Ours is 3. He's winding down at 7:30 PM. That leaves 8-11 PM most evenings for my time. I'm not going to pretend like I don't miss having 5-11 PM for myself, o

Ours is 3. He's winding down at 7:30 PM. That leaves 8-11 PM most evenings for my time. I'm not going to pretend like I don't miss having 5-11 PM for myself, or the fact that weekends tend to be quite busy. But I've done the "all non-work time is _my_ time" for my previous 38 years. And I've also come to understand that the luxury of time I had previously I was also quite adept at BS'ing myself about: "I'll start that tomorrow! never starts it" If I don't work on a side project, I understand very clearly now it is because I didn't sit down and actually do it. It's not my son's fault, it's my own.