Approaching this subject with trepidation; how much time do you spend with your children?

[tortoiseonthehalfshell]

I'm hoping for an informal poll, and very much hoping it doesn't kick into a WOH/SAH thread, because I think we're all sick of them. But I do get curious, on those threads, about how many actual hours we all spend with the kids, because it depends on so many variables - are they in school, do you have friends/family who'll take them for an afternoon or a sleepover here and there, what your comfort level with them being away from you is, etc. I am always nosy intrigued about other people's daily lives.

Will anyone humour me?

I'll start. I have one toddler daughter.

I work a 40 hour week with a fair commute, over 4 days a week. I spend 2-3 waking hours with my daughter on my 4 workdays, and all day (which equates to about 10 awake hours; she sleeps 12 hours at night and has a 2 hour nap in the day) on the other 3 days. Also she still wakes twice a night, my husband and I take one each.

Once every 6 weeks I spend a morning (3 hours ) at the hairdressers. Once every 3 months (ish) I spend an evening out with my husband or for a work function. At this age, that's all.

Anyone?

I have a very almost 7 month old dd and have been back at work full time for three weeks now. During the week I see her between 6.30am and 8.00am when I leave the house, then I get home around 5pm and we do bath and bed at about 7pm so I only really see her for about 3.5hrs per day during the week. At weekends it's just me and her so then it's all day. Mondays and Tuesdays my husband is home with her and Wednesday-Friday she's at the CM's between 9am and 5pm. As I'm a teacher the whole arrangement is term time only and I'm counting down the days to July 21st when I can have her back all to myself .

In terms of going out in the evenings I've left her once (and that was at home with my huband) since she was born and was back home by 11pm... I have yet to spend a night without her sleeping next to me - don't think I'm ready for that yet. Fell asleep on the sofa last Friday evening and felt sick to the stomach when I woke up without her there, for a second I thought I'd lost her .

Summer holidays started here in Scotland today my ds is 17 and has Autism. It will be 24/7 for the next 7 weeks ...phew

I have two DC, my DS is 5 and other than school hours and a 2 hour playdate I am always with him. I get him up at 8 and get 45 minutes with him then I pick him up at 3.30 he goes to bed at 8pm so 5 hr on a weekday between school and bedtime.

DD 20months is always with me I have no one to help out and DP works and likes to spend weekends doing family activities.

I'm a SAHM with a 15 m.o. DS. DH plays with him for half an hour or so a day while I cook dinner/tidy/MN. DH will take him out for a bike/pushchair ride every couple of weeks for maybe an hour.

The rest of the time he's with me, including at night (we co-sleep) but I do get 7.30pmish till my bedtime without him.

I'm with my nearly 2 year old all the time (even bloody sleep with him)
Three school age children are in my care out of school hours though I ignore them and send them outside in that time too.

Sometimes dh does something with a few of them but normally I will have one or more with me.

The only exception is that I started driving lessons this weekend so it will be 1 hour and half away from them every saturday. It will be weird but lovely

I am sahm to a dd age 7 and a ds age 3. I am with them all the time except for school and after school activites 3 x day/week (dd) and ds goes to preschool 3 mornings a week from 9./15-12.15. Apart from that I am with him all the time, bar the very occasional babysit by friends if I have an appt or similar, or if I have work and my dh looks after him.

I am with one or both of my children for more than 150 hours per week.
I think I'm breaking the working time directive .

(We are currently waging a war of attrition to end the co-sleeping - the DCs are winning ATM).

Can't work, no practical childcare.

I'm awake now & they're all asleep, bouts of insomnia are generally my only child-free time. I get random snippets of child-free time here and there, 55 min. shopping & errands while DD is at gym many Saturdays, 15 minutes of electrolysis every 8 weeks (so half an hour childfree including travel time).

I let DC4 watch a lot of TV during the schoolday while I go on the Poota, that's a little like child-free time .

I spend about 24 hours a day with Ds who is 3yrs old. Although, he has recently started sleeping for up to 6 hours in his own bed, so I get some space from him then. All our waking hours are spent together.

5yo Dd goes to nursery for 25 hours a week, and sleeps for about 11 hours a night in her own bed. Apart from that she is with me.

Oh, but I am forgetting the weekends, when Dh often takes them off for a couple of hours to do chores or go to the beach or something.

Am quite happy with the situation, though wish for my children's sake there were other interested adults in their lives rather than only their two parents.

I spend all the time with her except for when I go out with my friends at the weekends. I usually go clubbing and the afternoon drinking sesh once a week and my husband looks after her. Also my parents or brother take her for nights/babysitting for a few hours quite regularly.

All my time without her is socialising time as I have a job but she comes to work with me.