My daughter will be 13 in July and entering 8th grade in September 2015. I am looking ahead to her high school years and I am scared to death.

There are no after care programs for kids in the school where my daughter is going, which means I will have to rely on the kindness of strangers to
help me get my kid home and watch her.

My mother has been a great help with this in the summer because the programs are 9-330 and I work 730-4. I am single mom. My mother is
80 years old and won't be around forever to help (she is in very good health though).

I don't have a lot of trust when it comes to having strangers deal with my daughter. I am really scared like should I quit my job? I have been a government employee for almost 19 years and I planned to stay here until
I retired in 11 years (I'm 51).

I don't know what advice anyone has, but I just had to put this out there to
folks that would understand. She is my only child and her dad is no help to
me.

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Mom to Kayla (DS, Polyarticular Arthritis 7/11/2002)

Anybody you can say this to? Social worker's best -- someone whose job it is to know who can help.

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Father of Liam (DS, '08 ) and Charles ('10).