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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. When we had one vegetarian in the house, we often ate “Chipotle style.” Unless picky eating is due to health concerns, I don’t know why you are catering to it.  Goal 1: stop being short order cooks.

2. Give all kids age appropriate chores. Your 9th and 6th can very much helpful with meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking. All kids can help with clean up, laundry, straightening their own stuff.

3. I don’t understand the three schools thing and assume you are not willing to budge.  But multiple pickups/drop offs that affect your work day with deplete you.

4. Do you like your weekends? Is that how you want to spend time?

5. Can your kids shift to school activities from rec league?

6. Where are the music lessons? I’m torn on this one but 2 per week is a lot when you are talkkng three kids. Are they different instruments? For 2 instruments, we kept virtual; in person for the third 3. Is it optimal? When you consider the convenience, it is actually :)

Basically I think you are doing too much and that’s why you are tired. When kids have more than 1 kid, each kid doesn’t get catered to for everything. But between school, meals, sports, music, that’s what you are doing.[/quote]

Would die for school sport options, but not available for many sports and the ones we tried were cut sports and didn’t make it.

Music is private lesson and orchestra practice — neither can be virtual. We tried combining them sequentially but then you have a teen sitting around for an hour waiting for their sibling which seemed worse (and I was waiting 2 hours).  It’s a 15 minute drive so 30 round trip.

How long are peoples practices that they can workout then? Sure I go for walks or run errands, but a 50 minute practice is not enough time to get to gym.

Time is too fragmented with 3 kids. Agreed. But it’s where we are at.

Not really complaining, my spouse just is saying what are we doing wrong that “other family” with three kids seem to have it all happening, have tons of energy, and career success for both parents. [/quote]

A teen should bring homework and a book and wait for their younger sibling. You are letting weird guilt get in the way. Younger siblings wait for older ones all the time. Does the teen have a phone? Really, problem solved at that point. They have friends to catch up with.

For the 50 minutes, I walk. I’m 49 and have shifted to watching my diet, weight lifting, and getting a ton of steps. You can get a decent number of steps in 50 minutes even if you are just pacing the halls.

If your wife is saying you guys are doing something “wrong,” isn’t that a complaint? A statement that things feel too much? I’ve never met anyone who was satisfied with the status quo who said they were doing things wrong.[/quote]

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