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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t understand how I could work with a 2-year-old by my side all day? Conference calls, training, emails, one on one calls with my boss. It’s simply not an option to keep
mine home.[/quote]

:roll: Of course it's an option. What do you think everyone else working from home w/ kids is doing? You make it work. [/quote]

yeah seriously, what do you think the rest of us are doing? I also have a 2 year old. I’m doing what I assume most people are doing- waking up super early to put in a couple hours before he wakes up at 7. Monitor emails and use some screen time in the morning for calls, work during nap, repeat in afternoon. Work after he goes to sleep.

If you have a spouse or partner at home, you work in shifts.

It’s hard and it sucks. But it’s totally doable and people claiming otherwise are just making excuses.  Do your part and pull your kid out of daycare. We are all in this together and the longer people like you fight doing what’s right and necessary the longer the rest of us will be in this awful situation (awful for reasons far worse than the work stress!)[/quote]
This is assuming you have flexible work hours. Fortunately for me, majority of my team is all in the same boat. Attempting to work from home while entertaining young kids, so it's understood that I'll be muted through all conference calls, and that I'll mostly be active on Skype in the early hours and later in the evening, and that I'll finish whatever's left over the weekend. I imagine that arrangement doesn't work with every employer. [/quote]

Yup. We are expected to adhere to our normal hours or take leave.  So I took leave this week and when DH is home next week (he's on a shift schedule) I'll work.  It sucks.  But irresponsible to use daycare right now.[/quote]

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