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Episode 03: Rachel
03/22/2017
Episode 03: Rachel
In this episode, I interview Rachel, one of my school mums who is working, studying and raising 3 kids. Features scheduling failures and a dog! The Lowdown – Family of 5 – 2 Working Parents – 1 part-time/casual work (relief teaching) and studying – 1 part-time work – 11 year old – 8 year old (special needs) – 7 year old 4:38 Sleep 5:08 Who are the people in your family? Who does what when? 7:06 Parenting super powers 7:29 Doing lots of things at a time 9:01 2 different schools 9:25 Calming influence 10:02 Picking up each others slack 10:51 Relief teaching with school pick up and drop offs 11:05 OSHC (Out of school hours care) 11:47 Have you been able to choose your own path? 12:40 Feeling restricted in how much you can do 13:18 Both partners feeling restricted? 13:51 The extra load of a special needs family 14:28 2 part time workers 15:06 Pressure of being solely responsible 16:20 Men and retrenchment 16:58 American example of larger numbers of men losing manufacturing jobs and taking on child care 19:30 What works well? 19:54 Children taking on more responsibility 21:30 Downsides? 22:00 Individual time with each child 22:10 What else have you tried 22:58 Casual employment and childcare 23:47 Has it got easier (please say yes!) 24:24 As it gets easier you take more on – like study 24:48 What is the next step? 25:08 Fitting university placements around work 25:30 Won’t somebody think of the….dog? 26:03 Impact of university placements on husbands work load 26:54 Supportive work environments? 27:04 Relief teaching = many different work environments, no single person to negotiate with 28:58 Funny or disastrous moments? 28:40 University Placement + Relief teaching fail 30:12 Is this what you thought family would look like? – NO! 31:24 Not having a job when you start a family 33:12 Flip side – having a job that you have to go back to 35:02 Any advice? Let me know what you thought of this episode! Leave a comment below, leave a review on or , contact me via , or . Or even better join the and talk to me there.
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