What is your after school routine?

[Jemster]

I have ds nearly 6 and dd 18 months and am finding it really hard to give them both individual attention in the after school period, before tea & bed.
Dd is very demanding and says mummy repeatedly whilst practically hanging on to my leg! I try to play with her, read books with her, aswell as get their tea but she screams if I leave her side.

Meanwhile ds is watching the Mr Men over and over and would happily watch it all afternoon. I've tried to suggest reading or games with him but he's not interested.

Any tips please on how to spend these few hours of the day so that everyone is happy, as right now I just feel stressed out and guilty.

Hi, I have a slightly different situation. 2 ds's 5 & 9 months, my routine is home by 3.30pm pop baby in his activity station while we do ds1s homework, which is usually reading and only takes about 20 mins. I then feed the baby and cook ds1's dinner while he watches tv or plays.
The topic innyearb1 at my sons school is currently mr men, is this the same at your sons?
Anyway, I think your issue is more the age of dd who is more demanding of your attention, so I would purchase a ringing egg timer (or set alarm on phone) and some stickers. Can't remember where I heard this but it worked when ds was younger and at that stage. Let son watch tv while you set timer for say 30 mins (you could even let dd pick the alarm sound) set expectations "We've set the alam and mummy is now going to play with you until it rings, when it does Mummy has to go and make the dinner while you play and if you can do that when mummy comes back you can have a special sticker" you could set it again for however long it takes to complete dinner and then say "time for mummy to come back, or time to start doing xxx homework etc etc" apparently if this done on a regular basis they come to understand mum comes back, mum gave time. It did work for me but I still had to be a bit firm and tell him I was now bust with other things until the alarm went off, but usually the chance of sticker did the trick and my alarm. Just a thought but ay help, good luck.