Harassed @ home • Six harassed parents talk about work at home and home schooling.
• 6 位身心俱疲的家長跟我們分享在家工作以及子女 在家學習的情況。
• Lack of learning progress, lethargy and conflict at home are their main concerns.
• 他們最關注的是子女在家學習進度緩慢、缺乏學習 動力以及長期在家帶來的相處問題。
• Working, whether at home or outside, makes life even more difficult but monitoring education is hardest.
• 無論在家工作還是在公司上班，工作本身都已經帶 來壓力，但家長認為要兼顧監察子女學習進度最令 人頭痛。
Wendy Six months ago, we decided to move in with my parents-in law: me, my husband, my son aged six and my one-year-old daughter. I work part-time in sales for an environmental company and in the past, I could take the children with me to work. The virus made it too dangerous but looking after them at home as well as working was too much to handle. I needed help. Imagine: doing all the cooking when the restaurants are closed, doing all the teaching Monday to Friday, getting any work done and playing with them. Impossible. Bella Our five-year-old is at in a government kindergarten. I can help her with online lessons most of the time while working at home. The school provided video clips for the children via the school app but they can’t be played on a mobile phone and have to be downloaded on a computer after copying and pasting the URL via email. It is clumsy system.
Ivy We have a seven-year-old who is at an aided primary school which implemented BYOD (bring your own device) in his first year. The school arranged for purchase of iPads so we were lucky and he had his own at home during class suspensions. Since both my husband and I have been working at home most of the time, one of us could help him with online lessons. Mazzy I have two boys aged eight and 12 at a government subsidized school. My husband is a civil servant and I usually work part-time in a restaurant kitchen. These days, I spend most my time trapped at home with the boys. At the very beginning, when they used Zoom for the first time, I helped but after that, they didn’t need me even though the school didn’t offer much support.
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