My college had a kindergarden for staff. That seemed to be a decent balance. Make it so you spend your lunch hour with your kids if it's really that important (

My college had a kindergarden for staff. That seemed to be a decent balance. Make it so you spend your lunch hour with your kids if it's really that important (and spend less time commuting as well). A lot of these problems seem to me to have been created by very poor urban planning. If you work in a city it shouldn't be a big deal to have lunch with whoever/go down to the post office/ get away to the park for a bit. Been doing it my whole life.