Reborn 1980: Good Wife Gets Rich and Busy

Chapter 2254 Parenting is Difficult

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Xinzhi accompanied Xue Xin to drink porridge in the large dining room.

The little tiger yawned belatedly and muttered: "Good morning!"

Xue Xin looked suspicious: "Isn't it? Brother Huzi, you just got up at this hour? Where is Xiaoxiaohu? You don't have to go to class today?"

"Went to school in the morning." Xiao Huzi explained: "I had breakfast with him early in the morning, and then personally sent him to the school gate. It was only after seven o'clock when I got back after sending him off. I was still terribly sleepy, so I simply took a nap and went back to the cage. Sleep."

Chen Xinzhi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Old Chen is not here today?"

"Here he is." Xiao Huzi smiled bitterly: "The boy insisted that I send him off this morning because his classmates laughed at him for not having a parent to pick him up. I sent him there specially to save his face."

Xue Xin felt secretly distressed when she heard this and asked, "Did the classmates laugh at him? Really?"

Xiao Huzi explained helplessly: "Boys of this age are all heartless. Not only do they love to compete, but they also love to find out the mistakes of their classmates. His grades are not very good, and his classmates will not give him face. I usually see him He only had a driver to pick him up, so he laughed at his father for being unloved by his mother. The little guy couldn't help crying when he was frustrated, so I had to pick him up when I had time. I said, I still pick him up in the morning, and I might not be able to make it in the afternoon, so let him Lao Chen will pick him up."

"So that's it." Xue Xin couldn't help but advise: "If you have time, you can pick him up and accompany him more often."

Little Huzi is a father and a mother at the same time. He was originally a free-spirited person, but he was completely frustrated by life.

"As long as I can stay away from home, I will never miss his school activities and parent-teacher meetings. It's just... there are so many things at school! When we were in school, we would only have one parent-teacher meeting once a semester at most. Now, Not only are there parent-teacher meetings, parent-child meetings, and sports meetings, there are so many different kinds of meetings! There are also crafts, paintings, festivals and festivals - so many that I can’t even count them! Occasionally I really want to go to the parents’ group Let’s roar and shout a few times! Really! Parents don’t just stay at home and sleep after sending their children to school every day! Parents also want to make money, and they all have to go out early and come back late to work!”

In my grandparents' generation, a pair of parents would have seven or eight children.If they had to raise each child like today's children, would they still dare to have seven or eight children?Both are too many!
Little Huzi is now dealing with a child all by himself. He is already overwhelmed and exhausted!
Xue Xin was filled with emotion and muttered: "It's true now... There is a working mother in the company. Her child is seven or eight years old. She rushes to work and off work every day. Sometimes she doesn't even comb her hair and can't put on her clothes. It’s in season, and the makeup is hard to describe, which looks quite embarrassing. The HR said that she often has to ask for leave, and she occasionally has to ask for various parent-teacher conferences and activities twice a month. Many HRs insist on recruiting single women, and all married women are eligible. The rejection was all because my mother’s working hours were not stable.”

"It's not that people doubt that working mothers are incompetent." Xiao Huzi shrugged: "It's that the reality is too cruel. Working mothers don't have so much time to work overtime, and they have to take time off from time to time because of their children. Nowadays, families with many children generally have to have one person take care of them full time. Baby, take the baby to and from school and deal with all kinds of trivial matters at school."

"It's so miserable~~" Xue Xin muttered: "Fortunately we didn't have to do this when we were young, otherwise my mother might not be able to become President Xue."

Xiao Huzi chuckled and said: "Auntie will probably become President Xue, but Uncle Ayuan may not even be able to do business and will have to be the head of the family."

"What a tragedy!" Xue Xin couldn't bear to imagine.

Although Chen Xinzhi spoke little, he also agreed with what they said.

"In the past, factories had family homes. Basically, one person made money, and the whole family could barely feed and clothe themselves. Most mothers were housewives, taking care of the elderly, taking care of the children, and doing hygiene and meals. When the children were older, mothers would do odd jobs to earn money. , to help subsidize the family. Things are different now, everything costs money for food, drink, housing and transportation. House loans, car loans and various loans have forced mothers to go out to find jobs. They can’t take care of the family and can’t do a good job. It’s very not easy."

Xue Xin was curious after hearing this and asked: "Family homes? It's the employee dormitories, right? Anyone who works in the unit can get it, right?" "Most factories have family homes." Chen Xinzhi explained: "Some are built by the units. Some units and individuals jointly financed the construction. The houses were not big and very crowded, but that was how they lived back then. The units had family homes to solve the housing problem. The units had good benefits, and they could also get suites of good size."

"That's right!" Xiao Huzi explained: "My dad said that in the past, the work unit would allocate housing. He was not married at first, so he was not ranked in the housing allocation. Later, he quit his job to make money with his aunt, and then he started to buy commercial housing. He also said, The first batch of commercial housing in Rongcheng were those along the river, and most of them were developed by my aunt."

Speaking of this, Xiao Huzi couldn't help complaining: "Commercial housing was cheap at that time, but it's ridiculously expensive now! Everything is expensive now! Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all expensive! Children's education, buying a house, medical care... It seems like There really isn’t anything cheap. Last week, when my little tiger had a cough, I bought a bottle of Sichuan clam or something like that for children’s cough – 56 yuan! It’s just a small bottle! A pacifier costs dozens of yuan, and a bottle costs 200 yuan! The price is ridiculously expensive !”

Xue Xin nodded and smiled.

"We... weren't we talking about children just now? Why did we come to the topic of social pressure while we were talking?"

"It's very reasonable!" Xiao Huzi said: "I am a father who can make money, but I am still worried about raising children. It can be seen that those who make little or no money, how should they raise their children? Isn’t this just social pressure?”

"It's so stressful." Xue Xin rubbed her belly, "I don't even dare to have a second child."

Chen Xinzhi reminded me in a funny way: "It's not too late to give birth to the first child safely before worrying about the second child. You, you are unfounded."

Xiaohuzi didn't dare to stay too long, so he had breakfast and went to work.

Xue Xin didn't sleep well last night. After drinking a few mouthfuls of porridge, she planned to go back to her room to catch up on her sleep.

"Wait!" Chen Xinzhi stopped her and explained: "The medicine is almost ready. Drink it before going to catch up on your sleep."

Xue Xin looked around and asked, "My second brother hasn't come back yet, has he?"

"No." Chen Xinzhi replied: "I went out at three or four in the morning, and I probably won't be back until evening."

Xue Xin felt secretly distressed when she heard this: "He has been really busy and tired recently. Second sister-in-law, there is no need to be uneasy. How can a really busy person have so much time to spend!"

Chen Xinzhi frowned slightly and asked, "What? Is Xiaoxiao really so worried?"

“Yes!”

(End of this chapter)