Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• The great school holiday juggle: Who’s actually getting a break? (spoiler alert - it’s not mums)

Australia’s unpaid labour is worth $688 billion and women are doing most of it.

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In this episode we cover: school holidays and the mental load, invisible labour and emotional burnout, working motherhood, overstimulation, default parent culture, the cost of school holiday activities, juggling work and care, mum guilt and overwhelm, why women absorb the planning and prep, and how families can actually survive the holiday juggle without losing their minds.

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This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation,  the land on which we’re lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent, and you can too.

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