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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Appreciate the feedback. We’re definitely doing an earlier bedtime, we’ll see if that helps.

For those of you saying “eliminate aftercare if you can” - how are people doing that? Serious question. Unless you have a stay at home parent, family nearby who can help, or the money for your own nanny indefinitely, what’s the other option? It seems like most people don’t have any of those things (including us - my mom is several states away). We dug into savings to afford 18 months of our own nanny for our two kids, after having done a nanny share for our first before #2 came along. We had to move back to a share for the youngest ASAP for financial reasons - keeping our own nanny would cost us an extra $3000 a month. After care is $400. That’s ENORMOUS savings. Is there some other option here I’m not seeing? We do both have pretty flexible jobs, but not flexible enough to leave at 3 every day, or even half the days. And I feel like we need to save our flexibility for the endless sick days I know are coming our way. [/quote]

I’m one who’s skipping aftercare (after having paid for it ugh).  How we do it: Spouse does drop off for daycare (opens at 7:30) and school (ready for kids at 8:10 while I work 8-3.  Spouse gets to work by 9.  I pick my prek3 kid at 3 and take her home for a snack, usually finishing up work stuff while she eats it.  Then I bring her to pick up her brother from daycare at 4, we all come home have dinner/bath/bed for the kids and then I do a bit more work around 9-10 before going to bed myself.  It works because my job is flexible enough I can leave at 3 (most people I work with are in Europe so I almost never have meetings in the afternoon) and the school is literally across the street so pickup isn’t very time consuming.  That being said it’s pretty exhausting and I’m hoping we can ease back into aftercare once she adjusts a bit for at least a couple days a week.[/quote]

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