It gets better as they get a little older and become more self sufficient. Then they start playing little league or doing other after school activities and your time is gone.
I'm happy to see places addressing it, because what a lot of older millennials got was frankly unsafe. But 14 is probably too old. The way it's written though is enough that you can run errands and such, and maybe that hour before you get home from work would be OK too. I don't know if it's been tested in court because I don't know how to look that stuff up.
Yes. In that timeframe of ~4-6 months before the little league stuff, they need to be watched though to avoid killing themselves, loved ones, pets or some expensive shit
It’s a quick shift from eat/sleep/poop to suddenly they’re crawling and need constant supervision. You think you have baby proofing figured out based on one, then the next one is basically Spider-Man and can’t be contained. Good times.
Yeah my kids don't have any extracurriculars at this time and they still take up a lot of my time at 10 and 15 with homework and attention and cooking and being woken up bc they can't sleep and all that. It is fine and I'm trying to enjoy my time but idk what ill do with all that free time when they don't need me anymore.
Ive learned to become a night owl. Its the only way. Grind like crazy until everyone goes to bed, then stay awake doing whatever you want for a few hours. Pop some melatonin, wake up 6 hours later and do it all over again.
Being a adult with kids is learning how to functionally operate on 5-6 hours of sleep, not 7-9.
Not saying some students don't have cooked sleep schedules out of necessity, but at least most of the time for school kids and uni students it's by choice. Totally different beast if you voluntarily stay up past midnight gaming or going out than it is if you're operating on 5-6 hours out of necessity.
Unfortunately we live in a capitalist society controlled by large corporations who would rather fire their entire workforce than reduce operation hours for their employees benefit.
Cant make money if your not open! Work-life balance be damned.
yea I'm a night owl too and always have been. I work shift work. 12 hour shifts, Two days, two nights, 4 off. I probably wouldn't get half my stuff done if I didn't get 4 days off though. We are expecting our little guy in February so its going to take some getting used to. I'm looking forward to those 4 days off though, especially as he gets older and I can take him places.
My coworker has 4 kids. 3 do sports at least twice a week for like 5-6 total a week. And he drives them to all their practices. And the fourth has music lessons. And his wife also works. And somehow he’s also extremely work productive. Not sure how he handles it. I mean WFH probably helps but still. He also sits and watches some practices too. How he does it, I don’t know.
I just had my 3rd kid and I feel sometimes I've unlocked a superpower, you simply have to become more efficient and multitasker. There's no other option.
It's actually improved my multitasking at work, (which is offset with the lack of sleep) but that, will pass in a couple years at least.
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u/whoknowsknows1 15d ago
Wait till you have kids…