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A little bit easier. if you don t have to excel, whether at work or parenthood, or any sports or anything, if you can just be who you are, and that s fine, that makes life easier. she speaks dutch what does that mean? it really means, if you are you, that s fine, you don t have to be anybody else, you don t have to be extreme, you don t have to be excellent. just being normal is ok. having grown up in the uk and peering in from the outside, there are other benefits of dutch culture that to me make parenting seem a little less stressful. there is close proximity to your own parents often. most dutch people don t have to take a flight to visit their parents, which is a huge difference with the us. it takes a village to raise a child. i think in the past it was more ....
Table, their living room, or in a cafe near their work, or maybe even in their office in the middle of a workday, and mums broke down in tears, telling me they felt they were failing their children. there is not a focus on over work. there is in some jobs obviously and some areas, but i think in general we don t have that culture. i think if people have the choice, unfortunately lots of people don t, but if they do, they will choose a job where they are home at six and work a little less. i think you see many more parents of these years working four days a week, than ten years ago. i think it is fine going home at four or five, it is ok as long as you put in your hours, which is 40 hours a week. we don t have a culture that stresses excellence, so you don t have to excel. that makes life ....
Parents have to adopt private solutions to reconcile their caregiving with their paid employment. when we leave it up to individual parents to reconcile these competing demands, what we get is disparities reproduced between typically wealthier, more highly educated workers, who can secure daycare facilities that are open the hours that they work to help care for their kids. it is lower income, vulnerable hourly wage workers who most need access to work family policies, and at the same time are least likely to have access to them. there are lots of things different in our culture compared to the us in terms of mothers stress. going back to work is after 16 weeks. for most of our mothers that isjust for two or three days a week. it is not all positive, that also has downsides. our childcare system is good, but it could be better. but the positive side is that our culture might be a little more family focused ....