aibu to work part time as youngest is 11... thinking of long summer holidays..in my view i am putting family first

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what age of your DC is it ok to work full time and let them run ferral?

i rarely go off sick, i think because i do work part time, one day off in the middle of the week and 2 days leaving at @ 3 or 4

She could mean DLA which you can work and claim. I don't think it is really fair to try and catch someone out on a thread that is not even theirs and on a topic not linked to the thread.

Her children are also in their late teens so she could have worked when she said and then later on had to stop working due to sickness.

So what you you rather me do start a whole thread to catch her out..........dont be so precious.

her children are late teens blimey one of them graduated from warwick doing something and earns £50,000 a year...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting

I have a work colleague who is a SP and has two children now aged 6 and 4. her children have been in nursery full time from 8am-6pm since they were 6mths old. She doesn't even take her holidays in school holiday times to be with them!

I work 40+ hours a week. I am out of the house for at least 11 hours every day.

There is no alternative which allows me to pay the mortgage and support my DC.

In the summer DS1 (who is 12) is mostly at home on his own, apart from the 2 weeks I am off with him, and a few days here and there at Ex-pils. He is generally much better behaved than his friends, who all have at least parent who is either SAHP or works part time - so the argument that children of working parents (lets face it usually working lone parents) doesn't wash with me.

that should be that the children of working parents are roaming the streets looking for trouble doesn't wash with me.

not sure where half that sentence went...

hatesponge....how do you know he is better behaved you are not there.?

Apart from the fact the police has not knocked on your door who knows what he is doing.

12 is too young.

I really detest it when rubbish is spouted. IMO it sounds like there is a lot bit of the green eyed monster going on about those that have the ideal jobs.

Mae - I have one very good address I highly recommend - pm me if you want it!

One of the major upsides to being married to a workaholic geek is that I will not need to contemplate returning to work while the kids are at home if I don't want to.

As it happens I am going back part time in January, but barring DH losing his job, I have no intention of ever working full time ever again.

If it suits your family, then do what you want, not what somebody else thinks you should.