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1. Enjoy your child and spend as much time as you can on FUN activities, after work, weekends, etc. You don't have to stress about serving your partner's needs but can focus on your child!
2. Don't try to do too much each day, instead focus on doing what needs to be done (bills, minimal clean up, homework, laundry). Hire a mother's helper every few weeks to play with your child while you get caught up.
3. Don't worry about preparing the perfect dinner-just focus on quick-to-make, healthy foods (or prepared). Cooking, preparing and cleaning up is a huge time sink every evening (and wouldn't you rather take your child to the play ground instead?)
4. Forget about a good night's sleep  :? 
5. If you can find your village, use it but don't count on it. Despite the fact that I have some family and cousins nearby, they rarely offer any assistance  (even when I've asked or strongly hinted). I'm still looking for my village.
6. Better to stay in a low-stress, easy and/or stable job than to follow your career ambitions. Keep your commute to work/daycare as short as possible because it can be a huge time suck each day (I wasted too much time on the road for the first 3 years. I should have used a neighborhood in-home daycare.)
7. Turn off/hide your TV, PC, ipad etc. and avoid social media unless you want to post some cute pictures... HUGE time sink (obviously, it's after 1 AM and here I am despite the dirty dishes piled up in the sink)

I don't think it gets easier as my son grows but actually harder and more complex with school challenges (home work, sports), personalities, friends, etc. I yearn for the easiness of the toddler years!

But, as hard as it is to raise a child as a single, working parent, I tell my self it would be a LOT harder with a needy, argumentative, abusive... partner!

Good luck![/quote]

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