Ladies with kids, How do you manage weekly travel? Being absent Monday-Friday every week? What is your arrangement ? Kids are 2 and 5

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I have a full time (45 hours a week) nanny who picks up the children (aged 8,6,3) after day care / school and is with them till 7pm when my husband takes over. We manage our schedules so that atleast one of us is always in town and around when the children are back home.

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And how much time do you actually spend with your kids? Sorry if this seems like a rude question - I have two kids and decided to go parttime cause I didn’t feel like I could do it all

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I’m curious too. I don’t think I can handle it. I have a toddler and worked remotely or for a local client since she was born. I’m having a second child in 3 weeks and I realize I won’t have the flexibility anymore. On intense work days, I barely see my toddler and I feel awful in the end. We have a nanny 8-6pm on 3 days and grandparents watch her 2 days as nanny works in a different household then.

After my second was born I just couldn’t keep up with being out of town and trying to juggle two travel schedules. And for me personally, I wanted to be around to see my kids during the week and at their after school activities and sports- weekends weren’t enough. So I Took a non-travel role and did that until they went off to college and pivoted back to a heavy travel role. And even once I went to a non-travel role, It was still a lot of work balancing it all. We had live-in au pairs for about 10 years and it really worked for us. Now I’m less than 1 year from retirement and I ask forward to getting rid of the daily stress that comes from working here! The key is to figure out what works for your family, and don’t listen to the noise telling you what you should or shouldn’t do. The au pairs were less expensive than a regular nanny but more costly than day care but for me the flexibility was a worth the pain of having someone in my home.

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