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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My boys are 5 and almost 3 and extremely wild.

What I’ve found is 2 things:

1. It straight up does not work for me to be alone with both of them. They get manic and competitive and hang on me and both talk to me simultaneously and I am unable to handle it. I don’t allow myself to be put in that situation, which basically means that I have to be extremely aggressive with DH-otherwise he will check out or disappear into the bathroom or garage or zone out on his phone. NOPE. I refuse to do this alone.

2. I do enjoy my children one on one, so I seek out time with each of them individually and avoid ever being alone with both at once.

3. We hired a weekend nanny. She comes from 4-8 PM on Saturday and 8-1 on Sunday, so I get a break.

Having a job helps. Small doses helps. Avoiding time alone with both of them at the same time helps.

It’s still much harder than I thought and while I’m obsessed with my 2 yo, I think I would have done better as a mom of 1.[/quote]

Also I don’t really play with my kids. Sometimes we play board games or bake together, but not often. I enjoy swimming, biking, walking with them sometimes, or outings like to the pumpkin patch. Sometimes reading books together is ok.

I HATE HATE HATE going to the park with them, or doing pretend play, or getting on the floor and doing trucks or whatever. I never do those things.

We outsource a lot. [/quote]

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