Whether in the home office or in the office. What is it like when mom and dad are busy? It is high time that those concerned spoke: What do children and young people have to say about it when father and mother work a lot?
Mimi, 9 years old
"I often go to after-school care, so I can do great courses like song coaching or modern dance, after that I'm never alone. Grandpa, grandpa or our babysitter, there is always someone there. I have a fixed plan for every day and knows exactly who is coming. The only annoying thing is if my girlfriends are often picked up early from school, sometimes I don’t have any more to play with. "
Siri, 11 years old
"Overtime is stupid. Then Papa is only there when I sleep."
Bela, 15 years old
"Because my parents only come home in the evening, I call mom every day while I go home from school. It's our ritual."
Flo, 11 years old
"When my mother studies at home with me because I don't go to school every day because of Corona, she is often stressed because she has to work herself. What I hate most when she says so tense: honey, that it's really easy! "
Lilo, 11 years old
"When the other children were gone in the daycare center, I was always allowed to do special things with the late-duty educator. The nicest thing was with Saskia, we played disco together. Educators are great!"
Paula, 12 years old
"I never thought I would say that, but I waited for the school to open again every week. I liked the fact that I was able to sleep longer during the Corona full school closure, but then it became frequent We all worked at home, my mother, my father, my brother and I. It was nice to see what my parents were doing and to see their colleagues at video conferences, but above all we were up for it the nerves are gone. There have never been so clear times when someone works, learns or has free time, everything mixed up. That was stupid. "
Niklas, 6 years old, when his mother was on parental leave with her little sister two years ago.
"When will you finally pick me up last from the daycare?"
Ella, 5 years old
"I think it's stupid that mom and dad work so much. I prefer to be on vacation. They are always there."
Lilli, 17 years old
"In elementary school I had a friend who was able to go home at noon because her mother was not at work. I was jealous. She was under constant surveillance at home and was carted to all kinds of music and sports courses in the afternoon – and I wouldn't have wanted that anyway. But her mother would probably have been bored otherwise. "
Lucie, 14 years old
"To be honest, it annoys me when my mother does a home office in normal times because she is there when I come home for lunch or a free hour. I think it's great to have the apartment all to myself."
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