Posts by brett1970

I think its funny how opposite my kids are. My 4 year old son will sleep, its hard to get him to bed and its hard to wake him up. Our 7 month old daughter however, screams when you put her down and 20 mins later screams when she wakes up. They always say if the first one is easy the second one is a bear, i don't even want to think about #3, well we are actually done after 2, we are getting a little too old to go for #3. 10 years ago we may have had 4 to 6 kids, no we wouldn't, lol.

It is amazing how much less time you have to get things done when you have a new born on your hands. in my case my wife doesn't get home till around 7pm and even after she gets home I'm still doing most of the parenting, she needs time to change and wind down, I understand that but it prevents me from winding down some days. and then with two of them we take one a piece to get them ready for bed, I don't get to tend to myself till 9 or 10 pm most nights and by that time I'm way too tired to work out anymore. And being this exhausted its impossible for me to get up at 5 or 6 to exercise.

I also don't get much time to work on the house or do house work and then my wonderful understanding wife gets on me because things don't get done and when we talk about those kid of things it almost always turns into an argument.

I understand we both feel pressure, I know her career is demanding of her and exhausts her both physically and mentally, my career exhausts me mentally, the kids exhaust me physically but i don't think she understands that completely.

And I want to hear from everyone, it would be nice to find some comradery with some stay at home - work at home dads, see how they deal with it.