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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You use daycare next to office. When I worked in Bethesda there was literally a nice day care center in building right next to office. The Mom next to me used to bring kid to work with her. drop her kid next door and go to work. No stress. They got 40 minutes in car every morning. At end of day, she walk and get her. If OT needed the come back to office, kid would hang out with Mom 15 minutes to an hour then they drive home.

My own wife her company actually had day care in building. My wife used to go down at lunch time and take my daughter out for a stroll on nice days and play with her at lunch time. They also had an app with a link my wife could click on her desk to see our kid. My wife checked it a lot first week or two.

You can have Mom friendly companies that are in person.

I then was lucky to move to a very family friendly company. Amazing pay and good medical so my wife then decided to take a break from work for 20 years. Waited to the youngest of three hit HS before going back.

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Let me break it down to you. I have three kids. Two are in elementary school. They don’t go to daycare. One is in daycare. I pick the one in daycare up at 5:30 pm. We can’t afford to live right next to work. However we did pay a premium to live right next to a metro in Arlington. My husband’s work relocated last year and now is far from the metro. My job is next to the metro but takes approximately 50-1 hr to commute (this is considered a good commute by DC standards). Daycare doesn’t exist for my elementary school kids. You must not understand what daycare is.[/quote]

Yes it does. I did not use it but we had an after school program for kids my elementary school. Also we had two retired women who lived across street my elementary school for ten dollar an hour per kid would pick your kid up, walk across street to their house, they make them snacks, make sure they do home work and let them play in yard. The one women I looked into only did four kids. School ended at 3pm and pick up was up to 7 pm. Cash only. I had two kids. in elementary school. At time I could get there by 6 pm. Would have cost me $300 a week.

Instead I hired a retired lady on SS myself for $20 an hour. She pick up my kids, walk them to my house, make dinner, make sure homework done all for the same $300 a week. She was on SS and Medicare at 68. So it was $1,500 tax free money for her. Not much stress she lived like three miles away. I also let her eat dinner with kids. So she saved on buying dinner 5 days a week. Took me three days to find her. Heck when I was unemployed I would have done it.

Some working Moms my daughters school took turns. Get five moms together and one mom leaves early once a week. They take turns. So many solutions.

My starter house I sold as cute as a button in mint shape was so close to elementary school you could watch kid with cup of coffee in hand walk to school. I actually could hear bell when school ended from my house. I walk up. I sold my house to this wonderful couple 63 and 60 their daughter lived in town and had two kids assigned that elementary school. They were going to drop off and pick up kids for daughter. They were so happy. They wanted close to school. I sold house and my realtor at first wanted me to remove my above ground pool, trampoline, Jungle Gym Set but I was like my kids are jsut about leaving that phase so dont need it new house, so leave it. If new owner does not want I can remove then if offer good. Well this couple loved it. They were going to be day care all summer when school closed. They were like I cant wait to have kids and playdates in my yard. At closing wife kept saying I am going to die in this house one die. So there are grandparents.

Mine were not that nice. But some are.                  [/quote]

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