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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who find this relaxing - how old are your kids? Do you work? [/quote]

No kids, but work a lot. Several nights from 830am to 730pm and 930pm to 1am. Definitely less stressful putting in those hours without a commute.[/quote]

I need obviously makes sense in your case. [b]But for the vast majority of us it is brutal and we have our kids’ sanity to consider as well[/b].[/quote]

If your used to working from home without kids then yes this brutal, but in my circle, I know people who were never able to work from home before this, and everyone is saying how great it is,  we all have school aged kids ranging from K- HS. I honestly think a lot of it is the break from our kids extracurricular activities. Working full time out of the house and coming home to cleaning, making dinner, and shuffling kids around is so exhausting. [/quote]

The only people I know who are not significantly struggling with this have older kids who are much more self-sufficient in terms of school work etc. Elementary and under is extremely difficult unless your job is not very challenging or you put your kids in front of the TV all day.[/quote]

+1 I am generally happy under quarantine.  I do work full time but not a high-pressure, deadline driven job.  DH is a bit more stressed with his job but he already worked at home 4 days a week so it's really not a change for him.  Our kids are in 9th and 11th grades and really self-sufficient and getting more so.  They are expanding their cooking skills, helping clean the house without much complaint (we'd had a cleaning service since they were little), and 16 yr old DS shocked me the other day by noticing that the kitchen floor was dirty and actually getting out the vacuum and taking care of it with no comment.

I'm sad to miss planned travel and that this is throwing a wrench into DS's college planning and activities both kids have looked forward to but, big picture, our life is fine.

I agree with OP's comment that it just doesn't feel like you can say that to friends while complaining on and on about it is socially acceptable.  It's like when my kids were babies and I loved the baby stage and had babies that slept well.  I just didn't have much I could add to a new moms' conversation since it only seemed OK to complain.[/quote]

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