Going back to work with Kids
By violetdreams
@violetdreams (658)
May 26, 2008 10:16am CST
How do you cope? You have your kids they are now a few years old, at preschool/school and you prepare to go back to work.
The question that nags at me is HOW DO THESE PEOPLE COPE?
I usually cope very well with what life throws at me, but I must say this one is worrying me. How do all you wonderful ladies out there cope with getting 3 kids up and ready for school (breakfast, lunches, dressed, etc...), getting them to school and then still managing to get to work yourself - and ontime too! Not to mention what do you do after school? How do you manage to collect the kids, get them home, homework, dinner, bath and bed all in between dinner for you and hubby, etc...
and still stay sane???
Thanks
violetdreamslingerie.co.uk
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
27 May 08
Bleh, I don't know. When you find an acceptable answer, let me know. I worked part time for awhile outside my home, and only because it was supposed to be a temp position to cover somebody's maternity leave. The owner allowed me to bring my daughter or I would have said no. I was doing it to help out, not really for the pay check, although a little extra is nice.
The problem was, all hell broke loose with my teens. I only worked a few days a week but lo and behold, there would be a problem that fell on those days during the hours I was at work! I did not cope with it very well, and before I resigned, I was feeling especially bad about having to take my youngest in to work in the mornings ASLEEP. I had a family emergency right around the time it had been close to 4 months with the job. I was supposed to work there 6 weeks, maybe 8 weeks at the longest. Needless to say, I resigned and I'm not going to try again for awhile. I am doing part time daycare but out of my home and only one child, so that doesn't interfere with anything.
@violetdreams (658)
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27 May 08
Wow, sounds like you had a rough time on your first attempt to join the 'working crew'.
It just seems to me that the UK Government is big on getting mums back into the work force, but not so big on helping us to do it! Why make childcare so expensive that it would take our whole salary to pay for it - what's the point? besides all the added stress!
@jalucia (1431)
• United States
1 Jun 08
I went to work for a little with my first couple of kids. Going to work, after being on maternity leave actually felt like a bit of a break from my house. Staying home with your kids is no easier than those who go to work. When you go to work, your kids are someone elses responsibility for that time period. When you stay at home with them, they are all your responsibility - all day. When you go to work and you have to get everybody out of the house and back in you are, at least, on some kind of schedule everyday. Weekdays become routine ... they are not non stressful, but a routine is established.
