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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whole family has 11-12 hr workdays including children, even though neither parent commutes. You need major life changes. Its not healthy. [/quote]

I’m a working mom with 3 kids. DH and I both have flexible schedules with WAH. We have staggered our schedules so that we do not need any before or after care. One of us works 7-3:30 while the other manages all the breakfast/bus stop stuff and the other works 9-5:30 while the early worker handles afternoons with the kids. Sometimes we have to shift things around to accommodate meetings or to divide and conquer taking the kids to after school extracurriculars, and then we make up a bit of work at night.

I realize this isn’t feasible for everyone, but if OP and her DH are working from home a lot, I don’t understand why they need 11-12 hours of childcare? Even when DH and I were going into the office and had 30-45 min commutes we still staggered so kids were in daycare no more than ~8-9 hours and often less because we’d flex things around.

I have plenty of mom friends who are PT, SAH (or were SAH and recently went back), etc. and our employment status does not feel like some huge divide.

I think OP is relying on extended childcare hours and feeling judged by her neighbor because she is unhappy with her current family schedule. Usually when you’re sensitive about something it’s coming from something internal. [/quote]

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