I’m not necessarily enjoying it but as an introvert this is fabulous. No stupid play dates awkwardly trying to make
conversation with parents you’d never be friends with if your kids weren’t friends. No having to get up at 6am to get ready for the day (we now get up between 9-10am). No rushing to a myriad of activities and no feelings of guilt about not doing said activities because no one is doing them. The lack of open stores and restaurants mean we aren’t spending as much money and we are all enjoying cooking together as a family. We have gotten much closer with our neighbors and message each other about groceries but otherwise don’t engage in small talk. If we could put in a pool in the backyard, I’d never leave my house this summer. Kids seem happier and love spending all of this time with us, it’s awesome.

If your are enjoying this - do you not worried about your children’s education? Do you not work? Have families with small businesses to worry about? Having to go to the grocery store paranoid about catching covid. I dunno.. Im clearly not enjoying this..

Other than worrying about losing income and the possibility of extended economic depression, I like spending more time with my kids and having more time to run the house. So I'm trying to see both the good and bad. I'm really hoping the indicators that many more Americans have already had this moves us all closer to herd immunity so we can try and salvage things soon.

I know this is an older post, but I'm wondering how all the people thinking the enjoyed this are feeling now.

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Anonymous wrote:NO. I loved our lives the way the were.

+1. Clearly there are a lot of posters who were unhappy with their lives and relationships with their children. I’m not one of them. I want everything to go back the way it was before.

+1

I feel sorry for OP and others who think this is better. I spent tons of time with my kids before, and so did my husband. We ate meals together except for lunch during the week. We bikes together. Played games together. All of that stuff. It’s not that having my kids home all day is worse. I love them. But our life before was awesome and this terrible place is not. We are fine but so many people aren’t. And we all miss our friends. Who doesn’t? Seriously? What kind of life did you lead before that this is better? I pity you having to return to that.

OP here. Lol where did I say I disliked my life before? All I’m saying is, I like not being tethered to the school schedule. We go to bed later and wake up later according to our natural inclination, not the school bell. My H doesn’t have to commute and we can spend time with him during the day.

Of course we all miss our friends and family but we do lots of video calls and we are SD with our neighbors so kids can still play together.

Obvi I feel bad for medical workers and the sick. That goes without saying or should anyway. We all feel bad for them. Only a total sociopath wouldn’t.

I’ll be happy when this is over but I’ll miss being able to sleep until 9 or 10 every day.

Ah, so you're not actually changing much other than your kids not going to school. No wonder you're having a blast. You realize you're an idiot, right?

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Anonymous wrote:NO. I loved our lives the way the were.

+1. Clearly there are a lot of posters who were unhappy with their lives and relationships with their children. I’m not one of them. I want everything to go back the way it was before.

+1

I feel sorry for OP and others who think this is better. I spent tons of time with my kids before, and so did my husband. We ate meals together except for lunch during the week. We bikes together. Played games together. All of that stuff. It’s not that having my kids home all day is worse. I love them. But our life before was awesome and this terrible place is not. We are fine but so many people aren’t. And we all miss our friends. Who doesn’t? Seriously? What kind of life did you lead before that this is better? I pity you having to return to that.

OP here. Lol where did I say I disliked my life before? All I’m saying is, I like not being tethered to the school schedule. We go to bed later and wake up later according to our natural inclination, not the school bell. My H doesn’t have to commute and we can spend time with him during the day.

Of course we all miss our friends and family but we do lots of video calls and we are SD with our neighbors so kids can still play together.

Obvi I feel bad for medical workers and the sick. That goes without saying or should anyway. We all feel bad for them. Only a total sociopath wouldn’t.

I’ll be happy when this is over but I’ll miss being able to sleep until 9 or 10 every day.

Good lord, OP, you're sleeping until 9 or 10? Who does that? How lazy are you? You sound ridiculous. And you're "SD with your neighbors?"?? That is... not a thing. You're not social distancing. You're having a childish break from reality. GTFO here.

NP here. I've been sleeping til noon or 1:00. What's it to you? It's precisely because this is my natural body clock that I am living my best life now.

. Do you have kids? What are they doing? Many of us have kids, jobs we are doing at home, and out doing school work with multiple children. Waking up after lunch would be ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:NO. I loved our lives the way the were.

+1. Clearly there are a lot of posters who were unhappy with their lives and relationships with their children. I’m not one of them. I want everything to go back the way it was before.

+1

I feel sorry for OP and others who think this is better. I spent tons of time with my kids before, and so did my husband. We ate meals together except for lunch during the week. We bikes together. Played games together. All of that stuff. It’s not that having my kids home all day is worse. I love them. But our life before was awesome and this terrible place is not. We are fine but so many people aren’t. And we all miss our friends. Who doesn’t? Seriously? What kind of life did you lead before that this is better? I pity you having to return to that.

OP here. Lol where did I say I disliked my life before? All I’m saying is, I like not being tethered to the school schedule. We go to bed later and wake up later according to our natural inclination, not the school bell. My H doesn’t have to commute and we can spend time with him during the day.

Of course we all miss our friends and family but we do lots of video calls and we are SD with our neighbors so kids can still play together.

Obvi I feel bad for medical workers and the sick. That goes without saying or should anyway. We all feel bad for them. Only a total sociopath wouldn’t.

I’ll be happy when this is over but I’ll miss being able to sleep until 9 or 10 every day.

Good lord, OP, you're sleeping until 9 or 10? Who does that? How lazy are you? You sound ridiculous. And you're "SD with your neighbors?"?? That is... not a thing. You're not social distancing. You're having a childish break from reality. GTFO here.

NP here. I've been sleeping til noon or 1:00. What's it to you? It's precisely because this is my natural body clock that I am living my best life now.

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a child, OP.

Especially by saying you "obvi" "feel bad" for "medical workers and the sick." Are you 17?

Um, all SAHMs on here being oh so excited - you do realize that law firms etc have started lay offs and salary reductions? Even the big ones. I wouln't get too thrilled. This is bad news for all of us. All of us. As a society. And I don't ant the usual total fool trolls coming on here about how they saved millions of dollars up before they stayed home and sacrificed their enormously important and lucrative job because they love their kids so - that's crap and if its true you are a total outlier. Almost all actual people I know in this area need the jobs they have, big time. Many many people are going to be negatively impacted here, I am sure some of them just adoring their little mini vaca.

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Anonymous wrote:NO. I loved our lives the way the were.

+1. Clearly there are a lot of posters who were unhappy with their lives and relationships with their children. I’m not one of them. I want everything to go back the way it was before.

+1

I feel sorry for OP and others who think this is better. I spent tons of time with my kids before, and so did my husband. We ate meals together except for lunch during the week. We bikes together. Played games together. All of that stuff. It’s not that having my kids home all day is worse. I love them. But our life before was awesome and this terrible place is not. We are fine but so many people aren’t. And we all miss our friends. Who doesn’t? Seriously? What kind of life did you lead before that this is better? I pity you having to return to that.

OP here. Lol where did I say I disliked my life before? All I’m saying is, I like not being tethered to the school schedule. We go to bed later and wake up later according to our natural inclination, not the school bell. My H doesn’t have to commute and we can spend time with him during the day.

Of course we all miss our friends and family but we do lots of video calls and we are SD with our neighbors so kids can still play together.

Obvi I feel bad for medical workers and the sick. That goes without saying or should anyway. We all feel bad for them. Only a total sociopath wouldn’t.

I’ll be happy when this is over but I’ll miss being able to sleep until 9 or 10 every day.

Good lord, OP, you're sleeping until 9 or 10? Who does that? How lazy are you? You sound ridiculous. And you're "SD with your neighbors?"?? That is... not a thing. You're not social distancing. You're having a childish break from reality. GTFO here.

You sound like a child, OP.

Anonymous wrote:total staycation for us! loving it. while acknowledging others are suffering. I can still be joyful and enjoy my own life while having compassion for others.

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Anonymous wrote:NO. I loved our lives the way the were.

+1. Clearly there are a lot of posters who were unhappy with their lives and relationships with their children. I’m not one of them. I want everything to go back the way it was before.

+1

I feel sorry for OP and others who think this is better. I spent tons of time with my kids before, and so did my husband. We ate meals together except for lunch during the week. We bikes together. Played games together. All of that stuff. It’s not that having my kids home all day is worse. I love them. But our life before was awesome and this terrible place is not. We are fine but so many people aren’t. And we all miss our friends. Who doesn’t? Seriously? What kind of life did you lead before that this is better? I pity you having to return to that.

OP here. Lol where did I say I disliked my life before? All I’m saying is, I like not being tethered to the school schedule. We go to bed later and wake up later according to our natural inclination, not the school bell. My H doesn’t have to commute and we can spend time with him during the day.

Of course we all miss our friends and family but we do lots of video calls and we are SD with our neighbors so kids can still play together.

Obvi I feel bad for medical workers and the sick. That goes without saying or should anyway. We all feel bad for them. Only a total sociopath wouldn’t.

I’ll be happy when this is over but I’ll miss being able to sleep until 9 or 10 every day.

I dislike nearly everything about this, but i don't outright hate it as much as I thought I would. I miss my friends, my coworkers, my gym and my activities but I'm making new routines with my daughter and doing more yardwork, so I guess it's not 100% terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:No I HATE this. And I hate SAHM's like you that can't wrap their head around how HARD this is for a minute. We are lucky that we both have our jobs and the ability to work from home. But we are doing so with a 4 year old at home and it is nearly impossible to work. I'm up early and late to make up for what I can't get done. It's exhausting and isolating. I miss my family, friends and co-workers.

A SAHM mom I know posted some post about how hard it is to do all 3 - parent, teach and work - at the same time. Bitch please... she has no job, her kids are under 5 and previously only went to mother's day out so no real teaching to do. Her biggest change is that her husband is working from home and it's really rocked their world. So extremely irritating.

It’s hard to have three kids under five at home under any circumstances. It’s probably a lot harder now that many activities are canceled. You don’t know that because you have never had a job raising children full time, beyond the four or so months of maternity leave you took. Of course this is harder for those who have to work, but it’s hard for everyone. Are you a health care worker in a hospital? Then someone has it harder than you. You have ONE four month old child at home who has zero need for socialization with other kids. There are people who have it harder than you. So stop castigating others. Even if this was the misery Olympics, you’d lose by a mile.

You really struggle with reading comprehension. The SAHM I referenced has 2 kids, not 3. I have a 4 YEAR OLD not 4 month old. Having a 4 YEAR OLD at home while I'm on the phone all day basically ignoring her sucks. At least the SAHM can pay attention to her kids. Meanwhile I get to tell mine to be quiet and stick her in front of a TV so I can have god awful conference calls.

Oh and BTW I raise my kid full time even though I work.

Oh I’m sorry you have ONE four year old child. There are still many folks who have it harder than you, so why are you castigating people? You obviously have plenty of time to be on DCUM so it can’t be THAT hard for you. Also you don’t raise your kid full time on normal days. You have someone doing it for you. You are currently raising your child full time. That is why it is more difficult for you. You can’t have it both ways dummy.

Truth. Being a weekend parent is so much different than a SAH parent all week.

I really enjoy how stay at home moms justify their choice to not work by bashing women who don't make the same decision. You can do better. Especially in a time like this. Please stop, I'm so embarrassed for you. Don't you have anything better to do than to insult people who are having a really rough go of it?

+1000

Also, newsflash SAHM, working moms actually parent during the week as well. I don't know anyone who is a "weekend" parent.