How do you solo parents go to conferences with school-age kids? It seems essentially impossible unless the conference is over the summer.
How do you solo parents go to conferences with school-age kids? It seems essentially impossible unless the conference is over the summer.
Mine are similarly far away… which means that they’re generally quite happy to get dedicated grandkid time, if they can clear their schedules. I totally understand the reciprocation piece - I have a couple of colleagues in town that are always offering to help me out but never let me help them in any way, and it’s hard. I left a school where I had a tribe of people who could watch the kids for a bit or help out with things for a place where I’m trying to build that community and it is a really difficult thing to do.
It is.
Most of my colleagues don’t know my situation. Mostly because it doesn’t come up normally, but also I don’t like talking about my situation, so that doesn’t help. Probably just need to talk about it some anyway.