Our baby got sent home with the flu it's been going around. Daycare called and I picked up since I'm closest but we are disagreeing on who stays home tomorrow! How do you decide?
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It's always me. My position is more flexible.
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Always me. Husbands job is not flexible and mine is.
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It's always been me. My husband's job has always had zero flexiibility.
With flu, she'll probably be out a few days so you should just split the days!
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DH because that causes disruption to less patients than my job and he has separate sick and vacation time. But lately he has been putting up a fuss so maybe it will be me more often.
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We take turns. If he stays home Monday, I stay home Tuesday...
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@lawbee11: this is our normal course of action our argument is that I technically only took a 1/2 day
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Always me. DH has zero flexibility and his job is very demanding.
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I have my mom who will watch my sick kids. But if I didn't, it would be me. DH's job is not flexible at all!
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we will take turns, though maybe not evenly as it may depend on what each of us has going on at work that day.
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Me. My job is more flexible. I work in an office and DH is a nurse in the ER. Not saying that his job is more important per se but no one is going to die if I don't how up to work
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@LuLu Mom: I actually think half days are even harder because I'm already in the swing of things at work and have to pick up and leave with no notice, which means things were left hanging and I need to be there the next day to sort them out. If I was the one to leave work and pick LO up, my husband would definitely be the one to stay home the next day.
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Whoever's more flexible that day.
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We take turns based on who's got what going on. Sometimes, Dh will go in for a meeting but come home and relieve me. We can both work from home
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Usually me since DH travels a lot. But otherwise who has more flex in their schedule.
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Honestly, we shamelessly beg my in-laws to take her on most of these days. But if they can't, we either alternate or switch at lunchtime. Switching off at lunchtime is my favorite because being gone half a day is less disruptive to my schedule and neither of us has to deal with a sick whiny child the entire day.
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We take turns, but also take into account each other's schedule for the day. Sometimes we are able to split days, (ie. I work the morning, he works the afternoon) since we both have some things we can do remotely. This works particularly well because we can both get some face time in at our jobs.
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DS isn't here yet but it will most often be DW unless it's a day she teaches as her schedule is more flexible. If it is a day she teaches, it will have to be me (I can usually work from home with no probem).
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We try to keep things fair, so we tend to take turns or else both stay home and each do half a day's work remotely. Lately DH has been doing more since I have used up most of my PTO this year and can't go over.
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The first year it was always me or my mil.... He leaves so early in the am that unless we knew the night before that she was staying home it was me. He gets more Vacation days than I do but if he needs to be in work he NEEDS to be there.
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Me because work is flexible and I can work from home.
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Always me, unless I'm traveling-because I can wfh plus I have unlimited PTO.
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Ditto to @catlady. We tend to trade off or will both work from home and split duties so we can still make important calls.
That said, I only work three days a week so my husband never has to stay home if our toddler is sick on a Monday or Friday - that tends to benefit him quite a bit.
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My DH's job is not flexible, but it's also not a traditional 9-5 schedule. If he's not working that day, he stays home. If he has to work, I stay home. We haven't had a situation yet where I HAVE to be in the office and he also has to work...not sure how we'll handle that one if/when it happens.
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Almost always me bc my job is more flexible and can be done from home if needed
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We try to take turns! We also will call my MIL to help out if LO isn't too too sick.
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Usually DH. His job is more flexible (can WFH) and he has a ton more days of PTO than I do. I would prefer to be the one to stay home, but it usually just makes sense for him to do it.
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It depends. DH doesn't have flexibility because he's the only full timer at his store. But I also recently started a new job. Baby got sent home last week and it was a very busy / deadline week for me. It would have been really bad for me to take days off. Thankfully, our family was able to take turns for us. But in the end it probably would've been me if family couldn't.
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Always me unless I have a rare meeting I can't reschedule. My job is much more flexible overall and I already wfh sometimes.
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We alternate and often split days. I work in the morning and he does in the afternoon.
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Somehow we've avoided this happening but I would probably be the one to stay home. I have paid sick days that are explicitly allowed for sick children.
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DH stays home since his job is more flexible with leave. If he couldn't, we would see if our back-up sitter could. If she couldn't either, I would. If DS was sick with something that would keep him home for a long time, we would see if my mom or in-laws could come into town a babysit.
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My mom lives with us now, so he'll just stay with her. But before she moved in we'd try to split the day. D works second shift, so I would leave work an hour or two early and he would go in when I got home and be a few hours late.
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We try to take turns, unless someone has important meetings/jobs when it's their "turn". Or DH does half a day and then I go in and work late. If DD were to be out for a couple days I'd see if my mom were available for a day
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