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[quote=Anonymous]Depends how old your kids are. Mine are mid to upper elementary. Each parent working from home a couple days a week is key. If both parents can't, then at least one parent. We use after care to bridge the gap from school dismissal at 3 pm to when activities start around 4:30 or 5. The parent working from home picks up the kids and takes them to the activity and picks them up after. The parent in the office gets home around 5:45 or 6 and has dinner on the table by 6:30. Sometimes this means dinner is very simple, like frittata and salad, or pasta and shrimp. Fish and chicken also cook up quickly. At this point I have refined my repertoire of things I can get on the table in 30-40 mins. I like cooking more involved dishes but save those for Friday or weekend nights.

When the kids were very little, in day care, and DH and I both worked in the office 5 days a week, we'd stagger schedules slightly so I went in earlier and got home earlier to make dinner. But sometimes I cooked dinner the night before so we could reheat. It's hard. I don't miss those days at all.

If you can't work from home, then not having too long a commute is also key. My commute is 45 mins on a good day and an hour on a bad day - and that is from a close-in MD suburb to downtown, via metro. Fortunately I am now in the office only 2 days a week and home 3 days a week which makes everything much easier. We also do about half the kids' activities on weekend mornings, because there just isn't enough time to do them all after school (especially since the kids have different interests - much easier if you can get them into the same activities at the same time). And as homework picks up they need to do fewer weeknight activities.[/quote]

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