Anyone got a grasp on this? I started the summer with three great babysitters and I’m down to none. We thought we had remote learning whipped, but our last and most reliable babysitter just gave three weeks notice because she’s going to spend the semester visiting an aunt in Seattle. Another one said “eff it” and she and her husband are selling their house, buying an RV and hitting the road, and the last one is in her mid 20s but cares for her at risk parents and has been put on house arrest by them.
Our kids are in kindergarten, 3rd grade and 5th grade. The youngest needs remote learning help. We are looking at remote learning camp at the Y at a cost of $1800 a month. That wasn’t in the budget.
My wife is about to lose her mind. She was curled up in the fetal position last night, stressing out.
Between this and quarantine stress and politics and the world as a whole, I’m just trying to hang onto my family and marriage. A couple we know just separated and they seemed so strong. But quarantine and division of duties and all that stuff got them.
Hope we can all look back someday and say this made us all stronger or better somehow, because if not this really just sucks.