09.01.08
Traumatic first day
Today was the day Leo, 10 months’ old, paid his first visit to the nursery.
Here in Spain, statutory maternity leave only lasts four months. After that it’s unpaid. I won’t get into how dreadful a policy I believe that to be.
My wife and I decided that, with Leo, we could afford for mummy to stay off work until the start of the new academic year - she’s a teacher. Her career is important to her (as mine is to me) so there was always going to be a trade off. This morning I took the bitter pill and dropped him off at the nursery.
He didn’t cry, which was a blessing, but when I picked him up two hours later his little face told me that he hadn’t appreciated it. He seems to have forgiven me, but then there’s tomorrow. The modern world gives babies a hard time.
