How do I explain to my eight year old boy that my Friday is different than his Friday (shift work)?

Answer 1

Get a chart calendar. (The kind that's one page a month, one square per day.) Use a red marker to make squares over the squares that show about where your day begins and ends in relationship to a regular 24 hour day.

For example, if you work from ten p.m. to seven a.m., make your first vertical red line just before Friday ends, and second one just a little more after Saturday begins, and then add the horizontal lines. Leave a space at either end (depending on whether you usually get up right before you leave, or go to bed right after you get home) for your waking hours when you're not at work, if it's an issue of spending time with him that he doesn't understand. If you're on a swing-shift, you will have to draw two weeks of squares so he can see how it changes.

At eight he should be able to get that Daddy's Friday starts as Friday is ending for most people, and most of it is actually on Saturday, once you make the boxes for him.

Hope that helps! :)

Answer 2

does anyone really know ....