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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are the kids?[/quote]
6 and 8. 8yo is more self sufficient but still needs help. It’s more about the schedule and there only being so many hours in the evening, and not knowing what to do when. [/quote]

Are there afternoon activities? By those ages my kids had sports after school many nights a week.

You know how much sleep your kids need and if it makes sense to have dinner later in the evening or not. I do think you’re overthinking this. Having both parents home by 5 and nothing in the evenings isn’t the norm with people I know. [/quote]

If I were in the situation as OP I would deliberately not be scheduling a lot of weeknight activities because it would be too much to do solo- at 6yo my kids would not have handled both being in multiple weeknight activities AND being dragged to sibling's activities on the other evenings.  We were very much in divide-and-conquer mode at those ages and 1-2 nights of activities each was plenty.[/quote]

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