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When we had our first child, my husband & I needed lớn figure out how to balance childcare và work. We both wanted to spend time with our son but didn"t want to stop working or pay for expensive childcare. The UK has some of the highest childcare costs in the world, và the lack of government tư vấn for working parents leaves many facing difficult decisions.
After many hours of researching & looking at finances, we both decided khổng lồ work part time. I returned khổng lồ work two days a week, và my husband started working a four-day week. This left us with four days of childcare, & we found a babysitter for the remaining day. We both had understanding employers who were mở cửa to flexibility, but I know from friends that this isn"t always the case.
We"ve since had another child, & we took shared parental leave after she was born, something very few men in both of our organizations had done before. After that maternity leave, I decided to quit my job and freelance, giving me more flexibility with a workaround for both children.
Our son has now started school, & my husband và I both work four-day weeks, meaning we each have a day with our daughter while we continue our careers. Over the last five years we"ve saved around $40,000 on childcare, & despite both taking pay cuts we aren"t that much worse off.
Our working schedule is unusual
Our cài đặt doesn"t feel weird to us, but it is unusual. In the UK in 2019, only 2% of families with children the same age as ours had two parents working part time. The norm is dads working full time, which was the case for 96% of families.
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We"ve faced some resistance to our cài đặt — my husband has been asked by strangers what he is doing with our children when he"s out with them, illustrating how uncommon it still is to see a father doing childcare during the workweek.
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We don"t have a perfect childcare split or balance — ours often feels precariously arranged and requires a lot of admin. I sometimes feel lượt thích I"m failing at parenting and work, và in trying to do it all I"m succeeding at neither.
But I hope that by finding our own answers to lớn the impossible dilemma of childcare we"re normalizing men looking after their kids and women continuing khổng lồ enjoy work after starting a family. Work can be just as fulfilling & purposeful after kids, and part time doesn"t mean part qualified or part committed.
I hope that fathers doing childcare becomes more common — not just for women, but so men can enjoy some of the joys (and sometimes struggles) of being a stay-at-home parent. It can be a whole lot of fun going out for ice cream or lớn the park on a weekday afternoon.
Women are so often told they need to bởi it all in work và family life — but for that to lớn be realistic, it"s important for men khổng lồ be able to vì both too. Progress for women in work is amazing, but it"s only really possible if there is progress for men at home too.
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Mỹ thuật
1.My husband và I both go out lớn work so we giới thiệu the ______
A.happiness
B.household chores
C.responsibility
D.employment
2.Your success in life____very largely on yourself
A.is keen
B.depends
C.lies
D.goes
3.We were so late that we_____had time lớn catch the train
A.nearly
B.almost
C.hardly
D.simply
4.If you wish khổng lồ learn a new language,you must ___ classes
A.follow
B.present
C.attend
D.assist
5.We took____ of the fine weather và spent the day on the beach
A.chance
B.advantage
C.occasion
D.effect
6.When I saw Minh ,I stopped and smiled ,but he_____me and walked on
A.refused
B.omitted
C.ignored
D.denied
7.Her parents were very ____ because she was out so late that night
A.responsible
B.sorry
C.worrying
D.worried
8.The nurse was on___ in the hospital all night
A.work
B.alarm
C.service
D.duty
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1.My husband và I both go out to lớn work so we tóm tắt the ______
A.happiness
B.household chores
C.responsibility
D.employment
2.Your success in life____very largely on yourself
A.is keen
B.depends
C.lies
D.goes
3.We were so late that we_____had time khổng lồ catch the train
A.nearly
B.almost
C.hardly
D.simply
4.If you wish to learn a new language,you must ___ classes
.follow
A
B.present
C.attend
D.assist
5.We took____ of the fine weather and spent the day on the beach
A.chance
B.advantage
C.occasion
D.effect
6.When I saw Minh ,I stopped & smiled ,but he_____me và walked on
A.refused
B.omitted
C.ignored
D.denied
7.Her parents were very ____ because she was out so late that night
A.responsible
B.sorry
C.worrying
D.worried
8.The nurse was on___ in the hospital all night
A.work
B.alarm
C.service
D.duty
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Fill in each đen in the letter with a suitable word
Dear Mom and Dad,
This is just a quick letter to let you know that I'm fine. We are all working quite hard because the exama are only a few weeks aways, but our teacher (1) ................ He thinks we'll vị well.
Anyway, we (2) ................... A wonderful time at half term. We went off Paris for a (3) .............. Days with my friends and we went on a guided tour. We saw most of the famous sights (4) ................. The louver, here they have an amazing collections of painings, và the Eiffel Tower. Then we went down khổng lồ the south of France (5) ............. Train. It was so (6) ............... Thw whole journey was only about fours hours. We (7) ........... A little time in Nice & in Cannes as well, và we all (8) ............... Enjoyed it. On our last day we went lớn a small island (9) ................... The Ilea des Pelerins and we saw the castle where they (10) .................. Khổng lồ keep the '' Man in the Iron Mask''. All in all we had a great time và the weather was really good as well.
Anyway, I must go now as I've got to bởi vì a lot of homework for tomorrow. Will you write soon?
