# Working parents - what do you do about school breaks?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-parents-what-do-you-do-about-school-breaks/631108>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 10, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-parents-what-do-you-do-about-school-breaks/631108 "2012-08-10T18:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-parents-what-do-you-do-about-school-breaks/631108/4 "2012-08-10T20:52:23Z")

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You may discover that child care costs eats up any extra income you make working full time. Especially since you have 4 kids and summer & Christmas break is a long time to cover these costs. Plus you need a babysitter from 3:30-5 after school.

My wife worked part time until our oldest daughter was 11. Then she became the babysitter for the other two siblings. Freeing up my wife to work full time.

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