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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand this unless you are going to homeschool.

My kids are gone at 7am, school all day, after school activities and home at 6 or 7 or 8. They have maybe an hour before they are doing homework.

A child having a mental health breakdown is not a teen-ternity that is sick leave or time off for medical reasons.[/quote]

I think to me I feel super burned out with [b]work and then parenting (doing a million things after work every day).[/b] I can't very well give up on the parenting part. So I fantasize about quitting the work part. It would be nice to just have one source of stress in my life. I never felt this burned out when my kids were young, but I was also younger and Obama was president lol. [/quote]

That is it, summed up. A full time job + commute + second shift is already too much. Add even run-of-the-mill typical teen angst and/or mini crisis, and you have full on overwhelm or disaster. It’s not that any part on its own is too much, it’s having to manage it all at once, which is why we have parents pulling back from work. [/quote]

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