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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of ugliness in this thread, and I’m choosing to believe most of it is from trolls or people who are intentionally antagonistic.

Many women who are moms of young kids today came into the work world as things were becoming increasingly flexible.  Now we see a backlash and retraction on flexibility.  It might have been easy for people 10-15 or more years ago to deal with this because this is how it always was.  Now, we have seen it can be different and that business owners and political leaders who are typically rich men are choosing to take flexibility away from the masses.[/quote]

Right! I’m a millennial and this is the first time in my entire working life that I have zero flexibility. And at the same time, dh also lost all flexibility. Like we can’t even telework when very contagious. We aren’t even allowed to work telework while on business trips.

Dh and I likely wouldn’t have had a second or third child if we knew our lives would be this miserable. We had pleasant lives just 1.5 years ago and had no issue juggling. Something has to give and it feels like schools are our biggest pain points. It’s just insane to me how they get to cancel for the threat of snow. Or for every election and random holiday. More consistent schooling is needed. And 8 hours a day of school. Kids are consistently falling behind while also having no time for recess or lunch. [/quote]

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