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I now babysit my daughter and hack on some Open Source projects. When she is playing she likes to have my attention, when I sit at the computer she would come
by zby 17y ago
I now babysit my daughter and hack on some Open Source projects. When she is playing she likes to have my attention, when I sit at the computer she would come and show that she wants that I take her on my hands, I can read Hacker News or something but usually I can do programming only when she is asleep which is now two times a day about 1/2 - 1 hour, and often she gets asleep when we are on the daily walk - then this 1/2 hour of my time is lost. Then there is feeding her and cooking for me and my partner, and cleaning, usually I can do some cooking when she is awake but it's not very effective work. Not much time is left, maybe in the evening.
- niels_olson 17y agoThis is a great observation. I watched my (then) 4 and 1 year-old kids the summer after my first year of med school. It took me about 2 days to decide it was time to install this operating system called Linux I'd heard about. I could read while they were awake, but could only dive deeper when they were asleep, which was not much time at all. So I agree with you, and I'll up that to say that things don't really get easier as they get older, because they sleep less. You'd think the older they get, the more time you'd have, but, at least at 4 and 7, it really just means they can climb higher, fall further, hit harder, and break bigger things.