The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast: School holidays and the motherhood penalty

Irish Examiner columnist Jennifer Horgan and parenting podcaster Sinead O’Moore are guests on The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast

How are working parents meant to manage the summer holidays?

It’s that time of year again. Parents are frantically trying to figure out where to warehouse their children over the next eight weeks, teachers are trying to marshall exhausted children who are staying up too late, and everybody is in desperate need of a holiday.

How are working parents meant to manage the summer holidays? Why is there no government assistance for this — and whose responsibility is it, anyway?

Teacher and columnist Jennifer Horgan and parenting podcaster Sinead O’Moore have both written for the Irish Examiner in recent days about school holidays, parenting, and the struggle to balance competing responsibilities.

They join Deirdre on today’s episode to talk about motherhood, compromise, parenting, and what needs to change.