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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are your kids, op? If they get up at 6:15, 9 is too late unless they are pretty old - in which case, I would recommend outsourcing some of the lunch stuff to them and not getting up with them.

My kids wake up by 6 no matter what time they go to bed. As a result, they are asleep by 7.[/quote]

Kids are 3 and 5. The little one still takes a 2 hour nap (from 1-3 pm), and sleeps from about 8:15 pm - 7:15 am everyday. She seems to need more sleep in general. The older one sleeps from 8:45 pm - 6:15.  To me it seems like not a lot of sleep, but she's always been that way.

I'll try to get them involved in chores/lunches/backpacks....this is what my MIL has always suggested. She does not get how/why I always separate housework from spending time with kids.  I guess as a WOHM who gets home at 5:30, I'm trying to devote all my home-time to just playing with them, talking with them, but it leaves me with very little time for anything else...[/quote]

I am the one who initially suggested integrating chores more.  I am also a WOHM and also get home around 5:30.  I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old.  You can do the chores and incorporate it into being with them.  I get a basket of clean laundry and we all "fold" together in my upstairs hall so I can put away laundry as I fold.  (My kids race up and down the hall, sit in the laundry basket, or fold things and do a terrible job and I re-fold after they give it to me.)  As I clean-up the kitchen, I turn on music and they do a dance party and we are all together in the kitchen/den area.  They each get a dishcloth to clean the floor under their chairs.  While I pack lunches, I move around the kitchen and talk to my oldest about his day.  I guess the point is...you can still engage with your kids while you're doing this stuff.  They just want to spend time with you.  They don't care what you're doing exactly or if you're "playing".  It sounds like you just need to multi-task a bit more.[/quote]

I think she needs to get her DH to step it up or outsource. You only have so many hours in a day. My kids tidy up their things but they are awful helpers. Their "job" is do study.[/quote]

How do you outsource cleaning up your kitchen after dinner or making lunch and breakfast for your kids?  Do you have a live-in housekeeper?

I couldn't disagree more with the approach you are describing.  Yes, their main jobs is to study.  Just like my main job is to work to make money to support our family.  It is all of our jobs to pick up after ourselves and learn how to be part of a family unit where everyone contributes.[/quote]

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