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[quote=Anonymous]For most of my daughter's life, I've been the one with a more flexible telework arrangement.  My company lets us telework on sick days, snow days and school holidays and they don't really care if kids are around as long as the work gets done.  If I can get 6 hours of work done on such a day (usually by starting earlier and ending later and having frequent breaks), nobody cares about the missing 2 hours.  We make it up during the busy times anyway - I don't get paid overtime, but working evenings/weekends is not unusual.  Anyway, because I've had more flexibility, I took the lion's share of sick/snow days.  For school holidays that I don't have off, my ex sometimes has them off because the govt is closed too.  He takes her for those.

My ex now has a very flexible telework arrangement, so he may start taking more of the days.  Then we'll just figure it out by who has to be in the office urgently vs. who doesn't.

Most ages of kids are pretty easy to entertain on a snow day.  Put on a few movies, provide the occasional food and you're good to go.  Even better if you can have a friend drop off their same-aged child - my kid bothers me 75% less when she has a friend over. [/quote]

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