Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!mark From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Househusband Message-ID: <60@tove.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 00:38:45 EST Article-I.D.: tove.60 Posted: Mon Dec 3 00:38:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:22:36 EST Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 30 For our first child Vicky continued to work fulltime after a 6 week maternity leave. I was a graduate student nearby (she was a librarian at the same University) and our schedule was: she: up at 8 to work. Me: up with baby at 10 to Vicky for morning feed, then to my office and playpen with baby. Us: lunch. she: back to work. Me: back to office and classes. Sometimes my officemates, fellow grad students, helped out with baby when I had a seminar. I always tried to leave with baby sleeping, but she was not always sleeping when I returned. Luckily I had no real classes to take by this time. We went on this way for 2 years, during which Vicky advanced to head of her own branch library and I finally completed a PhD. Our schedule now is (with two children, aged 3 and 7): She: up at 5:30, to work by 6:30 at the Planning Office of the Library of Congress. Me: up at 7, dress and breakfast and drive children to school. (Both children attend the same Montessori school.) At work by 9:30. She: home at 2, picks up children from school at 3:30. Me: home at 5:30 on good nights, 7:30 on bad nights. Always home for bedtime, which is my job since with Vicky's early rising (see above) she is usually asleep before children. Hardest parts: only seeing Vicky for normal conversation on weekends, and learning what "keeping the house clean" means and trying to do it while with the children. -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: (301) 454-7817 CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark USPS: Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742