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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have four kids and two high stress jobs. For us, the key is having school, day care, work, activities all close to home and truly partnering together to juggle things. [b]We keep our weekends and evenings as simple as possible.  Our kids have early bed times and we can finish work and hang out with each other after 8 pm.[/b] [/quote]

How old are your kids? This could work til they're about 7-8 but after that for most families the weekends will be packed w/ activities and play dates and bday parties etc. and the kids won't go to bed at 8pm forever.[/quote]

No is a complete sentence. I have older kids (late tween and Teen) and we say no to birthday parties and play dates. The kids have lots of friends. You don’t have to pack weekends/ weeknights with practices and games. We value time with our kids (who love to play sports!) but they know we do one sport a kid now. One plays basketball, our DD plays golf and our youngest prefers to be involved in theater. [/quote]

You don't let your kids go to birthday parties or have any friends over? Also, I "only" have 2 kids and they "only" do one activity each but by the time kids get to middle school if they are any good at their activity, it gets pretty time consuming. There is no way for my children do their chosen activity at their level and have it be less time consuming than it is. [/quote]

I guess I’m lucky my children are unremarkable. [/quote]

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