To allow her child not to get up at dawn on Wednesday morning and to avoid a day at the summer camp, Hélène Bastou has opted for teleworking. In agreement with her boss, on Wednesdays, she stays at home, near Nîmes. Her 6-year-old daughter understood the contract: “She knows she can get up later and have breakfast on her own. I have everything prepared. If she hears me talking, I’m on the phone or on video. » And the watchword is clear: “No disturbing me. » Well aware that this somewhat military organization is not perfect, this project manager, who lives alone during the week (her companion works 300 kilometers away), is one of those who, every Wednesday, take on professional and family tasks. on the same time slot.
Most are independent and excellent in the art of juggling between private life and the professional sphere. A truly “spiritual gymnastics” believes Marine Avias, alias Mademoiselle Tip in the professional environment. Mother of four children, this interior designer in the Hérault is a specialist in anticipation: “It’s like sport, the more you train, the more muscular you are! Now I’m used to it. When I’m with my children, I’m totally with them, out of the question of working, but while they’re at their activities, or when I’m in the car, I respond to a client, I follow up on the site. »
These mothers, since it is mainly about them, have become aces of the change of cap: at 10:10 am, they are mothers to bring the eldest to training; at 10:25 a.m., from their car, they take up the last file in progress and, an hour and a half later, they manage lunch with the family, with the laptop at hand – ” We never know “, comments Laure (the first name has been changed). Freelance journalist in Rennes, she recognizes herself “Completely in this Gruyère timetable”. She readily admits to falling into what she calls “traps”, “like phone calls while[elle est] in the changing rooms of the swimming pool”. “I dare not answer and I see my daughter rolling my eyes at me”, she reports. Her daughter, Eléonore, 9 years old, does not really understand the boundary between her mother’s working hours and the time she is available: “She says she doesn’t work on Wednesdays, but in fact she’s always online. She spends a lot of time on the phone or takes her computer to take me to sports. And it often happens that we cancel an activity because, ultimately, it has to work. » His little brother, Paul, 7 years old, “finds that mom works all the time, even on Sundays”. “But she still tries to play with ushe nuances. And I prefer to be at home than in the summer camp, even if my friends go there. »
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