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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are much older now (ages 8, 11, 14) but I have stayed home since my oldest was born.

So much of this depends on how much money you have and how much you like spending time with your kids. I don’t mean that in a negative way at all, you can be a great mom and still have lots of time away from your kids. I personally hated leaving mine with anyone, my kids all nursed till 2 and never took bottles and I just wanted to be with them all the time.

I sometimes had a sitter one morning a week - a neighborhood nanny whose charges started preschool so she had mornings free. I basically used the morning to go to doctors appts, volunteer ant school, and sometimes when pregnant, I would just sleep! It was helpful to have someone familiar with the baby and the house, we used her for occasional date nights too.

Kids all did co-op preschool starting at age 2. 2 mornings a week at 2, 3 mornings at 3, 4 mornings at 3/4.

Mornings, my DH was usually around so he would help, but otherwise everyone just came with me. All 3 would walk the to elementary school, baby and I would take middle to preschool an hour later on days she had it. Lots of easy breakfasts and sometimes it was a hot mess. Younger two still in PJs bundled in blankets in the double stroller for the walk to school with a sippy cup of milk and a handful of graham crackers.

For activities, mainly just the oldest did activities, or the younger ones did them while the oldest was at school. So we did mommy and me gymnastics or music class at a rec center on a morning the middle didn’t have preschool. Oldest did one activity at a time after school starting in K, and younger siblings would tag along. There was usually a playground at soccer practice or wherever. When middle hit K, same deal - they each did one activity a week, hopefully on different days! Now my DH works from home a lot, it would have been nice if he had started that earlier and I could have left a kid or two home at 5pm when heading out for baseball practice. Sometimes I would get the older two in swimming lessons at the same time/place and I would just occupy the youngest.

Dinners were usually very quickly thrown together, no gourmet cooking with a toddler around. I would try to prep veggies during nap time or the night before when I had energy. Kids just played while I cooked, or often they would help! Sometimes crock pot meals on days we would be out in the evenings. A lot of picnic style dinners at a soccer or baseball field while a kid had practice.

I am surprised a 7 year old has homework, that doesn’t seem appropriate for that age. And if it is so difficult that they require you to sit there with them and help them?? Yikes. I would be looking for another school. But if this is the norm where you live, I would try to occupy the younger two with some quiet toys and just sit with the older kid at the dining room table. [/quote]

Agree completely that homework for age 7 is unfortunate.  But this is the norm for us at our MCPS school :([/quote]

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