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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think 21:23 explained in great detail how other families with two WOH parents do it.  You are Feds.  Ask to telework. Use your annual leave to attend your kids' activities.

My DH and I are both Feds.  We live in Silver Spring.  One does the early shift, the other the later shift as 21:23 described.  We usually only see our kids between 6 and bedtime, but we do take annual leave to attend school parties or go on field trips with the kids.  Maybe you need to find a more family friendly fed office, but no one blinks in our offices when we say we have to miss work for a Valentines Day party.[/quote]

OP here, we have misfortune to both work Fed offices which do not allow telework. Period. We shift our schedules some and AWS is available (but AWS is a rigid schedule -- can't shift to accommodate school events that pop up at various days of week so not really helpful).

What our DC is lamenting how many parents are in school 4 days a week for reading or visiting during lunch; I am just trying to arrange dropping off a form for school hours to the office, and that requires taking 2 hours of leave b/c it doesn't open until I am supposed to be at work (again, fixed schedules are required) and then I have to commute to work. Just drop off form (this is special case,most things with student,but this one can't). And coming in for a lunch would be 30 min commute - 45 min lunch & logistics - 30 min commute.

We will try tips, and maybe things will improve as we earn more leave. Right now most of our annual leave is consumed visiting family and covering days the school is close and we have no available camps.

My colleagues seem to make it work with parents, or relying on neighbors who are SAHM, or one spouse working very close to home & school.  I guess our long term plan is to find more flexible, closer jobs -- though that has been pursued in the past and this is the best we have managed -- and when we started in Fed service,we thought telework would be available after all the promotion of it by Obama administration,but clearly its all about the management perspective.

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