The Korea Times
For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, summer break is associated with a significant drop in earnings and work hours. This tightens already tight family budgets and adds to the gender pay gap, as fathers don’t tend to reduce work hours in the summer. Then there’s the financial (and administrative) obligation of patching together camps that cost hundreds of dollars per week, per child. Some of my girlfriends have color-coded Excel files to keep all the camps and activities straight. If only. Because I normally miss the first hour of signup in the depths of January (truly, who can keep it all straight), my boys are the ones stuck in line-dancing and weaving lessons instead of the hit camps like Lego-building or zoology. Carting around unhappy campers in 100-degree weather and squeezing work into a shorter window is not exactly being poolside with a marg. Then there’s learning loss; studies find that students backslide by around 20% over the summer, and more in lower-income families. This h
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