Daycare cost is legitimately insane in Boston
Just got the quote for our second kid starting in Sept and I'm actually sitting in my car at work writing this because I'm too embarrassed to show my wife in person. $2,400/month f
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Balancing work, family, and the mental load.
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Just got the quote for our second kid starting in Sept and I'm actually sitting in my car at work writing this because I'm too embarrassed to show my wife in person. $2,400/month f
FINALLY. Been at this company 4 years and they just updated their policy. My third kid is due in 2 months and I'll actually get to take real time, not just burning through PTO. Pla
We're looking at $2,400/month for 3-year-old and $2,100 for before/after for the kindergartener. That's $4,500 a month. Our household income is like $180k combined and this feels i
Just got back to work after 6 weeks with my newborn (baby #2) and honestly I'm already missing it. The first few weeks were chaotic - mom was freaking out, I had no idea what I was
I'm not proud of it but I mark myself as in meetings when I'm actually at my son's soccer practice. My company says they're "flexible" but there's definitely a culture of 60-hour w
So I've been trying to do my job from home while my son naps and after bedtime, but our daycare is closed Wednesdays for staff training. Yesterday I had back-to-back client calls s
Real question: have any of you found companies that genuinely don't make you feel like garbage for having parental responsibilities? Like where "my kid is sick and I need to leave"
OK so I sell custom wood signs on Etsy. Started 4 months ago as a joke basically. Spend like 90 minutes 3-4 nights a week in the garage after my kids are asleep doing the work. Fi
Quick update for anyone who read my post last year about starting freelance writing on nights/weekends. I'm now pulling in $800-1200/month consistently, which doesn't sound like mu
We keep double-booking ourselves because we're using different systems (she's iCal, I'm Google). Need something that actually syncs and maybe lets us see each other's work availabi
I pick up my kids at 5:45pm. They want my attention immediately. I'm exhausted. Brain is fried. All I want to do is zone out with my phone but they're asking me to play with them,
Started freelancing on weekends to save for a house down payment. Seemed simple - 5 hours Saturday/Sunday. But now I'm doing it at night after the kids are asleep and it's like...
Got the senior role I've been gunning for, but it's 2 weeks/month travel. My youngest starts kindergarten in August. I keep telling myself the money is worth it, the prestige, the
Title bump, 15% raise, but definitely more hours expected. My twins just turned 6 and are actually at fun ages now - they remember stuff I do with them, we can have conversations,
I've tried Google Calendar blocking, Toggl, RescueTime, all that stuff. The problem is I block the time but then something "urgent" comes up and I move it anyway. Looking for some
Anyone else WFH with a young kid in the house? My son just turned 4 and daycare is $2,100/month so we pulled him out for summer. I thought I'd "just manage" but I'm losing it. Had
My wife and I are constantly double-booking stuff or missing events because we don't have a single source of truth for what everyone's doing. She's got stuff in her Google calendar
Just realized that because of my work schedule (leaving at 7am, not home till 5:30pm) and my son's school pickup being at 6pm, I basically see him for 30 minutes before bed. He's c
My daughter is 4 months old and I have 12 weeks of parental leave available. Company policy lets me use it anytime in the first year. Wife's suggesting I take it all at once when s
Which is great! I'm genuinely proud of her. But also... she's now working 50-55 hour weeks and traveling monthly. We had a pretty even split on kid stuff but that's about to get a