@joseph700 My only child is a teenager. I shudder to think wtf I would have done if he was younger! My work never went WFH & my son had to do remote school for a year & a half. He was basically home alone from 8:30am to 5:30pm 5 days a week that whole time. Occasionally my Mom or Dad would stop by on their lunch breaks to check in on him, maybe once a week, for 30 min. If he was younger, there's no way I could have kept my job. There is no one else that could watch my child. His father and his side of the family have never been in my son's life, I'm single, and my parents both continued to work in person. The only other family that lives near by are all much too old to watch small children for extended periods, they are all 70+ mostly in poor health. My daycare budget has long ago been re-allocated to a bigger home and teenage boy sized grocery bills. Even if not, daycares all closed down for a long time.
I have no idea how all the solo parents, like myself but with young kids, managed to get by the past few years!! I can only imagine the hardship and stress.
I have no idea how all the solo parents, like myself but with young kids, managed to get by the past few years!! I can only imagine the hardship and stress.