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My two children wrecked my sleep for 5 years. You sort of get used to it. Only now, 10 years later am I starting to get my sleep back to a reasonable, non-panic
by wussboy 6y ago
My two children wrecked my sleep for 5 years. You sort of get used to it. Only now, 10 years later am I starting to get my sleep back to a reasonable, non-panicked amount.
So, "how to fix it" in my opinion is to just outlive it.
Editing to say that I didn't realize how much my kids had wrecked my ability to sleep. Don't wait 10 years like I did to try and get it fixed!
- markus_zhang 6y agoAgreed! There is nothing can be done anyway. My wife is taking the major burden so I might actually spend more time awaken during the night to replace her as the night guardian. I also heard that boys need more time with father so I'm expecting more time spent outside of programming (programming is one of my hobbies, not a job requirement) when he grows up. The good part about parenting is that I'm forced to be more productive at anything. Making calls to hostipal/government? Sure I'm going to do that NOW, not tomorrow, not 5 minutes later. Need to look at Kafka tool and do some development about the logs? Sure I'm going to do that NOW, not going to leave until the deadline hits. Because if I don't wrap up things NOW, I might end up forgetting to do them now that my boy has taken up a large part of my attention.
- sneak 6y ago> So, "how to fix it" in my opinion is to just outlive it. Stuff like this always seems to strike me as if people have forgotten that having kids is totally optional.
- markus_zhang 6y agoSometimes being optional does not go very well because people don't have a strong opinion about X.