It’s amazing how years of operating under a particular set of circumstances makes you forget certain options when you’re problem-solving. After 13 years of arranging the constant care of one’s minions, from birth, it feels unnatural to incorporate “no supervision” into the repertoire. Yet it shouldn’t be, and it’s a prompt to start thinking outside the “minor” box in a range of different minion-related matters.
Mrs G and I have been preparing for the coming school holidays, and since we both work full-time, we have to arrange care for the minions. Grandparents have never been a reliable option, as they’re variously not local, fully occupied with running businesses or still teaching. A series of school changes means that we don’t know any of the minions’ friends’ parents well enough yet to consider them as holiday carers.
So, we got the local YMCA vacation care program details, and that all looked OK, and we started filling out the enrolment forms. At that point I noticed that the program is “for primary school aged children only”, and we have a secondary aged minion. Uh-oh, spaghettios!
