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The weekend is too short (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I became a stay at home parent and we’ve been able to reclaim our weekends. 90% of the cleaning gets done during the week, so we have time to actually do things as a family. It also gets easier as they get older. Physically anyway. Just hang in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hate how this got so shittted on and now nobody even makes enough money for it anyway.

It is not fair that both people need to work when kid is tiny. Kid needs a parent around at that stage but we don't support parents in this country in fact we like to fuck them

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I know a number of families with one parent working. They just chose differently. They don't have a massive, expensive house, they don't vacation in Disney, they don't have brand new cars, nor expensive cars, the kids don't have the coolest gadgets, etc, etc.

They just chose differently than other people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a 4 day work week, at some point I tried a 5 day work week, within a year I was depressed and gladly accepted a 20% paycut to got back to 4 days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yea, I think there's likely something that objectively makes sense to the 4 day work week. If you want actual time off that feels like it's yours ... 3 days feels like a bit of a minimum ... that middle day with a buffer either side feels like it's untethered to the work-week, something that 2 day weekend does not give you at all.