TESTIMONY
No school, little outing and lots of homework. This is the new daily newspaper for hundreds of thousands of children confined around the world. As the coronavirus epidemic continues to grow, they are forced to adapt to the situation. Europe 1 gathered the testimonies of five children, living in France and abroad. On the air, they told of their confinement, between busy parents, invasive brothers and sisters, and an avalanche of homework to complete.
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"I'm already getting tired of it," says Marius, 10, who lives in Sèvres, in the Paris region. His mother teleworks "all day", and his father is "not super patient". "And then as we have to stay at home, we are all a bit on edge ...", he says. It's not easy to spend your days locked up when you're used to frolicking in the playground ...
"I can always go and annoy my brother"
Failing to be able to walk, Olivia, a young Brussels girl of 15, "changes her mood" by going from her mother's ... to her father's. "I found a kind of balance. With my mother, it is a little more strict. With dad, it is a little cooler," she compares. But both, she says, "work too much". So when she gets bored, Olivia falls back on someone else: "I can always go bother my brother ...", she smiles.
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For some, the problem is the opposite: how to have a moment for yourself when the house is constantly occupied? "I miss being alone. My little sister is there all the time, she wants to play all day," said Sacha, 9, from New York. At Rosalie's, 11 years old, the parents adopted a new "law": everyone should be able to take a moment of peace during the day. "If when you enter a room, a person is already there and they want to be a little lonely, you have to accept. Otherwise it derails," says the young Berliner.
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Not easy either to find a place quiet enough to tackle the pile of homework that awaits schoolchildren every day. "At home, it's too easy to deconcentrate," admits 11-year-old Violette. She lives in Paris, and at her place, the space is rather reduced. "Sometimes I work in the bathroom because all the other rooms are occupied!"
"My parents also have restrictions"
In this situation, all means are good to avoid additional stress. "At home, we made a charter. For example, me and my little sister, we have to set the table at all meals," explains Marius. "My parents also have restrictions: they no longer have the right to say bad words," adds Violette. Because they understood it well, containment will have to do with it. Marius, an old wise man before the hour, sums up: "You have to be patient, and after a while it will pass."
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