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As a full-time working parent, what are you struggling with the most?

  1. Mae

    papaya / 10343 posts

    Illness! I went back to work and my daughter started daycare for the first time in January. Since then she has been sick literally every other week. And my husband and I have also been sick pretty much constantly since January. Being brand new at my job I feel weird taking time off so much but even doing less than 1/3 of the days my daughter has had to be out of daycare-- it is a lot. And that doesn't touch the day's I'M sick. And so I've been going to work semi-sick because if I stayed home every time I had a cold I would never work. But yesterday I got sent home from work for being sick because I was coughing in a meeting (so embarrassing). And like-- I totally get it and they are trying to be nice sending me home. But it is so stressful because I've been sick forever it feels like and I feel like I will be sick forever and I have to work sometime!

  2. looch

    wonderful pear / 26210 posts

    I haven't read all the responses, but the transition to a school schedule and kindergarten is really making me nervous.

  3. Mrs. Pickles

    kiwi / 584 posts

    @Anagram: I totally had many of the struggles you're having with DH and LO2,
    they contributed a lot to making the full switch to FF at 6mo, because I simply couldn't take it anymore
    things I'm trying to work on, planning, prepping when I have a chance, finding food solutions that are faster, and really trying to focus on my kids since I see them so little during the week

    two kids has exponentially increased my mom work guilt to the anxiety point

    solidarity ladies

  4. Pirouette

    pomegranate / 3331 posts

    1. commitment to my job and FOCUS.
    2. missing my husband. wanting more time together and especially more quality time - time not spent on our phones or watching tv.
    3. fear of making it all work with a second kid!

    we were in a really good groove all around until recently, when various circumstances made work/family balance much harder on us. unfortunately, i also know that will take a hit when #2 comes, so i don't have strong hopes of getting back in that good groove anytime soon!

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