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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parents with 2+ young kids have help (either family members or they hire someone to help with afternoon/evening routines). It makes life so much easier to have someone else helping with kids![/quote]

I really don't think this is the norm.

Most parents trudge through it alone, doing the best they can.  Some nights are very tough.  OP just needs to keep tweaking the routine until she finds what works for her.[/quote]

Seriously...in what world do you live?[/quote]

I guess that I think it’s the norm too.  Most people have two parents at home in the evenings, some extended family nearby, OR they hire some help.  People going solo with 2+ kids every evening happens, but it isn’t the norm.  [/quote]

NP, and I think it's the norm for many families, particularly those in which one parent (usually the wife) stays home and the other parent (usually the husband) works.

We have three, all two years apart, and the norm is that both of us are home at a reasonable hour and we handle dinner/clean-up/bedtime together, albeit not always in that order and not always divided evenly.  We both pitch in and make it work.[/quote]

I'm 9:46 and I guess I can't speak to it being the norm, but I WOH and my DH works long hours and is rarely home before 7:30. He's often not home before bedtime at all. I have always handled everything upon arriving home, and worked hard to get us into a good routine. It definitely entails leaving the older kid(s) on their own for brief periods, trudging through some fussing, and leaving cleanup until later that night. [/quote]

I'm the PP whose DH is often working on house projects (that we both agree on and that I definitely can't do) in the evenings. I SAH part-time, but our evenings look similar after dinner, though I do have the benefit of having the SAH days for dinner prep. I'd especially emphasize that clean-up happens after bedtime. So does packing big kid/adult lunches for the next day. I hate that part of things, because it prevents collapsing on the couch at 8:30, but I haven't found another workable way.[/quote]

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