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 Our kids (4 & 1) both go to school/day care 5 days a week, I work from 6:30am-5pm with sporadic step-aways to do chores/care for the kids (like bring them to school).

Unfortunately with both parents working full time, it's very hard to do anything less than 5 days of daycare, imo. Wife was in a crunch last month and even with daycare she was working every night once the kids were asleep.

@rafa and yes, as others have noted: basically an entire income is sunk into daycare/after-school programs.