No more business calls in the bathroom, but parents feel kids' absence

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Newport mum Sam Pierce said she was glad to return some balance to family life despite some anxiety from both her and her children about the return to school. covid19 coronavirus lockdown school

While the scarf pin and ring business she runs with her sister experienced a surge in demand from online shoppers, the entrepreneur was also juggling the homeschooling demands of her three primary-school-aged children.Credit:"While you're helping a grade 2 with maths, a grade 5 learning about astronauts and a grade 4 who's trying to cook a recipe, at the same time you're trying to take business calls in the bathroom," she said.

The Newport mum said she was glad to return some balance to family life despite some anxiety from both her and her children about the return to school."We had some tears last night from my little boy who's in grade 2," she said. "But this morning, we walked right up to the gate, he saw a couple of friends, said 'see ya, mum!' and he was fine."

"I had to go for a walk because I didn’t want to come home to an empty house. They've got to adjust back to their friends and I've got to adjust back to a quiet house." Ajay Bhargava was also adjusting back to working solo from home now that his two children are back at Avondale Primary School."Initially, I felt glad to have the house to myself and maybe 30 minutes to an hour after that it was just dead silence."

 

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