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It’s a totally different story with 2 or more children.

Your toddler won’t be quite as accommodating to the schedule of a newborn. Having two parents at home makes it much easier to manage a newborn, erratic sleep schedules, and other children.




That is if the older child is not in kindergarden.


That's 5 or 6 hours a day for 5 days a week. Do you think toddlers just look after themselves for the rest of the time?


I don't know how it works in your country, in mine kids are in kindergarden while the parent(s) is at work. After that it has both parents available.


That kinda depends on your working hours, which pretty everyone who doesn't encounter the problem seems to forget.

Two or three days a week I'm alone with my daughter for most of the afternoon and evening. My wife works retail and isn't home until right around our daughters bedtime.

If I worked in retail, you could easily end in a situation where I'd be home during the first opening hours of the daycare, but not be home for 4 hours in the afternoon and evening where daycare isn't available.




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