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[quote=Anonymous]I only have one kid (5 years old) and I feel like my entire life revolves around her. My work schedule revolves around her, and even when I'm at work I always have stuff for her floating around in the back of my head, even as I focus on other things.

Even when I do things that have nothing to do with her, the timing of it revolves around her needs and timing. Like if I go out on my own or with my DH, I still have to make sure all her needs are met first, that we have childcare lined up and food arranged for her and also that we've prepared her for us to be out.

I thought this would change by the time she started school, but it hasn't. If anything, school is harder than daycare in terms of how much it requires of me. There is ALWAYS something -- random days off, paperwork, special theme day, teacher conference, fundraiser, etc. I'm not even hugely involved at school at this point, and it still takes up so much bandwidth. I naively thought once she started kindergarten I'd just send her to school and maybe help with homework sometimes in the evening. Nope.[/quote]

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