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AIBU?

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AIBU to ask those working from home with young children...

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Minimumstandard · 10/06/2020 23:21

...how you have lowered your standards to cope?

Here wfh with son just gone back part-time to daycare very recently. DH working in/out of house but not really much help. He would say that he has 'tried' Hmm.

So I have....reduced housework to bare minimum (bathroom, kitchen surfaces, hoovering only occasionally even if floor dirty, no putting away toys) and have deliberately left those tasks I know will annoy DH enough for him actually to do them.

Meal quality/variation in huge decline...Beans on toast, fish fingers and beans, tinned tomatoes and beans on rice. Lots of cheese sandwiches. Who knew scrambled eggs and boiled carrot was actually a meal? It is now. DS doesn't seem to mind too much, DH minds more but gets his head snapped off if he says anything...We both hate cooking but somehow muggins here gets stuck with it all. I'm currently testing how bad I have to be for this to change.

Parenting standards non-existent, apart from a long walk each day. 'If you watch TV quietly for 10 minutes, you can have a biscuit'. 'If you have your bath, I'll let you watch Peppa Pig while I answer emails'. 'Just let Mummy check this document and you can watch the YouTube video where they splash paint everywhere for the sixth time this morning'. 'You want to watch that episode of In the Night Garden again? For the third time? Good choice, go ahead!'

I'm not really feeling that guilty anymore (got past that point weeks ago and now DS back at daycare some of the time so not so neglected), but just curious as to whether anyone else's lockdown has been similar?

OP posts:
Cremebrule · 11/06/2020 14:41

My standards are down significantly. Tv time is high as are easy meals like fish fingers. The whole house is a tip. We try and catch up over a weekend but the children trash it so we can’t be bothered during the week as otherwise we’d just be constantly tidying in our only free time.

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