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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just like you. It’s okay. You’re in an exhausting stage of life and most parents are in the same boat with very young children. It was just kids, work, kids, household tasks and then pass out from exhaustion.

Fast forward to all my kids being school age…6, 9 & 12. I up at 5 am to swim laps 2-3 x a week, yoga also a few times a week, decided to learn a new instrument.

You will eventually hit your stride with parenting, have older and more independent children, and sleep better without night time wake ups, and night time potty training. It will eventually happen for you. [/quote]

It really does not get better. I think ages 0-5 are the easiest years. My kids are 11 and 14–almost 12 and 15. It is harder than the years before school started. School stuff, activities, social plans with their friends—it never ends. Exhausted is an understatement. [/quote]

Yes! I could have written this. Today I drove one kid to camp, one to an orthodontist appointment and dropped off the third to the mall because they wanted to go see a movie with their friends. All while trying to manage a full time WFH job. Needless to say I gave my husband a hard time when he came home from work because I am exhausted! [/quote]

Look, I know that different things are hard for different people, and I can understand that some people may find the emotional and logistical labor of teens stressful. Plus, you're obviously older when you have teens than you were when you had babies and toddlers. But you took a max of three car trips and did work at a computer, all of which are... just sitting there. To compare that to chasing a 2 and 3 year old around or getting up four times a night with an infant and say that this is more exhausting is absurd.  [/quote]

The constant interruptions throughout the workday are no doubt tiring, but at least you don't have to break up fights between your kids or constantly check to make sure they haven't injured themselves or drawn on the walls... I'd tell the older ones that you just can't take them to the mall during the day because you have to work, and their options are to watch a movie at home or go to the theater on the weekend. My mom never took me to the movies during the day, and she was a SAHM. The ortho visit is a little harder to handle, but my dentist offers weekend hours and we always schedule our appointments for weekends so they don't disrupt our workdays. [/quote]

And you pretend to work at home. [/quote]

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