What mother is late for her child’s swim? Well I’
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Being ready at seven o’clock on the football field while it turns out to be a winter break or being late for your child’s swimming. Sometimes it pays to check your agenda at least fifteen times.
Mariska (30), mother of Maya (11) and Feline (9):
“Which mother is late for her child’s swim? Well, me, at Feline’s C degree. I hadn’t checked, but assumed that they used the same times for C as before for A and B: two o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Not so.
Too late
The moment we arrived in full regalia, with grandpa and grandma who live eighty kilometers away, the whole party turned out to be over. Super snow. I immediately arranged for her to swim that Monday morning just before school and for my best friend to come as an audience. Then we went to breakfast together.
Still, Feline was inconsolable. She is now doing gymnastics and I check the game times a hundred times. This will never happen to me again.”
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Scattered
Pascalle (34), mother of Mitchell (11) and Mees (6):
“One time is pretty stupid, but coming to parent meetings on the wrong evening for a second time is downright clumsy. You can therefore best describe my motherhood as ‘absent’.
I often put appointments in the agenda from the Parent Portal or the group app, but I no longer look at them because I think I remember the correct date. This regularly leads to crazy actions, such as being ready at seven o’clock for a football match while there is a winter break. Or discover on Friday that it’s autumn break the following week and I have to change my working week.
Or showing up twice at the wrong time for the ten-minute interview. The first time at the start of the school year I was a week early, the last time in June I arrived at the schoolyard two days earlier than planned. Both times I had also drummed up my ex, which is understandable there not amused about laundry.”
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