Hello parents of Reddit,I (M30) am the father of two sons (2,5 years, 5 months).My normal day starts with work in the moring till afternoon. Thanks to the current situation I am working from home and after leaving my workroom I spend my time with the kids immediately. I play with them, carry them, make fun, change diapers, eat dinner, ect. Afterwards I bring the older one to bed and then it's 9-9:30. Then I have 1-1,5 hours for everything else: Time to tidy up, time with my wife, household, hobbies, taxes or just to take the baby for my wife to do some of the stuff. And then we go to bed to get enough sleep for the next day. On weekend I just change time for work with time for the children.And while I have been told a few times to enjoy the first years with my children it's hard for me because I can't enjoy the time. It's more a commitment for me than anything else. I think it's important for the children that I spend time with them as much as possible I lack to much of my possible time. And while some say that if your kids smile at you that you forget all of the hard work with them - I don't. I can't forget all the time and emotions spending for them and that there is so few left for my personal life or my marriage.And don't get me wrong, I know I'm privileged. I'm not a single parent, my wife supports me as best as she can, my income is enough for the whole family, at least my step parents do help us once in a while (but they live 1,5 hour's drive away) and both of the kids are healthy and happy most of the time but I just can't change my feelings. And altough my wife offered me to spend an hour once in a while alone I know that it's of course also a lot for her since she has both of the kids during my work time. And I don't want to stress her even more.I'm doing everything as best as I can for my wife and my children. And while I think that I am a good father I just don't enjoy the time and I don't know how to improve on that. I just hope that things will get better when my son gets to daycare after his third birthday and after both of them will play with each other more indepentendly if our baby gets older. And yes, I've heard the slogan "small children small problems, bigger children bigger problems" but I think it's easier for me to help with problems in daycare or school or other children than to spend time to play with toy cars or just playing baby games.Did anybody else have this problem? Does it get easier with the kids growing up? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3j35Sbz
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