Tag: working dads
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Working parents don’t want before- and after- care: they just want care
Camps (spring break, summer, PA day) seem to universally run from 9am to 4pm. Period. If you need more care, you’re going to have to pay for it – monetarily, or with your vacation or flex time. And even then, often 5pm is the latest available pick up option. What about people who work until…
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The cost of childcare and its effect on working parents
*The cost of childcare and its effect on working parents is a guest post. If you are interested in having your writing hosted on A Modern Mom’s Life, please visit my Guest Posting page.* Raising a child is not a joke, especially in a country where 20% of parents (mainly working parents) go into debt due…
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How to support your child at school when you’re a dual working parent household
You’re here because you want to help your child succeed. I get that. Maybe your child has special needs due to a learning disability or developmental delay – that’s the case with us. Or maybe you just want to provide the best environment you can for your child, despite the challenges of working outside the…
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Finding Time for your Relationship as a Two Working Parent Household
Families are busy. Busy helping with homework. looking after the house, the meals, the laundry and each other. Then there are work responsibilities, extra-curricular activities, and finding that elusive “unscheduled time”. Something that often gets pushed aside in our busy lives is our relationship with our significant other. I know in my early years of…
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5 Ways to Thrive As Working Parents
In today’s economy many families with children have 2 working parents. This is becoming the new “normal.” Where in my family my dad was the sole wage earner while I was growing up, there is no way we – the family I’ve created with my husband – could live comfortably on only one income. “In…
