What do parents who work full time do when theres no school?

[Anonymous]

We suffer. I took leave and was home over Xmas break. Very trying.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know of any camps that align with the catholic school calendar? All the camps around us revolve around ffx schedule and unfortunately our Catholic school has a different spring break and teacher work days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny.

8 hrs with a nanny??

[Anonymous]

Summer babysitter. Your high-school babysitter or another high school or college student could work FT during July and August if your camps are over then.

[Anonymous]

aftercare/camps/sitters. I'm still just figuring this out but a lot of my colleagues with older kids have a regular afterschool sitter or sitters during the school year who can do pickup, take the kid to activities, etc. And then for backup care, they have sitters oncall or take leave. We ended up taking a TON of leave due to illness in daycare; we're seeing things improve as kids approach school age. Summer daycamps tend to patchworked with family vacation. And there are camps that cover springbreak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We both took more flexible, slightly lower paying jobs. We could both absolutely earn more money, but we would have to pay for a nanny with it.

I took a huge paycut two years ago - my job was predictable, but not flexible. I now work from home 95% of the time. I am back up to 93% of my salary and am so much more relaxed. Before I started, I had ZERO hours of leave. I now am at the use it or lose it point, so I can take vacation when I need to.

My DH works from home as well (100%). He could make more money - but would rather spend time with our young family at this point. We are fortunate that we have the option.

For the summer, we will do some type of camps. Everything else, we either take the time off (Christmas, Spring Break). For one offs, we just work from home. I make sure that he can cover me if I have meetings I need to call into, and vice versa.

So defensive sounding.

[Anonymous]

We don't have a school aged child yet but our daycare follows the Federal leave schedule with a few half days around Catholic holidays (e.g. Good Friday), then one week off between Christams and New Year's and another week off in August. I work the Federal schedule, so I take those days off. DH gets the week between Christmas and New Year's off, so he takes those days. We split the half days, and use the week in August for our family vacation. We split sick days, as well.

DH also has backup care through work, but we haven't had to use it yet.