Has your spouse seen the kids school?

[Tenacious_D]

So it just hit me the other day that it's very unlikely that DH will ever see DS's preschool. Kind of sad about this but I realize I'm not the only one. Just curious how many of your spouses will never or rarely see the inside of your kids school/classroom. Is it worth taking a half day/vacation day to make this happen before the end of the school year? When I went to orientation night, I was the only parent there without a spouse Tis the life I guess.

[Phoebe]

Yes. DH occassionally has days off during the week when he takes only call or back up. He will go to the girl's school for lunch where he almost gets sent to the principal's office. He will also drive DD to preschool sometimes.

Well, he sees it every time he drives home b/c it's in our neighborhood, but I could count on one hand how many times he's been inside. (we're in our 6th year there) I do all of it solo. It doesn't bother me. I wouldn't waste the precious vacation time for that.

[Pollyanna]

Dh does the kid drop off whenever possible (usually the high school drop off is easy for him) and we typically scheduled a day off for the first and last days of school so he could be there and then periodically during the year.

[GrayMatterWife]

I do all the orientation, parent meetings, etc. myself. But (when he was living in STL), DH would occasionally pop over to the girls' nursery school, which is on the hospital campus. DH also did a presentation for DS's class one day on his vacation week--he presented on...surprise, surprise...the brain! The kids LOVED it!

[SuzySunshine]

In Roch DH was able to make it to one daddy and me sports night, here he has not but hopefully will at least be able to make something this year.

[MrsK]

Day care is at the hospital. Daddy does drop off most of the time. He also attends parents' meetings when he can.

[v-girl]

It's our dining room. He does science experiments after ballet class 1-2 nights a week. When they went to Catholic school he was there as often as possible. He'd have lunch with the girls on his way home after being on call or would stop in to give a talk or help with a class party.

[Auspicious]

I had that same thought "Wow he's never going to set foot in this place." I also felt weird that he would never meet the weekday sitter, since she spends hours each week in his home and with his kids.

He has ended up doing each of those once so far, though.

I don't think I'd purposely use vacation time for it.

[moonlight]

DH hasn't seen the inside of the preschool only the outside from across the street, same with the ballet studio. He has however seen the inside of the gym and picked up DD from that childcare area at the gym.

[diggitydot]

Yup, he's been inside each of the kids' schools at least once. Which I think is fairly decent considering they're all at different schools now.

[alison]

My husband is coming to M's preschool open houses to select the ones we apply to. I'm involving him in this process every step of the way. I also fully expect him to participate in class projects, show and tell, field trips. All. Of. It.

[BonBon]

We always make sure he's post-call for the important days. It's worked out well, but he is off after a 24 hour shift. I doubt you guys have that luxury. (omg, I can't believe that's a LUXURY! but it is!!)

[ides]

Dh has been inside once, when we first moved here & met with the director & toured the class rooms. We have left this preschool as of last week though. Not sure if he'll see the next one. I'm sure he'd like to but not sure it will happen.

DH does the preschool run about half the time. But that's EM for you. He works mostly evening shifts.