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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure the answer to this, but can you shower and brush your hair during your lunch hour while the nanny is there? Saturday and Sunday might be a miserable mess, but you’d have time to “yourself” 5 days per week.[/quote]

Op here. I am able to get a little time a couple days of the week but not everyday. Our nanny works 8-5 and not a minute more, which is unfortunately exactly the hours I need to be present at work. I usually have to work through lunch but sometimes manage to take a shower or do some laundry or hit the grocery store. [/quote]

Does your husband/partner ever have the kids so you can have a break?[/quote]

No.[/quote]

Was that OP who responded no? Why doesn't your husband ever have the kids?[/quote]

DP. I prioritized making weekends family time, so my boys could have time with dad. Dad left for work before school and got home after bed time. Still does a decade later. On weekends he sometime engages with them if it involves baseball or watching TV while eating g dinner. It was a mistake to try to schedule things so he could do things with the kids because because he rarely does. On weekends he has church (4-6 hours including travel time), work and chilling out in his office. He cuts the grass every week or two. It’s sad and the kids have a friendly but distant relationship with him. I resent him for this.

The boys are pretty chill. I don’t see them anything like how parents stereotype sons. They are active and play sports. I’ve coached them sometimes, and they and their teammates are not any more crazy than girls I coached pre-kids of my own. I don’t see so much of behavior/energy divide as much people like to claim. What I do see sometimes among SOME parents is a higher toleration for mischief and amped behavior for their sons.

Op I think things settled down when my kids were high potty trained. They are a year and half apart. [/quote]

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