‘I let my kids watch TV in the morning so I can have some me-time’
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Sure there is sometimes a fuss about screens, but most mothers are secretly overjoyed that these things exist. However, sometimes things go wrong. This is also the case with Jenny (36), mother of Thom (3) and Abel (1).
“I am over the moon as a conscious single mother, but I need one thing to keep all the balls in the air: enough sleep.
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Me time
So I fish the children out of bed between six and seven in the morning when they are awake and let them watch TV on my bed until they are really unstoppable. On days that I don’t have to work, it is sometimes up to ten o’clock.
“This is my way of me-time”
degenerate? I don’t think that for a second, my whole life is dominated by them. This is my way of me-time. Oh and if they don’t want to sleep at night? Then I do exactly the same. Fortunately that rarely happens.”
This article can be found in Kek Mama 07-2022.
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