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Working parents with young school kids…how do you pull it off?
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:00 am
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:00 am
Wife (no pics) works 8-5
I have some flex in my schedule but I go in early, get off @3:30. Could get off at 3 but would be cutting it close getting to kids school
Kids are 9 & 6. Wife gets them on the bus. School lets out @3:30. Too young to stay home alone after school so they go to aftercare.
So we’re paying ~$500/mth for them to take the bus there, wait for 20 minutes & I pick them up. That shite ain’t sittin well
What do you guys do? Give a brother some alternatives! Lol
I have some flex in my schedule but I go in early, get off @3:30. Could get off at 3 but would be cutting it close getting to kids school
Kids are 9 & 6. Wife gets them on the bus. School lets out @3:30. Too young to stay home alone after school so they go to aftercare.
So we’re paying ~$500/mth for them to take the bus there, wait for 20 minutes & I pick them up. That shite ain’t sittin well
What do you guys do? Give a brother some alternatives! Lol
This post was edited on 11/17/21 at 10:01 am
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:01 am to Schmelly
Marriage counseling...
Side: are your kids not playing sports or some other after school activities? and you left out homework and study time... and dinner...
Try throwing that in....
Side: are your kids not playing sports or some other after school activities? and you left out homework and study time... and dinner...
Try throwing that in....
This post was edited on 11/17/21 at 10:13 am
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:01 am to Schmelly
Get a college girl to help
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:02 am to Hangover Haven
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Marriage counseling...
Sorry to hear that lol
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:02 am to djangochained
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Get a college girl to help
…marriage counseling
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:02 am to Schmelly
Ive turned down raises, promotions and job offers to work from home.
I get 6 weeks of PTO and I make my own hours from my house. I bring our daughter to school every day and am home when she gets off the bus. We talk, we run together, listen to christmas music in the car every day (yes, even in August), talk about whats going on, etc.
I would have to be offered AT LEAST twice what I make for me to even consider giving all that up
I get 6 weeks of PTO and I make my own hours from my house. I bring our daughter to school every day and am home when she gets off the bus. We talk, we run together, listen to christmas music in the car every day (yes, even in August), talk about whats going on, etc.
I would have to be offered AT LEAST twice what I make for me to even consider giving all that up
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:03 am to Schmelly
quote:trashy. mothers should be at home.
Working parents with young school kids
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:03 am to Schmelly
Go to work 30 min earlier, pick them up from school. Pocket $450, blow other $50 on a beej from a hooker on the way home. PROFIT
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:03 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Hear hear
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:04 am to Schmelly
Find a babysitter or a teenager to be at your house for a few minutes until you get home. Your kids can ride the bus home, have someone there and then you can come home shortly after.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:05 am to Schmelly
I'm not sure how we did it, but now that mine is away at college I am half-way missing it. Other days I enjoy the hell out of new found free time and less responsibility.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:05 am to Bjorn Cyborg
This - theres at least one nerdy teenager in your neighborhood who doesn't play sports or anything and would love to be paid 10 bucks a day to sit on your couch and look at tiktok
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:05 am to LSUfan4444
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Ive turned down raises, promotions and job offers to work from home.
I get 6 weeks of PTO and I make my own hours from my house. I bring our daughter to school every day and am home when she gets off the bus. We talk, we run together, listen to christmas music in the car every day (yes, even in August), talk about whats going on, etc.
I would have to be offered AT LEAST twice what I make for me to even consider giving all that up
I can do a work/home split. Basically leave early, finish from the house. But I’m new, not pushing that just yet. This may work though
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:07 am to YumYum Sauce
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This - theres at least one nerdy teenager in your neighborhood who doesn't play sports or anything and would love to be paid 10 bucks a day to sit on your couch and look at tiktok
Lol, could work. Might have to put some feelers out there
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:08 am to Schmelly
I hear ya...at times, it's really frustrating knowing I am over qualified for my job and Im overworked because people know they can lean on me and I'll normally just do it but in the end, I do it for her and for my wife and our time together.
I work to live the life I want and I'd rather get frustrated at work and enjoy what it provides for me than give up things I think are really more valuable.
I had to bum rides to and from baseball practice and games as a kid, now I get to coach my daughters teams. No dollar amount can be put on that to me and her.
I work to live the life I want and I'd rather get frustrated at work and enjoy what it provides for me than give up things I think are really more valuable.
I had to bum rides to and from baseball practice and games as a kid, now I get to coach my daughters teams. No dollar amount can be put on that to me and her.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:08 am to YumYum Sauce
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This - theres at least one nerdy teenager in your neighborhood who doesn't play sports or anything and would love to be paid 10 bucks a day to sit on your couch and look at tiktok
Bonus: Pay them to help with the homework and have all that shite done before you get home.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:09 am to Schmelly
Luckily I work from home so no biggie, kids are 4 and 6, both in elementary school. Also lucky, sorta planned, that one set of grandparents lives in our neighborhood and another not too far down the road.
People that dont have family around and work 9-5s at the office, I feel bad for you, outside of paying out the arse for daycare there arent many options.
People that dont have family around and work 9-5s at the office, I feel bad for you, outside of paying out the arse for daycare there arent many options.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:09 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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mothers should be at home.
While this is probably the best case scenario, with the cost of living today, that's almost impossible...
When I grew up my mom didn't go to worker after I was in HS, where we didn't need my mother staying home and needed to move kids back and forth all the time.
and with the woman's lib BS in the 70's, women wanted to be "career women" double incomes in families became more abundant and spending went out the window. Now society is use to this way of life and there's no way out of it...
This post was edited on 11/17/21 at 10:23 am
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:10 am to Schmelly
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Lol, could work. Might have to put some feelers out there
Church groups are easy, as well as HOA email chains.
Posted on 11/17/21 at 10:10 am to LSUfan4444
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6 weeks of PTO
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I make my own hours from my house. I bring our daughter to school every day and am home when she gets off the bus
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Im overworked
LOL. Slow down there Chief.
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