How to telecommute when your children are in the next room? A puzzle that many parents face on Monday, when all schools have closed due to the spread of the coronavirus and 12 million students must now stay at home.
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This is particularly the case for the family of our journalist, Victor Dhollande. This Monday morning, his wife is trying to clear things up with their two children, Clémentine and Léon who have a hard time making the difference between this situation and the holidays.
"No, it's not the holidays"
The little girl deciphers the schedule of lessons drawn up by her parents: "10 am: school at home. But what will I do?", She wonders. "We will do all the subjects that the teacher has prepared, math, French, geography, history ...", explains her mother. But Clementine would prefer to watch cartoons. "No, it's not the holidays," we remind him. For its part, the government has promised a correspondence course system.
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At 12:30 p.m., lunch break, before resuming at 2 p.m. with reading. Then it's time for the pastry workshop, modeling clay or drawing, for example. And finally, 4:30 p.m .: snack.
But above all, "there is another rule to respect. It is that when mom or dad works, we don't make any noise: we keep quiet and we let them work", tries to impose the mom of Clementine and Leon . A new organization which should take a few days to set up.