How to Manage Spring Break as a Working Parent
success.com, adding to the frenetic pace of life that comes with juggling a career while raising a family. Here are a few tips to successfully navigate spring break as a working parent, as well as how to better address .Unlike an up-all-night sick child who requires day-of scrambling to readjust schedules, you’ll know at the start of the school year the date of your child’s spring break.
Then you can determine if you’d like to:Monica Vaughan, a St. Louis-based healthcare worker, takes off every other spring break to spend time doing something fun with her children, who are 17 and 12.
During those off years, she employs other strategies.“I worked with other moms to have our kids spend the day together to help prevent boredom or being alone,” she says. “When my parents lived in town, they would help and have a sleepover with the kids.”So if you determine a coinciding family vacation isn’t in the cards, perhaps you can take off a day or two during spring break and swap childcare with a friend or neighbor who is taking off the other days.
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