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[quote=Anonymous]I think the challenge here is that when you are a working mom, when your kids transition into elementary school and beyond, you choose schools and activities that work for you and DH's work and travel schedule. It's incredibly difficult to reverse this process and find a job plus help that will accommodate multiple different schools/drop-offs/pick-ups/activities, especially if you are new to the role and don't have the seniority to flex hours, WFH, and/or have one day that you leave early to get Larla to soccer. Not to mention you will need to find care for all summer, school holidays, spring break, etc... because you may not have the seniority to have your pick of time off, depending on the role.

I think if you want to do this, which is great, you have to accept that for a while it will take a lot of extra help, and you have to pay a lot for that help when it means driving, until you can transition kids into activities that work better for a two-working parent household, and even then you will probably need some nanny coverage at home, unless you want to drag all three kids to each activity. Families manage this all the time, but they are usually doing it the traditional way which is that working parents only sign kids up for the stuff they can manage around their work schedules. [/quote]

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