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On average in a given 7 day week how many hours do you spend....
Working (i.e. including commuting/ extra hours at home, work functions and travel): Interacting with your kids (i.e. playing, doing activities together, talking, bedtime routines): Focused on your spouse/marriage / relationship (i.e. date nights, sitting chatting about your day/life, intimacy): Personal Time (i.e. gym, kid-free social time, hair/spa, hobbies or sports): House/yard work: Sleeping: I know other things take up time i.e. church, volunteering, family events/commitments..if those are significant in your life, feel free to add them. I feel we are a little out of balance so curious as to what others are doing. |
Aimee4
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On average in a given 7 day week..
Working: 40 hours. Interacting with your kids: 45ish. Not counting the morning because its really a race out the door, and not counting nap time. So 2-3 hours each night, plus the entire time they are awake on the weekends. Granted, some of this time is double dipping - talking to them as I load the dishwasher, etc. Focused on your spouse/marriage / relationship: 3 hrs minimum, we do a date day once a month. Other than that, our time together without interruption is usually 30-1hr after the kids go to bed or during naptime. Personal Time: 3 hours House/yard work: 3-4 hours, usually in 15-30 minute increments, never all at once. Sleeping: 50-60 |
Anonymous
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Working 55
Kids: 30-40 Spouse: 5 Personal: 2-3 Sleeping: 50 |
Anonymous
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I think that you are addressing this wrong. If I viewed each of these activities as mutually exclusive, it would be a pretty tough life. But, it isn't because I combine. For instance, I have a ten minute walk to work, but I walk with my child so I talk to her. I often socialize while interacting with my child and while doing chores - i.e., we walk to the farmers market and talk to friends and buy our groceries. My family typically spends the whole weekend together (aside from a couple runs), but we often entertain during that time. Is that relationship time, or child time, or personal time? My child sits in the kitchen as I cook dinner and helps me, or I help her work on projects - is that chore time or kid time? My husband and I talk as we fold laundry, is that relationship time or chore time? I have put in my gut responses below (that don't quite add up), but really, you should try to combine some of these activities to make them more enjoyable.
On average in a given 7 day week how many hours do you spend.... Working (i.e. including commuting/ extra hours at home, work functions and travel): 40 (10 minute walk to work) Interacting with your kids (i.e. playing, doing activities together, talking, bedtime routines): 30 Focused on your spouse/marriage / relationship (i.e. date nights, sitting chatting about your day/life, intimacy): 4 (but much of the 30 hours with my child is also with my husband) Personal Time (i.e. gym, kid-free social time, hair/spa, hobbies or sports): 5 (but much of the time with my family is actually socializing with others also) House/yard work: 2 (live in a condo) Sleeping: 51 |
Anonymous
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Working: 50
Kids: 40 (3hrs per weekday; 12hrs per weekend day) Spouse: 12-15 Personal: 4 House cleaning: 3 Sleep: 55 |
Anonymous
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Working: 35
Kids: 42 (3hrs per 4 work days, rest average 10 hrs) Spouse: 10 (<1/day + 1-2 hrs on weekend - and that's counting joint TV watching!) Personal: 4 (4 trips to the gym) House cleaning/cooking: 5 Sleep: 60 (I need my sleep!) |
Anonymous
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12 hours a week commuting to/from work and another 2-3 commuting to more fun stuff.
49 hours sleeping if I'm lucky. (or tossing and turning if i'm not.) 10 hours a week working out. 7 hour-ish long workouts plus 2 hour-long yoga classes. 36 hour work week, though I'm supposed to work 37.5. At busy times, I work a bit more, and I often check email from home at night or on weekends. I spend about 28 waking hours a week with my child, because she's at her dad's two nights a week. (she spends about 50 hours a week at daycare, which does make me sad.) Maybe 2-4 hours each week are spent on house and yard work. I do a lot of quick clean-ups while my daughter is eating or taking a bath, and laundry is generally done on my telework day. Maybe 2 hours of errands per weekend, generally after a gym visit while we're already out of the house. I don't have a spouse or a boyfriend, but I probably spend about 4-6 hours a weekend with friends. The rest of the time is mostly just chilling or reading. I used to volunteer, but it's hard to schedule with the kid now. |
Anonymous
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Working (i.e. including commuting/ extra hours at home, work functions and travel): 50
Interacting with your kids (i.e. playing, doing activities together, talking, bedtime routines): 7 Focused on your spouse/marriage / relationship (i.e. date nights, sitting chatting about your day/life, intimacy): 3 Personal Time (i.e. gym, kid-free social time, hair/spa, hobbies or sports): 8 House/yard work: 5 Sleeping: 40 I know other things take up time i.e. church, volunteering, family events/commitments..if those are significant in your life, feel free to add them. Church/volunteering - 3 - 5 |
Anonymous
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Working: working 32, commuting 4 hours, 1 hour each day 4 times a week
Interacting with your kids: 50 (3 hours 4 days a week, 14 hours 3 days a week) Focused on your spouse/marriage / relationship: 10 Personal Time: 12 hours (this includes one half hour to get ready for work in the mornings, gym twice a week, reading and TV) House work/cooking: 5 hours Sleeping: 55 My activities are mostly mutually exclusive, for instance, I don’t usually do housework when DD (2) and DS(4 months) are awake, and I don’t try to have a meaningful conversation with DH while they are awake unless we are in the car. Housework usually goes by the wayside, but we manage ok somehow. |
Anonymous
Is this a mistake? You only spend 7 hours a week with your children? |
Anonymous
| 7 hours exclusively focused on my kids, yes. Lots of time with kids when they or I are busy with homework, dinner, etc. My kids are in late elementary and middle school. |