Every morning Sylvie* wakes up and wonders if her nine-year-old son Jack* will make it to school that day.
“We count down to the holidays,” says Sylvie. “We count down to the end of each school day with the promise of a surf.” The Victorian mother of two jokes that she’s not sure if that counts as bribery or “perspective”, but she does know that ever since Jack started resisting going to school, the “jury is out on everything”.
