General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by bilmore
Alternately, you can beat him. Then, he will be happy when you leave, and things will go much smoother at drop-off.

Pickups may become a problem, though.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Pickups may become a problem, though.

If he's old enough to understand bribery use that. Something simple like a fitty.

Seriously, I used to promise my kid Godzilla pictures (back when the internet wasn't in every house)

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Pickups may become a problem, though.

Just send the mom to do the pick-up. You people with kids make things much too complicated.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
L'il Ty (who is, for these purposes, four years old) is having a really hard time saying goodbye to people. When his mother went out the door this morning, he sobbed in the doorway as she left, and 15 minutes later, when I got out of the shower, he was standing in the front door sobbing again. When it's time to drop him off at pre-school, he does well until it's time for a goodbye hug, and then he doesn't want to let go. If I'm going to get to work, I need the help of the teacher with a crowbar and some pepper spray. OK, not quite, but there's more sobbing.

This seems like a phase. Any suggestions for dealing with it?

this is Dad 101. Go to work an hour earlier so the wife has to drop him. then its her problem. Next?

Not as in, kids you had when you started. I mean staring down the barrel of tyring to schedule your final exams around the my wife's delivery date and studying for the bar between 3AM feedings of a newborn.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Ex_post_Festo
Not as in, kids you had when you started. I mean staring down the barrel of tyring to schedule your final exams around the my wife's delivery date and studying for the bar between 3AM feedings of a newborn.

Mine was born 3 weeks before my 1st day. Was hell. Don't do it. Put off one or the other for a year.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Put off one or the other for a year.

Sounds like one option is already out. But generally, having not been through the baby thing during law school, I'd advise multiple redundancy precautions from the end of second year until the end of third year.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Ex_post_Festo
Not as in, kids you had when you started. I mean staring down the barrel of tyring to schedule your final exams around the my wife's delivery date and studying for the bar between 3AM feedings of a newborn.

Went to a four-hour final. Pager went off after twenty minutes. Wrote furiously for ten more, and left.

Got an A.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bilmore Pager went off after twenty minutes. Wrote furiously for ten more, and left.

You have anger management issues.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Mine was born 3 weeks before my 1st day. Was hell. Don't do it. Put off one or the other for a year.

The Wonk Princess was born six weeks before finals. I don't think I went to more than 10 classes. And it was my best semester, grade-wise.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Ex_post_Festo
Not as in, kids you had when you started. I mean staring down the barrel of tyring to schedule your final exams around the my wife's delivery date and studying for the bar between 3AM feedings of a newborn.

Not here. The impending arrival of our first was announced to me two days after I completed the Bar Exam. Timing was just about perfect.

[Flinty_McFlint]

I'll let you know after the paternity hearing.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Sounds like one option is already out.

Give that man a cigar (apparently the first of many). Wonk and Billmore, your stories are heartening; Hand - something like that was the plan, would that my wife had timing like yours; Pony - yikes (thought probably all too true).

I used to joke about how I would get stuck with all girls because things couldn't once slide my way easily. Murphy found a way to one-up my defeatism.

Thanks for past and future comments.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Ex_post_Festo
Give that man a cigar (apparently the first of many).

Two thoughts, that aren't silly:

1) How many paper courses can you take in the Spring? That allows you to control timing somewhat, by avoiding exams.

2) Can you do a clerkship, and take the bar after that? Or maybe your firm will let you take it in Feb.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
2) Can you do a clerkship, and take the bar after that? Or maybe your firm will let you take it in Feb.

I disagree with this. Anything short of triplets and I'd go ahead and take the bar immediately. But if at all possible, don't work while studying for it. No one will blink at just studying for the bar the summer after graduation, but if you try to take it some other time, you'll be studying for the bar, raising a kid, and working. While it's doable, I think you'll find that the area that gets shortest shrift in that situation is raising the kid, and this will be disappointing to you.

So sign up for Barbri, take a morning class, read another two hours in the library and then go home. Catch another hour or two of study while the kid naps. You'll be okay.

I guess the other question is: do you already have a job in hand? If so, you're in a lot better position. Last semester grades will be much less critical. Getting As when you've got a three day old may be a challenge, but Cs are a different matter. It would be highly unlikely for a firm to pull an offer for bad last semester grades under the particular circumstances.