesn't work (having only just gone back to work this week after no work since lockdown!)
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Member345787 · 27/05/2020 17:02
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