I would love to cut back my hours at work now that DS is will be starting 1st grade in the fall.
I cant decide if it would be better to have more time at home in the morning - not waking them up early, leisurely breakfast, then drop off at school and do after-care.
or
Do before-care and pick him up from school at 3pm and then have more time in the evening.
I think I prefer PM but I HATE waking my kids in the morning - I feel like sleep is so sacred!
WWYD?
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
My kids are younger, but once they are in school, I'd prefer to have more time with them in the evening, to help with homework and decompress from the day without having to rush homework, dinner, bath, bed.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Definitely evening! What will their school hours be?
eggplant / 11716 posts
I'd say evening, but that's just because that's my schedule now. My LO and I are out the door at 6:40 am each day and she is at daycare by 7:30 and I'm at work by 7:45. I pick her up at 3ish and we are home around 4:15.
In the afternoon/evening we usually have time to play (go to the park or so something else fun), run an errand or two, make dinner and eat, all before daddy comes home to do bath and bed time.
pomegranate / 3863 posts
Evening, just for schedules sake. It would give me more time to spend with him and more time to prep dinner and make our evenings less rushed.
That said, I have more patience and energy in the morning and DS is in a better mood, so we'd probably have higher quality and more productive time together in the mornings!
pomelo / 5524 posts
Evening for sure. I'm not a morning person, so it's a struggle to even get myself out of bed in the morning!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Evenings, definitely. It's important to me to pick my kids up from school, take them to activities, have play dates, go to the park, cook dinner, help with homework, etc. There's not that much that can be done in the mornings before school.
pomegranate / 3113 posts
Right now, mornings -- my LO is still a toddler so she usually wakes up in a great mood but gets crabby by the end of the day. She's a lot more fun in the morning, so it's just better quality time for us. But once she's a bit older, I'd say evenings -- it would be nice to have time to make a good dinner and eat together, then decompress and hang out before bed.
pomegranate / 3127 posts
Definitely AM. We're all tired in the evening, it's not a good time to play much because DS needs to calm down for bedtime, and if I want to do anything educational with him he's tired and doesn't feel like it.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
PM. It is so nice to have that extra time in the evening to go to the park for an hour, then come home and make dinner while they play (or in your case, maybe do homework?) If I get more time in the AM, I just sleep it away!
grapefruit / 4671 posts
Evening. Thewre is just so much more to do in the evening especially in terms of extra curriculars etc.
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