concernedmom4ki
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I am changing my entire work schedule around - I am even hiring another person JUST so that I can leave at 2:30 every day and go and pick the kids up from school. This also means that I will be able to start on their homework every day with them by 3?:00.stealth2 said:Why can your kids not do homework before they go to Dad's?
That's great and fine and dandy but here's the scenario: I will get home with them at 3 - their dad gets off between 3:30 and 4:00 and will get to my house within 10 minutes of when he gets off to pick them up on his days. That's doesn't give me too much time to get their homework done on those days - on my days it won't matter. Then when dad picks them up around 4, I have already given my hours at work to this new person and schedule my 40 work hours around my kids to ensure that I will be able to pick them up every day from school.
On dad's nights, he will leave with them and I will have to wait until the next day to go back to work. I will also be working 7 days a week more than likely in order to get my 40 hrs a week that is required in.
Then, he also gets to work his work days start to finish and looks better to the courts - that he has a more straight work schedule than I do and when my husband is home from work on his days off, I will go to work and work when they are here in order to make up my time from getting off during the school week to go get them for me and their dad.
Their father isn't going to do homework in the car on the way home, I know that.
I do understand that - I just feel they shouldn't have to give up things they really want to do because their father chose to move somewhere else that's so far away. They've told me they didn't want to move over there; they want to live here. They say that they've given up everything in their lives that have been part of their lives for all these years and they don't understand why they had to.There's homeroom. There's lunch. Both of those can be used to do homework. And if they can't find the time to do homework otherwise - sports are out. Make them responsible for figuring out how to get their work done.