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From: unicorn@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Handling A Child & Two Working Parents???
Message-ID: <952@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 14:21:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: bmcg.952
Posted: Tue May  1 14:21:30 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 3-May-84 08:33:40 EDT
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I would like anyone in the situation I'm about to describe
to send me suggestions on how to handle the lack of time
for myself (ourselves) when both parents work.

We have (a previously alluded to) demanding 8 yr. old daughter
who needs much help with school work and emotional adjustments.
I start work at 7 a.m. (by choice, as then I can get home
in time to start dinner & still do my very necessary hour
of Jazzercize), and my husband starts at 7:30...getting home,
as most hackers do, whenever.  Usually after 6:30.  Fact:  We
must both work to survive, mentally and financially.

Kim leaves for the school bus herself every morning.  We set
out lunch or lunch money, & breakfast is always on the table
in some form.  But no one is there to wish her the best during
her day...or do all the intangibles I remember my mom doing.

After school she usually (hopefully) does homework, watches TV,
and entertains 2 dogs & 1 bunny.  Still alone.  

By the time we are ready to help with homework problems or whatever,
it's nearly 9 p.m.  And we get tired and crabby too.

How do you (out there in UNIX land) handle working all day and
coping with kids at night?  What in the world can we eliminate
from our schedules?  We can't quit our jobs, and when daily
maintenance intervenes (dishes, cooking, laundry, etc), there
is absolutely no time for anything but bed.

HELP!