Hi. I'm desperately trying to get back into work after being at home for nearly 5 years with my youngest.
My oldest has a lot of behavioural problems & I have the health visitors/school nurse/caff in place because of this.
They are wanting me to do a ten week course with my son, which will take him out of school for 3 hours once each week. I'm not sure about this for a few reasons but one of them is, I'm trying to get a job over school hours & I'm not going to be able to find one where I can have 3 hours off once a week for 10 weeks am I?!
I have no family support so school hours with after school club is what I'm looking for ideally.
I've not mentioned the job thing to the health visitors etc because I know, I do know, that I'm being selfish. Helping my son with his behaviour is more important than myself working. I know this & will accept it.
I'm just sulking a bit as I've been waiting to have them both at school so I could get back out there and work.
The question I have really is, what do I do about working then? I'm on income support which is about to end, & I can't expect to keep claiming benefits so that I can be free to take my son on courses can I! (That's not a question, I know I can't, & don't want to)
Do I find different hour jobs/pay out more for evening childcare so that I have the daytime free for courses?
Has anybody else been in this situation?
If I tell the jobcentre about this course, they are gonna laugh at me, right?!
(I feel like I'm being ridiculous even posting this by the way & am aware that lots of family's have much harder things to navigate than this)
I just feel a bit out of my depth & can't work out what to do.