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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who are you all with high schoolers and no free time on your hands?  My kid leaves for school at 7:50 AM, get home from practice at 6 PM, dinner with the family, and then 2-3 hours of homework every night. Weekends are spent with friends, volunteering or working. I feel like I never see my kids. [/quote]

PP here - and to be clear, I mean no free time because you are parenting, not because you fill your day with volunteering, exercising, etc. I feel like cooking, emotional support and attending sport games is my primary form of parenting, and none of it is terribly time consuming (which is awesome as a working mom!) [/quote]

I am not sure who you are responding to (not sure which parent of high schoolers have no free time because they are too busy parenting?), but for me, being a parent of kids in school (they are in elementary and middle) isn't actually that much different from parenting kids who aren't in school. Most of what I do as a stay at home parenting isn't intensive time with my kids (though a good chunk of it is). I do things so that we don't have to outsource and we don't have to do them on the weekends or after school. So I'm getting our tires rotated, going to my own medical appointments, deep cleaning the floors, etc. All the same things people with jobs do but during the 9 months school is in session, I do them during the school day, and after school is hang out time with the kids. Of course I do have more free time (which I'm using to try to get a job), but having the kids in school is honestly not freeing up my time as much as I thought it would.

I am curious how it will be when my kids are in high school. I don't think they will be as busy as yours are since they aren't into school sports.[/quote]

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