Hi I currently work nights doing 12 hour shifts caring. It's a brill job I've been there for a year and half and don't want to leave but I have a big child care issue. I split from partner a while back and has been looking after the kids to 2 nights I do a week but not living here anymore. I live week by week not knowing if he is going to have the kids and feeling rubbish and insecure about this situation. For a while it seemed he would try it on and then if I didn't respond he would take away the offer of childcare and plus I hate him staying in my bed. So my mum is having them on and off and I feel like I'm putting on her. At the moment I work 24 hours a week. Clearly I need a long term solution to work independently of needing anyone for childcare which would be around school hours? What do other people do to fit it all in as a single parent ? I suppose this could have gone in single parent thread or childcare ? I need hope that I can do this 