My DD (only) has just started Primary School and I am trying to get my head around how my future will be. I have worked 4 full days days a week since my DD was 9 months and finished work in the Summer as my firm closed down. I now am not sure what to do as it seems a nightmare trying to combine work with school hours/before and after school clubs/holidays and what the school expects/wants from parents. It was relatively easy with nurseries and I have been lucky to have earned enough to have paid for care.
I would deep down love the chance to stay at home for a while to help my DD settle in to school, maybe doing some low key freelance work to lessen my guilt (I really didn't enjoy what I did and would like to rethink what else I could do). I am lucky that my DH is bringing in enough money at the moment for us to manage on one salary.
Is this bad? I cannot find any mums (or dads) at school who are in my situation. They either have a younger child still at home or they are not at the school gates because they are working and their child is in the breakfast or after school club. I am also asked what it is that I do and I find myself saying that I have my own business which seems to satisfy people but is a big front. I feel completely on my own but don't yet just want to accept that being a stay at home mum when your child is at school is a 'total doss' (what I think others are thinking) or that I am destined to be the one who juggles paid and unpaid work never being happy that I'm doing either role well and getting really stressed about holidays etc.
Am I going mad?
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Is it ok to be a stay at home mum when the kids are at school?
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bepi01 · 20/11/2013 12:58
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