Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of Hell

Death, taxes, and the yearly panicked scramble for summer child care, these are the only real guarantees in a parent’s life. And here it is, almost July again and I’m thinking, Shit, is school already over? Where are the kids gonna go? Just like I did this time last year. Just like I’ll probably do a year from now. If you have school-age kids then you already know that the patchwork of care that you managed to assemble at the start of the year ...