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[ 19 Dec 2008 | One Comment ]
Are you a ‘Relay Parent’?  I am…

Raisngkids has identified a new kind of family unit, the ‘relay parents’.
Relay parents take turns of working and looking after the kids, working in ‘shifts’. They report that research shows that parents are spending more time with their kids but less time together or as a family unit.
How it works for us…
Over the past six months what was a part time job for me sometimes exceeded twenty-five or thirty hours. My husband works shifts and I slotted my shifts around his, we took turns of looking after our daughter. …