Dad of a 4 and 2 year old here. There is one effective way I have found: schedule it. Literally slot 2 hours on Thursday night to learn something you want. The

Dad of a 4 and 2 year old here. There is one effective way I have found: schedule it. Literally slot 2 hours on Thursday night to learn something you want. There are a couple of reasons this helps. If you treat it as a serious and valuable use of your time you will be more efficient in how you approach it. Scheduling also lets you anticipate it and mentally prepare for being receptive to learning. It is important to protect that time and get buy-in from your partner so you can fully shift gears out of parent-mode. The flip side of this is no staying up extra late to noodle around then be burnt out the next day. Accept that you are going to learn things slowly and it will stretch out much longer than you might like.