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[quote=Anonymous]Hey op I think your post summed up a lot of hardship women faced during school lockdown.  Women balancing work and childcare while husbands shut themselves importantly in their offices.  It’s a bad dynamic and it sucks and talking to your DH just leads to a fight sometimes.  Ugh.

I agree with others that if you know your kiddo is going to be home, the fair thing is for you and DH to divide up the day.  Remind him that you both have equally important jobs.  Make a schedule if you need to.  Then act lack a man and hole up in your room with the door closed and a “do not disturb” sign on it.

My DH is in the military and often gone. When we had our snow days this year, I told my boss “I’m taking leave.  It’s not good for either my child’s emotional health or mine to pretend I can take care of him while I’m working.”  My boss is a mom and totally gets it.  I ended up working in the mornings and taking off in the afternoons.  In the morning he’s more content to hang around and play Minecraft, and I’d also always have a class scheduled for him on www.outschool.com, which is amazing resource btw.  By lunch, he’s hungry and restless, so I’d sign off work and feed him and take him to the sled hill to meet friends.  This worked well for us and might be a model you can use if you can’t get DH on board.

Good luck and hang in there! Shout out to ALL the moms out there who are continuing to deal with rolling school closures while trying to work.  It’s not easy and we are all goddamm heroes.  [/quote]

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