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I have two Dc. Now my eldest is settled into full time school (she went part time for the first term) I need to start thinking about going back to work...
My husband works and earns a comfortable wage, we do manage quite well on his income but some extra income would be nice.
I’ve been looking at jobs in school hours and also the option of breakfast and after school clubs.
My two children have additional needs which makes it harder I think.
But how do you manage in the school holidays?
My Facebook newsfeed is full of parents asking if others can help out with their children during half term..
The school holidays will me my biggest hurdle. Like I say both my children have additional needs, family either can’t or don’t want to help out. I’ve never expected them to.
My children’s school don’t have a holiday club.
There are two childminders in the area but they are full.. and I would be concerned because they are both fairly new childminders and probably haven’t dealt with children with autism before.
If my husbands hours stayed the same every week I would work around that but they don’t. He is on alternating shift but does overtime etc as well. He tries to book all of his holiday in school holiday time but often with half term he doesn’t always get it off because there’s a lot of other people working there who also want it off..
Aibu to think it’s really bloody hard? With the added difficulty of both my children having autism... making finding childcare harder.
What’s the other options? Working from home? working term time only? (what kind of jobs, don’t want to work in the school)
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How do working parents manage in the school holidays?
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ADJ1151 · 21/02/2020 08:40
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