Pregnant with our first. Not sure how many children we will have yet.
What I have noticed over the years is that some colleagues with a school aged DC (and sometimes younger ones in nursery too) are constantly having to take flexi or a couple of hours out to attend assemblies, presentations, coffee mornings, parades, school plays. The older child seems to take more of their working day than the younger.
It’s really important to me that I/we show up to these events for our DC, each and every time if we can. I remember searching for my parents in the crowd and always feeling relieved when I spotted them.
Doing it for one child is surely tricky enough depending on your job, never mind multiple! How do you manage? The guilt I would feel if I could only go to one’s play and not the other, and I’d never be at work with the amount of parent-attending occasions some schools seem to put on in within the school day!