Children are costly - especially, if one follows the many advice columns on parenting including things like early sensory stimulation from infant massage and swimming lessons to children’s yoga and early musical education followed by chess clubs, educational computer games and quality childcare - preferably bilingual.
The fear of falling behind by failing to provide ones offspring every chance to realize their often cited “potential” can become a real terror. Playground conversations can turn acidic when choices and preferences come under scrutiny. Bitterness can be the lasting aftertaste following a play date at the house of a more affluent family.
Even hands-off childhood approaches such as the ones based on the Steiner curriculum, come with a hefty price tag. Playing in the mud, walking hand in hand and singing in harmony is anything else but a free-for-all!
Consequently, parents habitually rush out of the house in a scrambling haste every morning, grabbing lunch boxes, lab tops and little ones on their way. If one of them decided to resist the insanity, it usually means that the other, whether mom or dad, is mercilessly thrown into the claws of a demanding around-the clock carrier across the seven skies.
Come to think of it, this scenario resembles crisis much more than care!
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