Both working parents
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Topic: Both working parents
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Both working parents
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 9:52pm
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Question for you: When a child is sick who takes the time off work to look after the sick child?? For us as DH works shifts (4 days on 2 afternoons, 2 mornings, 2 days off) so if a child is sick and it is his day off he will look after the child or he will have them around his shift and then I will go home to look after them. My boss is really good with me taking time off (very strange for the army) for my children, but he does have a few so totally understands children issues. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 9:57pm
| Mostly its me - hubby is self employed so sometimes (with arm twisting) he is able to be the one at home. I always feel like I get a bit of attitude of work if I'm away and last time I had my mum fly down to help! |
Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 10:07pm
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It's usually DH in our case. I have a client list which is more difficult to cancel at short notice, whereas he pretty much controls what he does on a daily basis. -------------   
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Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 8:42am
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DH in our house. He is in I.T. so can either log on through the remote network or just catch up another day. I have work (personal trainer) so often cant reschedule clients cos i dont work full time or im at uni which i cant miss cos bio-med needs a really high attendance rate or they can fail you so we dont really get a choice. lol ------------- 
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Posted By: lemongirl
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 8:59am
| DP will take time off work to go visit his daughter when she is sick. I'm not sure how much time her mother takes off but as her grandmother is a 24/7 nanny it's not really much of an issue. |
Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 10:32am
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It was mainly me that took time off when both DH and I worked.
I had unlimited sick leave, DH only had 10 days. But, since DH works shift work and often has weekdays off he would take care of Janaya on those days. |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 1:20pm
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I only work part-time, but its always me. The army don't give you much choice when you're a soldier lol
When I was growing up, it was always my dad, as mums job was more important in the grand scheme of things. For us, when I go out full time next year, it'll be more or MIL (or my dad if need be). DH might be able to finish a bit earlier, but that's about it. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 5:00pm
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depends - sometimes lew sometimes me. problem is, with being a teacher, still involves lots of work. And I have ncea classes. we are lucky enough to have both my mum and nana around though so often a sick kid will go to one of them.
if they have to go to the doctor though i prefer to go with them. |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 6:17pm
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Its me, but I handle sick kids better than DH. he used to look after them when I worked in the weekends but I took time off during the week for sick kids. I used to save my sick leave for the kids.
Now I am a SAHM its still me, lol. |
Posted By: LittleBug
Date Posted: 23 October 2009 at 1:49am
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Depends, here. DH on his days off (of course), but he isn't eligible for sick pay yet (hasn't worked there long enough) and we need the money, so I either miss lectures/labs if I can. If they are too important to miss or I HAVE to attend, then I try to get someone else to help out (friends, family)... if no one else can, then DH has to get time off work. But that's a last resort, and only if I can't get home to look after them. ------------- Chloe (4 years) and Oliver (3 years). |