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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d like to just blame the pandemic: certainly, I feel like I was just staggering out of the preschool years and then COVID hit—and bam, we’re WAH and zoom-schooling a K & 2nd grader. But things are better now and have been for months and I am just… well, nothing’s going on up there really.  Maybe exhaustion is the wrong word, because although [b]I’m sure I don’t get enough sleep[/b], it is more that my mental/emotional bandwidth has gone from huge replenishable volumes—to like 1 inch wide.

We were discussing what our ideal vacation was post-COVID, and all I could come up with was a room on the beach to snooze. Hitting a wall at work and a friend had me brainstorming other possibilities and I was just like, “I don’t know, a sabbatical?” Is this a parenting thing (though it also makes me lamest Mom ever)? A post-pandemic thing? Just a “me” thing – or does anyone else relate?  Maybe it [i]could [/i]be solved with 1 month straight of sleep but it’s not like that's a realistic solution, so then how to address?
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Start with the bolded. It also impacts your mental and emotional health to not be getting enough sleep, especially if you’ve been operating at a sleep deficit for years. Make sleep a priority. What’s stopping you from going to bed earlier or sleeping later? With kids those ages, you should be able to get 8 hour a night. [/quote]

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