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[quote=Anonymous]Weekends from age 1 to 4ish are just exhausting! I remember being so happy for Monday morning when I could drop my kid back off at daycare! You are not alone or weird for feeling exhausted. It's hard.

For us, it worked best to divide and conquer. Our son is an early riser, so one parent would wake up with him on Saturday and the other would sleep in and wake up with him on Sunday. We also did weekend classes (music, swim, soccer, gymnastics, whatever we could find, this was pre covid) so one parent would take the child to the class mid morning and the other would have that time to themselves.  Then one parent would take him to the playground or something similar in the afternoon and the other would have that time to themselves. It was usually small blocks of solo time - one or two hours at most each day. And, whomever wasn't on kid duty was prepping dinner or doing laundry or light cleaning, so it wasn't ever a total break.

At age 6 now, weekends are way easier! We don't have to wake up with him which is a game changer to be able to sleep in a little bit each day. And, most of his activities are drop off, or he can entertain himself with a friend for most of the day, or he's content to help out with adult things like errands, cooking, even some cleaning, so we have much more control over our time.[/quote]

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