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[quote=Anonymous]I have done this for many summers. For the toddler years, I enjoyed working 3-4 days in summer then having Fridays and sometimes Mondays off. I've enjoyed it even more as my kids have gotten older, having a bunch of weeks off in summer. When work has been too busy, I only took off for trips, but the best summers have been when I've saved up enough time to take off weeks at a time when we're not going anywhere. Then we really get to enjoy DC. museums, folk life festival, Kennedy center millennium stage free concerts, other park concerts, ball games, etc. And then just a bunch of days at the pool. I had to make a deal with my boss last summer to work a couple hours each night and some of weekends so we wouldn't lose progress on a project and it was still worth it to have daytimes flexible. Also not bad to work in the hottest part of the day so kids has l can have downtime, too, even when post naps.

If you're an extrovert or have extrovert kids, I highly recommend finding out other families who have a similar schedule or flexibility. It can be hard as they kids get older and all the neighbors kids are in camps.[/quote]

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