Six years into this parenting gig, and I still get blindsided by that sneaky, singular week in August when summer camps have ended, and schools have not yet started — also known as the “childcare dead zone.”
This year, however, we Frankensteined a plan at the last minute with two other families to divide up the weeklong, end-of-summer intermission. We survived, and we couldn’t have done it without a little homegrown ingenuity and modern-parent gumption.
I got together with two friends to go over our schedules
To patch together a plan, two of my mom friends and I looked over each of our households’ work and activity schedules for the week and…
