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[quote=Anonymous]Talk to your employer about flexible work.  My employer allows me to work any 80 hours over each 2 week period as long as I get the work done and show up for meetings.  My spouse can work credit hours (up to 24) and use them for leave any time over the  year (credit hours do not roll over the calendar year).  So, when our kids were small and in daycare, my wife worked extra hours as much as possible early on and tried to max out her credit hours.  When the kids were sick, we time shifted so that we were non-overlapping and I would have some short days, but as long as I made up the time before the end of the pay period, I was okay.  And my wife would use her credit hours.  When the kids were healthy and back in daycare, she would work evenings to build up her credit hour bank again.  But we always juggled to make sure that if either of us had work commitments that we tried to make sure we both met our commitments.

We did have one period when the kids were home where we shifted.  My wife would work from 6am to 2pm and I would work from 2pm-10pm.  It wasn't optimal, and fortunately it was relatively short, but we made it work, thanks to very accommodating bosses and jobs.  It's hard, but start by talking to your employers and finding out what options there are for flexible work and then see if there is a way to make it work between you.  Fortunately, this is only when the kids can't go to daycare.  But it's very unfortunate that due to Covid, this is happening a lot more than it used to.

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