Childcare trials and tribulations during COVID
I've spoken with a number of my colleagues and clients recently - several with new babies - who were asking me what we ended up doing with respect to childcare and COVID and I thought it might be helpful to walk through our logic, process, and approach in a post. Without a doubt, the hardest part of COVID has been figuring out our new approach to childcare and dealing with the uncertainty of the ever evolving future outlook of what is going to happen with COVID. I've talked with many other working parents about how they are approaching this - and there have been as many different solutions as there are working parents. For context, pre-COVID, our kids were in daycare and we normally have our kids in daycare from like 7:30-5:15ish. We really had a great experience with daycare. They have taught us about being parents (shout out to learning about Boudreaux's Butt Paste for diaper rash!) and have taught our children things that we didn't know they were ready for like using