I’ll start this by saying I’m currently off on short term leave due to severe burnout. Our kids are in full day daycare / before & after care and get driven to school.
My son just turned 5 and has undiagnosed ADHD - I have ADHD so I’m fairly confident he has it as well. My daughter 7, doesn’t and is fairly neurotypical.
I am really struggling with parenting. They’re gone during the day 8-4:30 and the few hours they’re home for dinner / bedtime has become a bigger and bigger struggle for me. I feel like we’re constantly asking our kids to listen, to do something, to stop fighting and I’m just at the end of my patience.
I’m home and resting during the day so you’d think I’d be energized by the time they’re home but no- if anything, it’s been harder since being off - at least when I was working it was constant survival mode.
Does it get easier?
I hate this. And also. Mom guilt is so real