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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been going in for 25 years.  Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time.  Yes I have been promoted many many times. [/quote]

Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions. [/quote]

DP.  I had my first kid in 2003 and we didn’t have telework until 2015.  No family either to help.  50 min commute for me, so I started at 6am and had afternoon/evening kid duty, and my husband had mornings.  Until he took a job in DC with a newly 2 hour commute.  Had to get creative there.

So it helps if you and your spouse can juggle hours like that.  But still we had to do before-and after-care at the school.  Which was also open for school holidays, early dismissals, many snow days.

Camps in the summer.  My daughter practically lived at her gymnastics gym the entire summer with camps and their before and after care.

My kids also stayed home alone on a number of summer days at a younger age than a lot of DCUM parents would allow.  Fortunately they were responsible and I could do that.

I also hired a high school neighbor to pick my daughter up from school to get her to her gymnastics practices that I couldn’t get back in time for.

Used a lot of leave.  Vacations were minimal because of that.

Both kids in sports and I lived out of my car.  While they were at practices in evenings I ran a lot of errands.  I’d often bring a cooler and grocery shop.

I often felt like a shark - if I stopped swimming I’d drown!  [/quote]

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