Anybody work full time? Please help me!

[Moodykat]

Hi
I've just had an interview (first in a while of looking) for a full time job. DS1 is 3 and DS2 only 9 months. If I get it, it's to start ASAP.
Am just so churned up by the thought of leaving them full time.
Please could someone wise reassure me that my children will still know me? That I won't scar them for life?!
Thanks!

They will still know you and they won't be scarred for life :o

Its hard to go back full time but lots of us do it and lots of children are perfectly ok in childcare. Have you got childcare sorted? That is where you will get your peace of mind. Good childcare is the part that reassures you they are doing ok

I will use the same nursery that DS1 was in when I went back to work before DS2. he was lots older though, 18 months when he started!
I know lots of people do it, and the money would sort us out financially but it's such a scary thought!
Thanks for your reply!

They will still know who you are, don't worry! Good luck - I hope you are offered the job!

I'm working full time, so does my husband and the kids are in nursery between 9.5 and 10 hours a day (depending on traffic).

My older daughter started nursery at 9 months, we've reduced to one full day a week when I was on ML with No2, who also started nursery full time at 9 months.

Our children love going to nursery (the little one will stretch her arms out to her key worker in the morning with a big smile), and they love being picked up. They're having a close relationship both with me and my husband. They love their nursery nurses, but it's different to the relationship they have with us parents.

As long as you make time for them in the evenings and mornings, and of course at the weekends, you have nothing to worry about.

My DD went to nursery from 6 months old she's now at school.. We have a fantastic relationship, she also loves her childminder the thing I like is she knows that mummy goes to work to earn money to buy her nice things and to make sure we have a nice house. I want her to grow up knowing the value of money and that you have to earn it !!

My husband and I both work full time. My son adores the pants off us both. We work to make money to live and because we are both good at what we do professionally - I'm proud of that.

Anyway, I'm always careful to make sure the time we do spend together is fun (so for example as I'm earning, we got a cleaner, so DH and I don't do chores all weekend). I am thrilled to see my son at the end of the working day so he rarely gets a grumpy mum, which has to be good.

He went to nursery at 9mo. That process was so horrendous that I almost gave up work immediately but I set myself a goal of two months. If he hated it, I wouldn't do it. But by that time, he was tolerating it and now he loves it.

So don't worry. Working full time and having kids is hard but also rewarding.

What great answers, thank you all. Am keeping my fingers crossed now!

Didn't get it.
Hey ho. Will keep plugging on!