Rookery Haus

A rookery is the colony where penguins raise their young side by side. This is that, for a household and everyone who helps look after a child. When more than one person cares for a child, the hard part is not the caring. It is staying in step. What happened this morning. Whether he ate, and when he last slept. What the last person started and did not finish. Who is coming tomorrow, and what was agreed. Rookery Haus is where all of that lives, so nobody has to ask and nobody has to remember. FOR A CAREGIVER This is not something kept about you. It is the thing that protects you. Domestic work goes wrong through ambiguity, and an account of your shift written down as it happened is the answer to a question asked later. • Clock in and clock out. Your hours, your overtime and what you are owed, visible to you and never a surprise. • Write up a nap, a meal, a walk or a note in one tap, with…