Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 13.50 EST
After the government decided to announce a new lockdown in England and close schools to most pupils, parents have been juggling working and home schooling once more. From practical issues such as broadband and printing, to concerns surrounding mental health, four parents spoke about how they have been coping this last week.
‘We’re not trained as teachers’
“Yesterday and today I mainly battled a migraine brought on by the sheer anxiety of trying to juggle a full time role with a child at home for the next six weeks at least,” said Esther Dusabe-Richards, a 39-year-old academic who lives in Leeds, and has twins, aged two, in nursery, and a five-year-old daughter in primary school.