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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure why everyone is saying stick with one. I am a introverted SAHM, but when we had two my husband worked in big law. One kid was much more draining with one than two as a sahm. With two there was a playmate, to distract, but still one bath, one dinner to prepare, one hour at the playground, one hour book time.  Even now when they are older, I still find it easier. I don’t have to do every puzzle, board game, etc with just the one. Easier for the introvert in me I think

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Same, I am also an introvert and I have days where I want to drop them off somewhere so I can have some piece and quiet, but it's so much easier now that they're older and have each other to play with. It was hard while they were young, but I had them three years apart, so the older one was a little more self sufficient when the younger was a baby. The age difference helped a lot. Now that they're older, they will play together for hours, whereas my friends who have onlies are either constantly forced to play with their kid, constantly driving them to one activity or the next, or constantly setting up playdates. That seems like a lot of work, too.[/quote]

I dunno, my only child first grader read for a few hours today, helped me bake and make dinner, then “played” with the Christmas tree by turning the ornaments into pretend play characters and rearranging the tree. Typical day and was pretty much zero stress and I had time to nap and read a book too. We perhaps do more stuff because we can, not because we “have” to. Like all kids, fill their buckets and then give them unstructured time to learn how to function without a ton of stimuli. My kid has school and activities, that’s plenty of time to play and I wouldn’t trade the self sufficiency she’s developed for anything. I wish I had it as an adult![/quote]

I have seen other only children behave similarly. It seems dreamy to me (a mom of 2 boys, 2 years apart).[/quote]

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