School holidays and the motherhood penalty, with Jennifer Horgan and Sinead O’Moore

 It’s that time of year again, parents are frantically
trying to figure out where to warehouse their children over the
next 8 weeks, teachers are trying to marshall exhausted children
who are staying up too late and everybody is in desperate need of
a holiday.


 


How are working parents meant to manage the summer holidays? Why
is there no government assistance for this – and whose
responsibility is it, anyway?


Teacher and columnist Jennifer Horgan and parenting podcaster
Sinead O’Moore have both written for the Irish Examiner in recent
days about school holidays, parenting, and the struggle to
balance competing responsibilities.


 


They join Deirdre on today’s episode to talk about motherhood,
compromise, parenting, and what needs to change.


 


Jennifer Horgan: Teachers aren't responsible for childcare and
workplace challenges


Mums need to be honest about the toll of school years — the
'motherhood penalty' is real


 


 


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