As restrictions ease and children start going back to school, we are also faced with a new level of anxiety about returning to the world we used to know
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The week before Sally Campbell sent her year 1 student back to school was a big worry week. The Sydney mother had been trying to manage home schooling her daughter, caring for her 4-year-old son and working four days a week as a safety adviser in charge of the Covid-19 plan at a large manufacturing plant – while her husband worked full-time outside the home – and found it entirely impossible.
She took on the advice of her GP and closely monitored news about infection rates and the safety of schools. Eventually, Campbell decided to send her daughter back to school in week one of term two. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” she says. “I pondered and mulled it over for a good couple of weeks.”
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