We've just accepted that in Catalonia we are about to change the school year calendar to shorten summer holidays. The debate still goes on, since balancing a quality private life and work is proving to be impossible for most of the families. Childcare, extra activities, help from relatives... all sort of solutions don't seem to be working well enough, since they are either expensive or energy consuming for both the children and people willing to give a hand.
I always thought the British working system was quite flexible and contemplated this issue in a quite balanced way. Unfortunately, in this article one can read that the problems are repeating themselves elsewhere.
With the economic crisis going around and many families having only one member in the working market, models may revert to the old ones: one parent is the "provider" , the other is the "home carer"...the only issue is that the home carer may have to be the man...I don't think in Spain many men are ready for it yet.
woman, late 40's, two children, changing jobs.... and still alive !!!
The past 10 years in my life have been full of extenuating changes: moving from the UK to Spain, starting a business in Mallorca, leading a Parents Association, changing home again, being unemployed for 1 year, teaching English and Philosophy at a primary school, getting Uni and other certificates, undergoing "oposiciones" after 10 months of intensive study- 8.64/10 and not selected due to lack of "points":( -...with a final result: unemployed again !!! (well, oficially I am on the secondary teachers waiting list...which is the same!)
"Mum you spend the whole afternoon sitting at your notebook connected to your social networks"....mmmm... I better start rethinking about CREATING MY OWN JOB ...what about learning more about SEO & media & web marketing ??? Well....some new courses on the way...there I go.
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