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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Camps with extended care. The only people whom I know whose kids did swim team had a SAHP or a sitter. [/quote]

+1 Swim team is for SAHM families. [/quote]

A lot of the families on our neighborhood team are not SAHM families. But they seem to have one or both parents available a lot on the late afternoon. I'm actually shocked how many families there are who have BOTH parents hanging out at swim practice. I wonder when they work?? I do contract work from home, usually part-time so I can do drop off and pick up, but there is no way my spouse could be hanging out at swim practice at 4:30 pm. It's a fairly UMC neighborhood and I wonder how people earn the money that they seem to when it seems like they don't work much![/quote]

Haha our neighborhood is the same. I do see a few parents on calls and even laptops by the pool. Literally "phoning it in" lol.[/quote]

This my my family. My spouse is a GS-14 with 2 in-person days, one mandated to be Tuesday. I WFH 100% as a department lead for back office (Finance / HR / IT) at a government contractor. I control my schedule. 
We carpool with another family for camps, so we have 5 spots to fill weekly. Usually my husband starts 30 min late 2 days a week and I schedule a break 4-4:45pm 3 days a week.  When I have my early pick-up day, I start work at 7:30am. When my husband starts late, he comes home later. We both work 30-60 min in the evening most days to schedule meetings, reply to emails, and get set up for the next day. We often both take a break to walk to pick up our kids together during the school year and you will see us both at Monday evening swim meets in the summer because we prioritize that. I can’t remember the last time I took an hour for lunch unless it was a business meeting at a restaurant. I heat up a can of soup or some leftovers and eat at my desk while in meetings 95% of the time so that I have time to get kids to those 5pm practices.

I also recognize I have more flexibility than many people and I always offer to carpool or help out neighbors if there is space in the car and their kids are going the same place as mine. [/quote]

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