‘Outings? None of that: this is what my children’s summer vacation looks like’
‘Too expensive’
“I could spend thousands of euros to send my children to camp, but they are of different ages, so they can’t go to the same camp,” she writes. “So that would mean I’d have to take the nagging, hungry little ones who stay home with me.” Zoo, theme park or museum: Rachel shouldn’t even think about that – it’s all way too expensive. ‘And that bustle? All those crying children of others? No thanks…’
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Like her own childhood
Rachel wants her children to experience the summer holidays as she always experienced them in her youth: playing outside until the sun goes down. ‘Can I relax in a garden chair? And while I’m flipping through a magazine, my kids run through the sprinkler. Are they hungry? Then I give them a fruity popsicle. They can dress up, color in one of the hundreds of coloring books, make a fort with blankets or catch fireflies before going to sleep. If they still dare to whine that they are bored, then I don’t know what will.’
‘Second mortgage’
“There are so many possibilities,” the blogger concludes. “And none of them require me to take out a second mortgage or find another job.”
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