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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. It's a interesting tweet

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Speaker 1: by Yumi Steins who said I've got an actual day

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Speaker 1: job and I started back today. Unfortunately, childcare and school

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Speaker 1: for my four year old starts back next Tuesday. So

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Speaker 1: like all the other parents in this situation, we are

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Speaker 1: beat and likely to be paying more than we're earning

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Speaker 1: to go to work today. Moral of the story, to

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Speaker 1: advance your career, don't have kids, and this disproportionately affects women.

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Speaker 1: So the moral of the actual story is marry a

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Speaker 1: woman or don't have kids. And it reminded me of

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Speaker 1: this Mere Freedman article I've been reading about the school

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Speaker 1: system and how it really was designed for a different

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Speaker 1: era of Australian life. Are you going to go the

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Speaker 1: Blob on this? So we're going to last time you

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Speaker 1: did a mea Freeman thing, you went into the bloods.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to today. I've just got to prepare

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Speaker 1: for it. It's not the bloods. I could put on

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Speaker 1: the Blob Zone song the Day you went away. We

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Speaker 1: don't need it, No, we don't need it. Can I

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Speaker 1: just tell you this, please, thank you that the way

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Speaker 1: our school system works at the moment. It is designed

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Speaker 1: on an idea that we have a full time stay

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Speaker 1: at home parent who could accommodate the nine to three

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Speaker 1: school day and the endless school holidays, as well as

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Speaker 1: all the tuch shop duty and all those school things

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Speaker 1: school cardinals. It all happen is in working hours, makes

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Speaker 1: it hard for parents to be there. As she said,

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Speaker 1: the maths doesn't work. Parents who work full time outside

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Speaker 1: the home get four weeks of annual leave and yet

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Speaker 1: school age children get twelve to eighteen weeks of school holidays. Wow. Parents'

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Speaker 1: workdays are mostly eight hours long, some even longer. Their

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Speaker 1: children's school days are around six hours. So the maths

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Speaker 1: just doesn't work. And as she says, here is this

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Speaker 1: system is kind of broken because it is built on

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Speaker 1: the premise that we had there's a full time care

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Speaker 1: at home, and who today has that life? Really not

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Speaker 1: many of us. And she goes on to say, at

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Speaker 1: a time when working hours and have never been longer,

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Speaker 1: we're simultaneously jammed by societal pressures and expectations that our

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Speaker 1: children are constantly supervised and entertained. Remember you just didn't

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Speaker 1: go home play in the backyard. You have to have

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Speaker 1: events arranged for you and supervision. And she said, add

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Speaker 1: to that the fact there are many single parent households,

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Speaker 1: fewer extended family members living nearby, and this is why

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Speaker 1: parents feel they're falling in a hole and aren't coping.

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Speaker 1: So everyone feels like this that it's a constant juggle

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Speaker 1: and a financial juggle often as to how you're going

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Speaker 1: to make this work. Is the solution? I mean, some

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Speaker 1: other countries have you can stay at school till five thirty.

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Speaker 1: It's like long daycare that the school provides and they're

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Speaker 1: given a meal and you pick them up. Other people

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Speaker 1: are saying you don't want your kid to have to

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Speaker 1: spend all day and holidays at school, But really, what

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Speaker 1: is the solution? I really don't know. Should our places

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Speaker 1: of work be more lenient, you can do more work

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Speaker 1: from home? What do you do in the school holidays?

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Speaker 1: We had clear one of our work colleagues yesterday. She

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Speaker 1: had her daughter with her because the daughter didn't go

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Speaker 1: back to school. Alexi, beautiful girl, such a nice young lady.

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Speaker 1: But Lexi was with Claire for half the day and

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Speaker 1: then going to spend half the day with dad. Because

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Speaker 1: what are the solutions? It doesn't work for modern family

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Speaker 1: and what if dad drives an excavator or something like that,

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Speaker 1: or it works as a welder. You can't have a

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Speaker 1: kid a great surgeon. Do you mind if lexi holds

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Speaker 1: the instrument to bring your kid to work day. That's

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Speaker 1: not a penholder, Darling, it's a brain good point. We

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Speaker 1: might do something about this on the on the podcast today,

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Speaker 1: because it's only when when you pointed out that everyone

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Speaker 1: goes yes, everyone struggles and you go, well, duh, the

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Speaker 1: mats doesn't add up. Fix it, fix it. Jonesy and Amanda,

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Speaker 1: Good morning,