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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 9-year-old.

On a typical weekday I spend anywhere from 4-7 hours with her. Not like I'm entertaining her that whole time or that DH isn't also there most of that time. On a typical weekend it's more like... 10 hours on average? That's time I'm at least accessible to her, probably doing something with her or parallel to her that doesn't involve either of us on devices or anything.

There are times I am just really busy between work and hobbies/friends/etc. and/or she has some additional special activity, something she's doing outside the house with DH or a friend, and so on. A day where we're really ships passing would be 1-2 hours on a weekday or 3-ish on the weekends.

But I think a good minimum would be more than that-- we start getting out of synch when we don't have time to connect. If she seems to be acting like a jerk, it's almost always because she hasn't had enough time with me (or DH, or both).

So a good "minimum" would probably be about 3-4 hours on a weekday, and more on a weekend.

I think that sounds like a lot, but it's not (for us). 1.5 hours hanging out, eating, getting ready in the morning, with some "special" time to read together or play a game or something. Plus 1.5 hours like that around dinner and/or an hour around bedtime? That's 3-4 hours right there.

We are lucky we can do that, but even my extremely busy parents, who worked long hours and had me in aftercare, each probably had 2-3 hours with me like that on a weekday. [/quote]

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