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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think almost everyone is missing the point here - yes it is like this OP. It is hectic and hard. Especially with no family to help. You can make some things easier but it’s always a juggle at this stage. A housekeeper or dog walker does not fundamentally change the fact that you have a lot of responsibilities. It is particularly hard if you both have demanding jobs. Flexible jobs are worth their weight in gold at this phase but you still only have so many hours in a day.[/quote]

This. I think part of what’s hard is that I expected for some reason that things would get easier after the baby stage (dumb, I know).

My kids are also 4 and 7, both boys, and the last 3 years of my life have been the absolute hardest. I can only handle one hour or one day at a time. I don’t know when it gets easier.[/quote]

I think it got easier for me when mine were 8 and 9.  Every stage has different challenges.  It never got easy for me but it did get different and the challenges morphed into other challenges that at least I was fresh to dealing with.

The baby stage, you lose sleep and your back hurts and everything hurts, but there’s day care or the nanny.

They get older and there’s school with random holidays (and bullies), and you have to sort out afterschool pickup and care.  They get still older and you’re worried about random predators on Roblox but all their friends play and they get left out if you don’t let them.  You become a taxi to endless birthday parties and sports and orthodontist appointments.  Etc.

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