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I have posted here repeatedly about how we made it work and I have been lambasted for it.  Wah wah wah.

This is what we did in a nutshell:  we kicked one kid out of his bedroom and made him bunk up with a sibling so that we could turn the room into a schoolroom.  We set up the schoolroom with 3 kid desks, each kid with a gaming headset (to hear & speak on Zoom), a printer in the schoolroom (completely unnecessary as it turns out but we didn't know that in April of last year), an adult's desk in the schoolroom, a whiteboard and a chalkboard (both we know now were completely unnecessary but they did add some fun for drawing), 2 bookcases, extra powerstrips.  We painted and decorated.  At some point we added an aquarium because it was fun.

My husband and I completely changed our schedules. We rise at 4:30 am.  We begin work at 5 am and work until 7 am.  At that point we begin a 2 hour ON and 2 hour OFF schedule with the kids.  The ON person is responsible entirely for the activities of the children for the 2 hours while the OFF person continues working.  The ON person sits in the school room and supervises while the OFF person works in the office. The ON person makes breakfast or lunch or snacks for everyone.  We switch back and forth all day until the school day ends.  At which point I have satisfied my obligations to my employer and my husband keeps working until dinner.

We did not move, we did not go live at the beach, we did not hire tutors.  Our schedule, honestly, is a lot like the schedules of OTHER PARENTS LIKE US WHO MADE IT WORK!!!  It would take me at least three hands to count the number of families who have made similar shifts and whose kids are thriving.

When you have walked in our shoes then you can cast shade.  Until then I will judge you for complaining and not making it work, and my judgement is that you have failed. Sure there are some people with extenuating circumstances but mostly ... not.

Most people have fairly regular jobs with fairly regular demands. Those are the people who I think are on here whining and complaining all the time.

As for the first responders we know, they already had plans in place. The first responders we know already had a game plan and they barely batted an eye when Covid hit. Their problems weren't so much the school day as some of them needed coverage after school and in the evenings when they were working at the hospital.  We, and others we know, helped out and that made it work.

So stop whining and complaining. Your kids are back in school. I don't care what you think about hybrid or concurrent, I don't care what you think about this past year, I don't care about what you think about next year because I don't care about your opinion. You've proven that you're not cut out to do the job you elected to take, parenting, and I leave you to the hot mess you've created.[/quote]

DP, but JFC, no wonder you're so miserable.  That sounds like a great way to model self-sacrifice for your kids, if that's what you were going for.  Who cares about the consequences of chronic stress, amirite?

For the thousandth time, people who have made it work don't harbor the kind of hostility you do.  Period.  Like, no one who is actually thriving feels the need to shout "WE'RE THRIVING!!!!" repeatedly on an anonymous internet forum.[/quote]

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