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[quote=Anonymous]Another husband here.

Other than a couple times a month when I'm stuck working late, I do teeth & PJs, then read to (or with) the older kids.

DW reads to the youngest.

I'm nearly always the heavy if the kids, who share rooms, want to fight or play with each other when it's lights out. On the bright side, I'm also nearly always the lullabier and rocker. DW is a SAHM, so she has more than enough time during the day.

The process of calmly informing the children to stop playing and brush their teeth and get ready for bed, did you hear me, I said STOP PLAYING and BRUSH YOUR TEETH and did you check the kitchen for your teddy bear? Put down the book and put on your PJs and have you checked your bed? I bet the bear is there. No, I said PUT YOUR BOOK DOWN, yes, I know your brother is annoying but you need to give him back his tooth brush and where did you have the bear last? [snatches book] You can have it back in the morning! Go help your sister find her bear, and didn't I tell you to put your PJs on & etc? usually occupies from fifteen to twenty minutes, starting a bit after the seldom achieved target time of 7:30. Then we read until a little after 8:30PM, and lights out. Songs, then, or rocking with the kids while trying to pry information about their school day out of them, or for the last week, reading about the time when, by shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big sea water, stood the wigwam of Nokomis, daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, rose the firs with cones upon them... [/quote]

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