This question in no way is intended to open up a debate about whether I should be a stay-at-home mom or work outside the home. My kids have flourished in their preschool.
In a 5-week temp assignment, I had to take off 9 times because my kids would get sick with SOMETHING (asthma, cold, throwing up, etc.)
My husband doesn't get sick time yet, and he makes enough in 11 minutes to cover an hour of me working, so he doesn't take off.
When I was little, we had a Mommaw, who picked us up from school when we were sick so my mom could work. Now my mom is the mommaw, and like most 50-year-old women now, she works full-time.
We don't have many friends, and my sister can pick one of my kids up if they happen to get sick on Monday (her one day off). The town I live in doesn't have a "sick kid" daycare.
How do moms, particularly moms of more than one child, manage to hold down full-time jobs in that situation???
2006-10-17
14:35:11
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