Matthew McConaughey has some excellent advice for all boys regarding sexual consent.
02.09.2022 - 13:51 / ok.co.uk
As the school bell rang, and my children trooped into their respective classrooms on their first day back last month I took a deep breath and….whooped for joy! Apologies if I startled the other mums - some of whom were weeping with sadness at being parted from their little treasures - but I simply couldn’t contain my joy a moment longer. I love my children, Ruadhan, seven and Donnacha, five, beyond words. I would die for them.
But do I want to spend weeks and weeks (and then add a few more weeks) 24/7 with them every summer? No, I do not. And I feel no shame in admitting that.The truth is that for lots of parents, including me, the school summer holidays are, for the most part, a hellish combination of stress, expense and monotony. A lengthy countdown to getting back into a routine, with time and headspace to think and work, without being asked for a cheese sandwich or to mediate a Lego related dispute every five minutes.
There will always be some who love the opportunity to have all that extra time with their children and good for them. But I’m not one of them. As a self-employed writer, I’m both lucky to have some flexibility over the holidays and unlucky to have that same flexibility.
Sure, I can care for the boys during the day, but that requires not only trying to read and reply to emails, and fielding calls, on my phone while pushing a child on a swing at the park, but also working late at night to make up the hours lost and keep an income coming in. I simply cannot afford to down tools for weeks on end, nor do I get paid holidays, so frantically juggling both my professional life and my personal one, is the only option I have, especially with the cost of living now so high. Normally my husband Malcolm, 40, pitches
.Matthew McConaughey has some excellent advice for all boys regarding sexual consent.
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