5 Time Management Tips for Parents with Kids in Daycare
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he first time I dropped my son off at day care, I was split between two distinct emotions. 1) the guilt/sadness that surrounds handing your beautiful baby over to another for the first time and 2) the unabashed giddiness that came on like a rush of free-time to the brain. What was I going to do with all these baby-free hours? I had work and errands naturally but all of those had previously been juggled with a baby on the hip, in the car, in the shopping cart. I smelt freedom!
Fast-forward two weeks and somebody had clearly been up to something sneaky with the time-space continuum. What had previously seemed like a huge block of free time had become mere minutes. Nine to five had compressed itself into the space of one read through the email, a load of laundry and a conference call. Maybe I ate a granola bar for lunch in there somewhere. How could it be so!