It's very hard. I've picked up playing MOBAs where I can play 30-60 minutes at a time and feel satisfied with my time played.
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Joeboo
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My 3 year old has an 8pm bed time that he's never had issues with, at least with me.
My 10 year old (if he has no school the next day) can stay up till 10:30 and lay in bed and read until 11:30-12 if he wants.
My 7 year old can sleep anywhere, anytime so she just falls asleep on her around at 9 with no prompting.
My 10 year old (if he has no school the next day) can stay up till 10:30 and lay in bed and read until 11:30-12 if he wants.
My 7 year old can sleep anywhere, anytime so she just falls asleep on her around at 9 with no prompting.
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Gaming gets easier with more kids tbh, although sleep gets worse. Mine are 6, 4 and 19 months and they play together a lot, allowing me a lot more gaming time. Sleep... well I think you just need to learn to operate on less as a parent. Six hours is a good night for me and while I am always tired, I'm used to it.
My husband manages to get at least 8 every night though and I am super jealous. I'm already back from putting the middle one on the bus and walking the older one to school before he wakes up. Scumbag husband.
My husband manages to get at least 8 every night though and I am super jealous. I'm already back from putting the middle one on the bus and walking the older one to school before he wakes up. Scumbag husband.
I hate my little pony on netflix. I get tired of even hearing about it. Then to find out what a browny is.....
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My Little Pony and now Frozen are the two flavors of the month for my daughter. She's like me in a sense, she'll get engrossed in a topic/character for a period of time as much as you possibly can, and then 6 months down the road it's dead to her. She's done that her whole life, whether that be Tinkerbell, Scooby Doo, Strawberry Shortcake, etc.
As for gaming, it does get easier as they get older although my time is still limited due to schedule/work. I average about an hour or two during the week. Once they hit the magical age of say 5, where they can entertain themselves for long stretches, it opens up alot of time.
As for gaming, it does get easier as they get older although my time is still limited due to schedule/work. I average about an hour or two during the week. Once they hit the magical age of say 5, where they can entertain themselves for long stretches, it opens up alot of time.
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My girls have been deep into My Little Pony for like a year now. And Frozen is, of course, the new hotness. Honestly, I don't mind My Little Pony, for a kids cartoon it is pretty good. I had to make them stop watching Thundercats because they were acting out the fight scenes.
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Thanks for all the gaming feedback. It has been getting better got almost an hour every night. And a little more on the weekend. Im off work for the next two weeks alone with my baby so ill see if i can get some time in while he naps too. As for cartoons that is one area im very glad i have a boy. I cant wait till he can enjoy tmnt and thundercats, and eventualy avatar. My wife says i have to wait till i introduce him to Archer. My niece that i watch alot is into my little ponies ect but her favorite right now is Jake and the Neverland Pirates which isnt too bad.
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Amen about the commercials. We're just watching football here right now, and a commercial comes on for a show called "Killer Women." Mostly naked people on the screen, lots of guns, and so forth. My five year old was really interested in the show.
And no commercials during cartoons - so great. My kids see something advertised and immediately go to "I want that!" ugh.
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7 month old is driving us absolutely nuts
Still waking up every 2 hours all night long. it's about 50/50 odds that we can get him back to sleep without having to feed him. This sucks. Got him down to bed at 7:30 tonight and he already woke up crying once. Last night he woke up at 9, 11:30, 1, 3:30, then 6am was up for the day. He's becoming REALLY difficult to get him to nap for more than 20-30 minutes at a time during the day too.
Still waking up every 2 hours all night long. it's about 50/50 odds that we can get him back to sleep without having to feed him. This sucks. Got him down to bed at 7:30 tonight and he already woke up crying once. Last night he woke up at 9, 11:30, 1, 3:30, then 6am was up for the day. He's becoming REALLY difficult to get him to nap for more than 20-30 minutes at a time during the day too.
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We have not, we fight with him several times a day to try to get him to nap, we usually struggle with crying, screaming, rocking him, holding him, etc for longer than he even ends up sleeping for. Sometimes getting a 30 minute nap out of him is an hour-long ordeal to get there.
I've never even considered completely skipping naps. He definitely gets tired and cranky, I can't imagine him making it an entire day without napping, but maybe we should just let him go until he completely falls asleep on his own rather than trying to force naps.
I've never even considered completely skipping naps. He definitely gets tired and cranky, I can't imagine him making it an entire day without napping, but maybe we should just let him go until he completely falls asleep on his own rather than trying to force naps.