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[quote=Anonymous]My wife and I both have demanding careers and work 60+ hours a week, and we have three kids in elementary school.

We do have a full-time nanny and it is still VERY hard. It's harder now than it was when kids were smaller. The activities are a killer. Our nanny helps with some shuttling around a couple of a days a week, but unless we have her work until 9 PM every day we end up doing a ton of back and forth. The scheduling, figuring out who is driving where, etc., is very challenging. We could schedule less but don't want to limit their activities.

I do feel like we are failing on the school front. Our kids are in good schools and doing fine, but they do not study on their own or do any work beyond the bare minimum. Our summer plan is to convince our oldest (5th grade) that he has to take more ownership or he will not be successful in middle/high-school. But with demanding schedules (home at 6 PM, shuttling kids around, everyone home by 8-9 PM, bed, wife and I back at our desks for work until 11 PM), there is very little time to micromanage homework. So to me, this is a current failure that if we don't address will be a big problem. Seems that it would be easier with 1-2 kids than 3, just because of the volume, and we can't outsource homework management to our nanny.

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