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Plus you need to monitor their school work somewhat, which is really challenging, and make a lot of decisions about other issues — how down is depressed and you need to find a therapist?  Are these grades bad enough you need to think about a tutor?  Or maybe there’s an online program that will help them understand algebra 2 because God knows I’ve forgotten it.  It takes more time to shop for them because they all have their own odd preferences.  Etc. etc.  Thank God my husband has sort of an atypical firm life and can leave early regularly to help manage the sports stuff.   It would be physically impossible for me to do it all.  And the older they get the less likely you can carpool because while little kids just do activities with their friends, tweens and teens are unlikely to make the same teams or whatever that their friends do, and the other kids in the activities may not live anywhere near you.

Im saying all this because when I was your age I was focused on the slog of parenting babies and what I could handle at 35.  I was not at all thinking about how exhausted I’d be at 50 with all the work that these kids generate.  Teens generate way more laundry than babies because they sweat like Teamsters and there’s all the workout clothes, multiple towels for showers, etc.  And they eat so much!  And who is going to stay up to pick them up at parties that end at 11 or 12?  
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I have always been low energy and I had my one and only at 41. Now that I'm in my 50s with a high schooler, I can't imagine having to manage two kids. Even with my husband's help with cooking and sports, its overwhelming. High school assignments, after school activities, pick up/drop off at events, sleepovers, travel sports, rec sports, etc.[/quote]

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