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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 50 with kids in 6th and 8th grades, normal amount of activities, high-stress job. DH has WFH flexibility and does more of the hands-on tasks; I’m the planner and am out of the house from 7:30-6pm.

Problem is, I’m utterly exhausted. I have trouble staying asleep and do weights or light cardio in the morning. After work I can’t do anything but do my share of taking kids to activities, maybe read or watch TV for 30 minutes, and collapse in bed. At the end of last year, I did not have energy to keep up with the kids’ academic performance. DH and I have made a plan to be more on top of things but I don’t know where I’ll get the energy.

I worry about work and our finances and home repairs and the kids (no huge problems with the kids). Did anyone have an energy dip at this age and how did you manage it?

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I'm 43 and I'm the hands on flexible parent whose DH has the more demanding job. But I say to him often that I don't understand how people do this with more than 2 kids. Each of my kids is in one fairly involved extracuricular but that's it. We do stay on top of their grades and assignments and between that and the extracurriculars I'm comletely tapped out. [/quote]

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