When I was single the weekends seemed quite long. I would sleep half of the Saturday, watch some TV shows, clean a bit and sometimes visit some friends. And Sunday evening I would play bass in my metal band. Nice and easy.
But now that I have a family and small children there is never time to do anything. The kids always need something, food, diper, entertainment, make them sleep, clean up. Wash the dishes, wash the clothes etc. Once we’re done with them it’s 9pm, we try to watch a movie and my partner falls asleep of exhaustion within 20 minutes. I try do watch it to the end so I can tell her the summary in the morning.
It’s totally regarding to have kids but I wish the weekend was one day longer.
I say we should add Monday to the weekend and then also have a mid-week break with Wednesday and Thursday off.
PSA: having children is not mandatory
I work a highly variable schedule that usually sits around either 3-4 days on and 3-4 days off. 3 days off is okay but a little too short to really relax. 4 days is perfect. Anything over 7 days off and I start getting bored of not working.
I worked 6/7 days of the week for over 10 hours X day at times for almost 4 years. With something like 21 days of holidays X year. I dunno what to tell you except you’re lucky.
And I still live with my mother btw.
There’s enslaved people working 12 hours a day 7 days a week all over the world under the threat of death. I dunno what to tell you except you’re lucky.
Do you feel better now? No? Then you must see why that’s a shitty thing to say. No need to one-up someone’s struggle
You just missed the point completely. And enslaved people is a completely different issue so no, your comments make no sense.
Find stuff to do that you can do with the children that you genuinely enjoy doing and not just bc the kids like it. I for example started getting good tools to build advanced sand castles. I enjoy doing it I have more possibilities because of the better tools and the kids live it as well.