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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I started going back to the office in early October and my kids, ages 3 and 7, are having a really hard time with the fact that they are seeing us so much less. We spent so much time together during Covid and despite how hard the isolation was for everyone, the quality family time was really amazing (don’t get me wrong, it was incredibly challenging too).

My kids are acting out a ton, extremely clingy and cry a lot about missing us so much. My older one is angry and very frustrated. We are only in the office 3 days each (and staggered) but we are gone from 8-5:30 and it feels like a lot. I totally get it and feel horrible that they feel this way, but short of one of us quitting our job (which just isn’t possible) there really isn’t anything we can do to change the fact that we work in an office that requires us to be in-person.

Prior to Covid DH and I were in the office 5 days a week for longer hours but the kids just didn’t know any different back then so it was what it was. But now that they’ve had a taste of us being around much more they hate when we are gone.

Anyone else going through this?[/quote]

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