For years, on Mondays and Fridays, Marni Turner would spend two hours driving her boys to and from preschool. “I would drive a half an hour … to drop my kid and drive half an hour back to work, and then I would either have my mum pick them up in the afternoon or I would just have a short day and drive back again and pick them up.”
Turner, a psychologist, lives on a cattle farm just outside Guyra, a town 40km north of the New South Wales city of Armidale. Her youngest child started primary school this year, so the family’s mad childcare juggle is finally finished.
