I’m lucky that my employer is very understanding when I have to take time off to look after my children if they are ill.
I just don’t get how I would manage if they weren’t and also how other people do it?
I work pt 3 days a week and have school holidays off, I teach so I don’t get a holiday allowance that I could use if they were ill during term time. I use a childminder to look after my children when I work. My parents and Inlaws all work full time and I have no one else who I can ask to look after my children if they are ill so myself/husband are forced to take time off. We usually take turns depending on who has took more time off lately.
Are most people just lucky enough to have parents or inlaws that don’t work? Surely there must be others in a similar situation to me. What do you do? I just wonder what would happen if I changed employment and my boss wasn’t so understanding. I also feel like my youngest gets ill quite often due to him being extremely prem and on oxygen until he was 10 months, he often suffers with chest infections and sometimes gets admitted as he struggles to fight cold viruses.