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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am a single WOHM and this has been tough.  Some ideas:

1) Be waiting outside the door of the daycare when it opens.  Mine opened at 7 AM, I was in the parking lot at 6:55 AM every day.  I started my commute from there.

2) I got to work at 7:30 and was on a core schedule of 7:30 - 4 PM.  I try to leave around 4 PM to be SURE I can make it to daycare pick up.  Most days I made it in 30 minutes.  It's unusual but there really are times that the commute, due to some horrible problem, has taken two hours to get home.  I never once was late for pick up.

3) Get back online as soon as you get home

4) I don't do this but I hear it works - if you are sending a general email updating people about something, or sending out  a "deliverable", [b]post-time it for delivery to the others in your office at say, 5:15 PM[/b].  Helps reinforce your constant "presence" at work.  See this article:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/upshot/the-24-7-work-cultures-toll-on-families-and-gender-equality.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

"When women tried the same strategy, it usually didn’t work. When a man left at 5 p.m., people at the office assumed he was meeting a client, Ms. Reid said. When a woman left, they assumed she was going home to her children."

I do this as I often leave at 4 and am  home by 5.

The sending of late night emails also depends on your company culture/audience:

http://smallbiztrends.com/2015/03/send-not-send-after-hours-email-question.html 
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