[kungfufrog]

Admirable. I have similar age kids, average about 6-7 hours of interrupted sleep a night. They wake up between 5 and 6 am, asleep between 7-8 and I often don't go to bed myself until 11pm. I'm writing this comment while sitting next to my 3 year old who has woken up at 11:14pm and called out for comfort to get back to sleep.

I do 50% of the cooking, chores, school/daycare drop offs, work an 8.5 hour day 5 days a week, and have effectively zero time for any personal or extracurricular pursuits. I barely get any time alone with my wife as it is and if I gave up any of the moments we can snatch in between kids awake and asleep I don't think there'd be much of a relationship left. Once a fortnight I get a night to myself but often end up socialising. How do you do it? What's different about your life?

[mikemcquaid]

My guesses for things different about my life (not suggesting anyone should do any of these):

- my kids have been sleep trained to not wake up so early. They used to and now they don’t.

- if my kids wake up in the night: I put them back to bed (repeatedly if necessary) and don’t stay with them unless they are literally vomiting or need other medical attention

- I don’t work 8.5 hours a day 5 days a week. I didn’t when I was employed and don’t now

- my wife and I alternate week nights when we’re out the house. One of us can feed/bath/bed both kids by ourselves.