Well, I Made My Ex-wife Mad At Me

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But you can choose to go to Mass. do you go to the service with your gf .
 
scrap that.

Then you might find time for online during that 4 days.

And get to Mass!
 
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lonegreywolf20 said:
I’m pretty smart, but not that smart. The math alone would cause me issues. I never made it past beginning fractions in high school because I don’t get it. I have tried and tried and had people try to teach me, I just don’t understand fractions once you get past beginning fractions. So, I have never taken algebra either. I tried algebra in college because I was going to get my EMS degree, but got lost in the first chapters.

PA, while a good move, is out of my reach academically. Which to be honest means nursing would be as well. I have seen the math that nurses have had to do and it makes my head spin.
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That’s too bad.

You might want to have another go at fractions, just to be able to help your kids with school. (Of course, at some point almost all of us find that our kids’ school math gets ahead of us.)

Kumon has a Grade 6 Fractions workbook that is totally devoted just to fractions with answers in the back.
 
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The other thing I have to look at is that I get my kids four days a week, how many jobs will only let me work three days a week?
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Your youngest will be in kindergarten soon.

You need to be moving toward an income level that would allow you to afford childcare as needed.

More money fixes a lot of your problems.
 
Also, with better legal support, you might feel more confident about dealing with your ex-wife.

For example, it might turn out that you can take your kids to church with you if that’s where you are going anyway.

Obviously, I’m not encouraging you to go against any court orders, just saying that with better income, you can get better legal support, and with better legal support, you wouldn’t have to be so scared about your ex-wife and what she wants or thinks.

Edited to add: Also, as your kids get bigger, they are going to have more weekend engagements (for example, birthday parties) and will be more and more interested in activities. My 5-year-old, for example, has been bugging me about putting her in ballet, and I didn’t even suggest it to her. She figured out for herself that it was an option, just because other kids at school were doing it. So your lifestyle is going to change a lot as the kids move out of the preschool age category.

Good luck!
 
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Your youngest will be in kindergarten soon.

You need to be moving toward an income level that would allow you to afford childcare as needed.

More money fixes a lot of your problems.
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Their schedules will change, too. They will want to do afterschool things and they will need money to do that. They will need time with friends to develop healthy social interactions. You might be able to provide what a toddler needs, but you seem unprepared for the rapidly approaching future.
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Kumon has a Grade 6 Fractions workbook that is totally devoted just to fractions with answers in the back.
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Yes, and Kahn academy starts at Kindergarten and you can work your way up.

There is no one who can’t do Math. There are people who suffer from learning disabilities that make learning Math difficult but it can be done.

Math phobia seems to be the “special snowflake” cry of those who are over 30 being unable to advance themselves. I cannot tell you how many adult learners whose hands I held through basic math, more advanced math all the way up to differential equations. Very, very few students had a disability so severe it couldn’t be overcome in some way.
 
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For the next, 3 years?, your kids will be below the age when they must be enrolled in school.

Unless you and their mom are going to co-homeschool, the kids will be with their mom on school days. Perhaps plan on working toward a higher paying job (because the cost increases with school!!) once they are both in school.

If, otoh, you are going to homeschool them, then, get some math study going now!
 
They are with me two out of five school days as my five year old is in pre-school.

I work three days during the week and they are with me the other two days during the week along with Saturday and Sunday.

I realize that most divorced fathers only have their kids every other weekend or every weekend, but our parenting plan is different in that I have them for four days and three nights and she has them three days and four nights.

I have a couple years before my three year old is in school, but even then I am the one that will drop them off at school and pick them up as their school will be in their town and not mine, so there is no bus to bring them home. I pickup and drop off my daughter now at preschool on my days that I have them.
 
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