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Handicappers

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What's better?

Your kids at school M-F during the day AND you at work (actually onsite)

OR

Kids home all day everyday and YOU at home all day every day (Pandemic style)



Be honest. Lies will not be tolerated or counted towards the final tally.
 
School M-F and me at work would be better.

Reason: Then I can still take a day off from work and have the house to myself.
 
fordman84 said:
School M-F and me at work would be better.

Reason: Then I can still take a day off from work and have the house to myself.
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My youngest is 29 and lives in South Boston (for now), the both boys are married as of last Saturday and I can have the house to myself any time I want :hammer:
 
My kids (minus the two college students) have been back in school all year. And work is not in a place where they are letting us back, maybe ever. On top of that I just took a job that is technically based on Atlanta, so home is going to be my office for good now.

Only thing that would make this better is for the god damn college to open back up.
 
This "pandemic" is going to change the commercial real estate business in a huge way. Even with paying penalties by opting out early Rex Jr's company has already realized millions of dollars in savings in the last year by having support staff and sales people working out of home offices and ditching the leases on office space around the country. There is no doubt that they aren't going to back to a centralized location when this nonsense is over.
 
I’ve been wondering how parents of kindergarten age kids that worked essential jobs managed. If I have any kids, I don’t know about them and I haven’t missed a day of work because of the pandemic
 
Kids need to be in school and parents need to be at work. Productivity of both suffers under the alternative [with few exceptions].

My daughter is a high school senior whose greatest interests and talents are in the arts. Art. Drama. Music. Hands-on stuff. Group stuff. Remote "learning" was a prison to her. Thankfully, this school year she had remote learning for only two weeks in conjunction with Christmas.
 
Handicappers said:
I can't imagine what this pandemic did as far as kids go

1. domestic violence numbers (kids and adults)
2. poor learning
3. poor diet
4. loss of friends
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I'd say the problem was more the response to the pandemic than the pandemic itself.

Kids should have been in school.

Thankfully, I live in a district that has been 100% open, K-12, for the entire school year.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I’ve been wondering how parents of kindergarten age kids that worked essential jobs managed. If I have any kids, I don’t know about them and I haven’t missed a day of work because of the pandemic
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Daycare I'd assume. The one we used to take our kid to stayed open, even early on last year while the wife and I were at home. They would do the heavy lifting of drop-off and pickup from school. Then we cut that out.

I did the math and I'm saving a boatload of money by working from home. And I don't expect I'll ever have to go back into the office unless I want to on the occasional day, which I will. daycare, tolls, gas, tires/wear and tear, breakfast and lunch at the office...bigtime savings. And the wife was already working from home, so not like our bills at the house went up much.
 
Kids at school. Mine are Kindergarten and 3rd grade.


Zoom does not work for the youngins.
 
Handicappers said:
What's better?

Your kids at school M-F during the day AND you at work (actually onsite)

OR

Kids home all day everyday and YOU at home all day every day (Pandemic style)



Be honest. Lies will not be tolerated or counted towards the final tally.
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Wife's been stay-at-home mom. She hasn't really gotten back to her gig of teaching piano lessons yet. Has two students right now. Before the pandemic, I think she had six.

Wound up homeschooling the kindergartener in lieu of having her sit in front of a tablet. The Catholic school she had gone to pre-K at would have been open for in-person, but wifey wasn't supposed to drive after the stroke, so we just decided to pull her and homeschool, since the public schools were either hybrid or full remote and even the hybrid involved a couple hours on a tablet.

She gets social interaction through her dance classes, karate, and sports (soccer, tee ball).

I'm great with working from home. Have a nice office space in my basement now, I can basically be left alone for most of the day, or stop if I'm not in a call to give my wife a hand when she needs it. Hope I don't have to go back to the office full-time when things reopen, because like @fordman84 I'm saving a shit-ton of money on my commute.
 
I really enjoyed when I was WFH and the kids were remote learning. Mine are older and self-sufficient so that probably made a difference. It was nice taking breaks with them and having lunch together everyday. I'm sure it was not like that for all families.
That being said, that is only sustainable short term. At their ages, they need that daily interaction with their peers.
*so long term, them in school and me on-site at work
 
As it relates to the kids, it really depends on their age and the discipline of the kid.

Our middle daughter was a remote learner pre-pandemic due to her gymnastics schedule. She’s very disciplined and self-motivated, so she hasn’t had any impact to her learning experience due to being remote. Our youngest doesn’t have the same discipline, so she has definitely seen a reduction in learning due to the remote environment.
 
Handicappers said:
What's better?

Your kids at school M-F during the day AND you at work (actually onsite)

OR

Kids home all day everyday and YOU at home all day every day (Pandemic style)



Be honest. Lies will not be tolerated or counted towards the final tally.
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Those 2 options were never a reality for me.

I'd prefer my kid at school and I've said many times we chose virtual this year mostly for consistency. Kids were in and out of class for various "exposure" situations making it just a fucking mess to deal with the constantly changing schedule. One of my daughter's friends went back to the classroom from virtual mid-year and said the classroom was weeks behind what she had already learned in virtual.

But I'll say the real downside is how she learns and even how the day is broken up. Trying to do math on a scratch pad on the computer is complete bullshit. I have to tell my kid constantly to grab a damn piece of paper and write the problem down rather than trying to do everything in your head because writing out a long problem with a scratch pad and your mouse is a pain in the ass. Then there's the questions at lunch if she can play Among Us at lunch or during some break... then has fucking pages of shit to turn in right before bedtime.


Then there's the work aspect... when I'm not traveling, I'm working from home. So the only real change with the pandemic is not having to get on a plane anymore. Once my clients go back in the office I'm sure it'll be a little while before they open travel back up again, but it's only a matter of time. I'll savor my lack of travel for as long as I can, and attempt to cut it to only when necessary.
 
I've had coworkers have to go onsite and the kids (14 and younger) having to do remote.

That sounds like a nightmare.
 
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