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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's validating to hear that other DCPS families have made career sacrifices to handle kid's schedules. At our elementary I often feel like the only mom who has a "mommy track" job to accommodate this stuff and sometimes feel judged for it.

But most families we know either have family help or some kind of at-home childcare (nanny, au pair) and those weren't an option for us so I downshifted at work. It's not ideal and I miss working in an office and being FT (and making more money). I guess I'm glad I'm still working in my field at all. It's hard.[/quote]

We know so many DCPS families where one parent has an extremely flexible schedule -- contract work, independent wealth, part time work (even if the part time work seems lucrative, like law). And, SAH parents. Maybe the first category seems less visible but that's why they family is less stressed.

I stepped back to project-based work when I had kids, and my husband I think still doesn't realize how many gaps I fill in throughout the year. He was stunned by the "80 days" number for example.[/quote]

There are so many parents (usually moms) who are consulting or doing some other non-full-time work. I have heard it referred to as a 9-1 job. I haven’t been able to figure out anything like this for myself despite thinking about it for years. The nature of our lawyer jobs allow us to do a fair amount of work asynchronously, so that helps, but it would be an immense help to have one of us not working full time if we could figure out a workable model where the PT person actually made meaningful income. But we still have made it work to be around more in the afternoons because of remote and hybrid schedules, and being willing to have one of us catch up on work in the evenings or weekends.

Echoing what others have said about the benefit to middle to upper elementary kids. Being around in the afternoon, making sure they are on top of schoolwork, volunteering at their extracurriculars, etc makes a huge difference. Both of our kids are doing far better in school and in general now that we have made an effort to have one of us around in the late afternoon and making sacrifices at work to do it, instead of having them in aftercare until 6 everyday like we used to. [/quote]

Luckily both our job are flexible and with one child it seems we could swing it. [/quote]

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