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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to take this opportunity to encourage you all to stop hiding and just tell your kids that you are going to your room for some private time.  They can learn, at any age, that parents have to right to take time for themselves (assuming someone else is there to supervise them of course).  Now is the time to normalize this idea.[/quote]

I did this with my third kid, who is the chattiest human being I have ever met.  When he was in preschool, he would draw pictures in a notebook and ask the teachers to fill in the captions because he didn't yet know how to write.  We saw the notebooks only at the end of the year.  In addition to a lot of cute animal drawings and super-hero stories, there was a whole series of a person-looking blob with captions along the line of "This is my mommy waving good bye over her shoulder as she goes to her room for Quiet Time."  and "This is my mommy peeking out her bedroom door to see if anyone is in the hall. I am sitting on the floor by her door waiting for Quiet Time to be over."  It was pretty embarrassing.[/quote]

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