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Caring for your infant can be magical and mind-expanding, but it’s labour too. We all need respite from the rat race, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
If I take a sabbatical from my career and go work for a charity, I’m still taking a year off from my original job. What you do with the time is irrelevant to the language used.
Should people get parental leave? … absolutely.
Is it “time off” from your job? … Yes.
Are they taking a holiday? … No.
Probably bcz you don’t know what raising a tiny human entails.
If I take a sabbatical from my career and go work for a charity, I’m still taking a year off from my original job. What you do with the time is irrelevant to the language used.
Should people get parental leave? … absolutely. Is it “time off” from your job? … Yes. Are they taking a holiday? … No.
It might be a time off from employment but it’s not time off. It’s not a fucking holiday.
That’s what they said… It’s semantics. People associating “time off” with holiday for no reason when they don’t mean the same thing.
holiday = time off work where you spend your time watching after your children
Can you read?