I wrote about this a few days ago, but I feel like I have write about it again because it is REALLY getting me down.
This is my second week of working full time and my daughter (3.5) is having a super hard time with it. She is actually in preschool the same amount as she was before, but she goes home with other moms after school for several hours two days a week, then on Thursdays and Fridays she is home with her daddy all day. She's just a mess - emotional, tired, angry ... she also has a cold, which of course doesn't help. She goes back and forth between being super clingy and pushing me away, hitting, screaming, sobbing...
Her teacher actually called me last night to tell me that she'd been really sad at school yesterday (not common - she usually doesn't want me to go but then is OK) and that she'd broken down "weeping" - her words. She also is really shy/embarrassed about crying in front of people when she's not at home, which totally breaks my heart. It's so sad seeing her try to be brave and hold her emotions in.
It's just hard when I work all day, rush to pick her up, she's starving, get home, make dinner, clean up (although I've been trying to let the cleaning go some so I can spend more time with her), give her a bath, then it's time for bed, and she's so tired and needs to go to bed, but I feel like I haven't even spent any time with her...
Sometimes I think it would have been easier if I'd worked full-time starting when she was a baby, so now she'd just be used to it.
The other thing is that we trade overnight babysitting with friends every other weekend which I absolutely LOVE and NEED for my sanity, but I feel bad shipping her off to a sleepover when the weekend is the only time to spend all together. And she never wants to go, although she always has a blast once she is there.
OK, I know I sound really whiny and that this is what millions of people do, and that she will adjust, but PLEASE - any advice? And is it just a phase??