The cost of childcare has come down in recent years but for many parents, having a relative who can help out is a godsend.
The cost of childcare, Katie Makk from thepodcast said she would never have thought to help out until she became a mother herself.“My brother recently moved back from the UK and he has a five-year-old and a two-year-old,” she said.
“The five-year-old, who is in school with my son, I collect them both from school and take them together.Ms Makk described parenthood as something that is both “constant” and “very, very difficult”.“Parenting is hard; it’s demand, it’s harder than any job I’ve ever done.”Once a month, Ms Makk said her in-laws and parents help out a lot with childcare and she realises this makes a “lot luckier” than most people.
However, she also feels strongly that this is also something that family members should do for each other. “I think decent family members, whatever about friends, I think decent family members would step in and help,” she said. “I kind of exhaust my childcare a bit because when I work during the week my parents-in-law and my parents do the childminding.”Another caller, Jason, recalled how he took a “massive interest” in his sibling’s children when they were younger.“I took them canoeing, I put them on trips down the southwest coast of Ireland.Despite this, his siblings are not quite as involved in the lives of his two young boys.
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