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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s interesting how deep intensive parenting Stockholm Syndrome is when parents would rather advocate faking it than questioning the tenets of intensive parenting. Or advocate for only a select few to have children. I mean, really?

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I agree.

Why can’t anyone have an adult conversation or have periods of time without interruption?  The OP’s kids are 7 and 2.  Make sure they are safe and go talk to your spouse for twenty minutes.  You don’t have to be interacting with them all of the time.  [/quote]
absolutely, but I don't think he would be happy with "20min/day uninterrupted time".

Also, at that stage, kids should be in bed by 8.  Do the parents go to bed at 8:30 or something? Why can't they have 8 to 10 as "their time"?  That's what DH and I did, but if we were having a serious conversation during the day, and kids interrupted, we would tell them to "hold on till we are done".

But it doesn't sound like this is the issue. Seems like in general, he doesn't like that two kids = more work.

Someone once told me that having two kids is more than double the work because with one kid, you can trade off and the parent can get some downtime, and parenting one kid is easy.  Trying to parent two kids is a lot harder, and you feel outnumbered.[/quote]

I am confused by this as well. How late are the kids up? I have a feeling that OP is the kind of parent who has no boundaries for her kids and that this is part of the problem. [/quote]

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