Comments on: Getting time with all four https://lauravanderkam.com/2015/09/getting-time-with-all-four/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: ARC https://lauravanderkam.com/2015/09/getting-time-with-all-four/#comment-30086 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:18:04 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=5671#comment-30086 In reply to Ana.

We have a hard time with this as well and also have only 2, but this year they’re at the same school (hooray for one dropoff!) so they spend nearly the whole day together. They both really love getting 1:1 time as well, and the almost-3-yo in particular is like a different (easier!) child when her sister isn’t there 😉 So we have motivation to try this more often.

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2015/09/getting-time-with-all-four/#comment-30085 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:27:03 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=5671#comment-30085 In reply to Ana.

@Ana – it’s so rare I had to blog about it! Yeah, we throw ours in the tub together, and put them to bed at similar times, and they all wind up riding to each others’ practices and the like. It’s just so much easier to have them all together, but they do so like to have some time with each of us. Or both of us — my 8-year-old has already asked that, for his birthday, my husband and I take him to a baseball game together (and hire a sitter for the others).

]]> By: Ana https://lauravanderkam.com/2015/09/getting-time-with-all-four/#comment-30084 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:25:03 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=5671#comment-30084 Wow, good for you, getting QT with all 4 in one day! I struggle with this, and only have 2—probably bc they are so close in age, they just end up needing to be at the same places at the same time. We often throw ’em in the bath together, they always wake up & go to bed at the same time, they do activities together often & many times have even been invited to birthday parties together since most of their friends know them both from daycare. Having the 5 year old in KG helps this, he & I get one on one time after I pick him up from aftercare every weekday, until my husband comes home with the 3 year old. He really enjoys that time (he said so!) and so do I

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