Ok, I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to situate the kiddos this summer when I get a job. I just have no idea how to work it out.
Here's my problem-Bailey needs to go to summer school for 4 weeks starting June 12th because he (per his teacher) "needs the structure so he doesn't regress with his behavior when 3rd grade starts". His grades are superb but his teacher feels that he will have a hard time getting back into the groove of things when the school year starts in the fall because 3rd grade is more difficult and he has a hard time with unstructured situations. Hard to explain but we feel he needs summer school to be ready for 3rd grade emotionally. Anyway....summer school is Mon-Thurs 8am until 2pm. Transportation is available but what they hell do I do about a work schedule? Do I put the child in daycare half the day? He got into that summer program but now I need to figure out what weeks that runs (2 weeks of the summer he was not able to get in) and which weeks are the same as summer school. Does this make any sense at all? I am just having the hardest time trying to figure out what to do. I have never used a daycare before so I don't even know how it works and if he can come for just a few hrs a day (and will the buses drop him off there?) and a full day on Fridays?
How in the heck am I going to make sure that the boys get the right buses (Zach on the summer program bus and Bailey on the summer school bus) AND get the girls off to daycare? It just seems like a whole lot of work to shuffle the kids around and try to have myself some kind of work schedule amist it all. Is it really worth it I wonder? I mean this summer Johnny will be getting more hrs anyway...so now I don't know if it is worth me finding a job or not.
I know, I am rambling. So sorry, my mind is going a hundred miles an hr trying to figure this all out. I want what is best for my kids and don't want them to waste their entire summer being shuffled here and there and not having the normal lazy summer days they are used to and deserve.
I just don't know what to do!
Here's my problem-Bailey needs to go to summer school for 4 weeks starting June 12th because he (per his teacher) "needs the structure so he doesn't regress with his behavior when 3rd grade starts". His grades are superb but his teacher feels that he will have a hard time getting back into the groove of things when the school year starts in the fall because 3rd grade is more difficult and he has a hard time with unstructured situations. Hard to explain but we feel he needs summer school to be ready for 3rd grade emotionally. Anyway....summer school is Mon-Thurs 8am until 2pm. Transportation is available but what they hell do I do about a work schedule? Do I put the child in daycare half the day? He got into that summer program but now I need to figure out what weeks that runs (2 weeks of the summer he was not able to get in) and which weeks are the same as summer school. Does this make any sense at all? I am just having the hardest time trying to figure out what to do. I have never used a daycare before so I don't even know how it works and if he can come for just a few hrs a day (and will the buses drop him off there?) and a full day on Fridays?
How in the heck am I going to make sure that the boys get the right buses (Zach on the summer program bus and Bailey on the summer school bus) AND get the girls off to daycare? It just seems like a whole lot of work to shuffle the kids around and try to have myself some kind of work schedule amist it all. Is it really worth it I wonder? I mean this summer Johnny will be getting more hrs anyway...so now I don't know if it is worth me finding a job or not.I know, I am rambling. So sorry, my mind is going a hundred miles an hr trying to figure this all out. I want what is best for my kids and don't want them to waste their entire summer being shuffled here and there and not having the normal lazy summer days they are used to and deserve.
I just don't know what to do!
I don't know how so many women do it, especially single parents. I hope you figure out something, since I don't know anything about daycare yet 
Think about it we can talk.
2. We never see each other 3. every time that I have gotten a night job in the past we have had major marrital problems so we decided that I wouldn't work nights again for awhile.
I just don't know how ya'll (working moms) do it! What do you do with the kids when they are off school for parent/teacher meetings and stuff? Send em to a daycare for just a couple of days here and there throughout the year? Do daycares let you do that? I am so clueless! 
