People with kids and full time jobs, what does your schedule looks like?

We only have daycare twice a week, and my partner and I both work full time. I’ve been working from 6–10 AM, spend the day with my son, and come back 4–8 PM, but I wonder if there’s a better way?

@rafa Living in socialist utopia Scandinavia. We have daycare, kindergarten, school for all three. Neither my wife nor I have a regular jobby job.

There's no good way. Parental leave helps when they are the smallest. Your time is just severely limited now so make the best out of the hours that you have and try not to be bummed out too much in the hours where work is on your mind but the kid is in your hands.

That's what has helped me the most. To be ok with working less.

@rafa (I realise and cherish the privilege of just being able to choose to work less. I think about the families with 2 working parents and work schedules and how impossible it seems every single day.)
@mikker wise words here 🙏