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It has definitely changed the sleep habits of my family. However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not cha

It has definitely changed the sleep habits of my family. However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all. My kids have no reason to get up early and really not much to do in summer. My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone time in the last hour or so of the day, now I'm going to bed first on many nights.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all. Same boat here, can confirm no changes in sleeping patterns. At this point I'm frankly jealous of people who got laid off during this whole thing because all it has meant for me is wearing a mask everywhere and my gym being closed long enough for me to get quite out of shape.
- annoyingnoob 6y ago
  Its a mixed bag. Its hard to watch the family be basically on vacation for months while I get up and go to work everyday. On the other hand, they have done everything there is to do around the house a bunch of times and are mostly bored. When the kids were still in school I'd come home to a frustrated and pissed off family everyday and I have to sit down and do school work with the kids so that they would get it done. Home school was a real struggle in my house.
cosmie 6y ago
> My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone time in the last hour or so of the day, now I'm going to bed first on many nights. Same struggle here. My desk is also in the master bedroom, so any early morning calls I have tend to wake up whomever is in the room (which usually includes at least one kid that woke up during the night and migrated in). My other half handles it well enough (as I worked from home frequently prior to the pandemic), but when it wakes up a kid that ended up in our bedroom after staying up way later than they should have, it leads to a really cranky household for the whole day.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

> However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all. Same boat here, can confirm no changes in sleeping patterns. At this point I'm frankly jealous of people who got laid off during this whole thing because all it has meant for me is wearing a mask everywhere and my gym being closed long enough for me to get quite out of shape.

annoyingnoob 6y ago
Its a mixed bag. Its hard to watch the family be basically on vacation for months while I get up and go to work everyday. On the other hand, they have done everything there is to do around the house a bunch of times and are mostly bored. When the kids were still in school I'd come home to a frustrated and pissed off family everyday and I have to sit down and do school work with the kids so that they would get it done. Home school was a real struggle in my house.

cosmie 6y ago

> My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone time in the last hour or so of the day, now I'm going to bed first on many nights. Same struggle here. My desk is also in the master bedroom, so any early morning calls I have tend to wake up whomever is in the room (which usually includes at least one kid that woke up during the night and migrated in). My other half handles it well enough (as I worked from home frequently prior to the pandemic), but when it wakes up a kid that ended up in our bedroom after staying up way later than they should have, it leads to a really cranky household for the whole day.