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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you currently pick your kids up at 6pm from after care and then take them to a community center for scheduled activities. You all get home around 7:30pm?? for dinner, you do all the cooking/cleaning/bathing/putting to bed in 1.5hrs and DH comes home at 9pm when  they are all asleep.

Sorry but you need to re-evaluate what is important in life.  Those kids not only need some downtime but time with their parents.  Life is short.    [/quote]
DH and I used to work those schedule when DDs were little and our day care provider director made us stop. Seriously. We were dropping the kids off when the center opened at 7:30 and picking them up at 6. She met with us and told us, basically, we needed to reevaluate our schedules and if we couldn't shift our total hours than we had to shift our schedules. So I started going to work at 7 so I could be leave by 3, and DH started going in later so they got dropped off later. Now that they're in MS, I'm back by 4 to take them to stuff.

With your schedules its either Nanny or no activities unless you guys can switch. Car pools maybe?[/quote]

Wow, was I the only person who was struck by this post?  Your schedule, PP, is exactly that of every single family in my DD's daycare, except they probably pick up at 5:30 most of the time, instead of 6.  In fact, that's MY schedule for her most days of the week. I was under the impression that's what daycares expected when they offered hours like this.  I agree it's not ideal for the kids, but I'd be angry and humiliated if my daycare provider basically told me I had to cut back my work hours (to fewer than 40 a week, given my commute?) so I could fit her expectation of what our family's schedule should look like. [/quote]

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