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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have one kid. You can spare some time for her. No one works straight 9 hours in a row with no breaks. You and your husband should stagger your breaks and spread time reading with her. Get her outside. Cook lunch with her.[/quote]

This. Do whatever it takes for you AND your husband (not just mom!) to get more flexible during the day. What are your jobs that you both are working every minute of every hour? You refer to it as "inflexible telework" but what exactly is inflexible -- must you, as one PP said, actually be in front of a camera Zooming for nine hours every day and always from 8 to 5? Can either or both of you stagger your work schedules around, one of you starting and ending the work day much earlier than the other, or one of you working a block of morning hours but then being off for a chunk of the afternoons and restarting work for a few hours in late afternoon-early evening-, etc --? Without knowing what this work is you and your DH do, it's hard to make any suggestions. Not many jobs any more are so very rigid that a parent must be in the seat exactly 8 to 5.

You can of course try a nanny or a college-age or teenage sitter. You will have to do some serious interviewing about coronavirus protection and distancing and what that person actually, honestly does when not with you (depending on how your family feels about distancing/masks/exposures). But if you do hire someone, it will take time. And in the meantime you and your spouse need to work out more ways to make breaks in the day and use them with your child. [/quote]

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