For many, it’s homeschooling take two – hopefully the initial frantic scramble has settled into a calmer rhythm of storytelling, baking cookies and picnic in the garden … or is that just an imagined utopia?
With three young kids – aged seven, five, and two – Santiago finds kindergarten parents have the ‘toughest gig’.
Occasionally the teacher becomes the pupil, as Consalvo adds: ‘My son teaches me things … he reminds me that, well, there’s no point using time if you don’t do something good with it, and what’s the rush right now anyway?’
