Some things about a second child are harder, the main one being the presence of the first child. But some things are easier, and at least in my experience, schedule is one of them. Before you have any children, you’re on an adult schedule—wake up for work, eat dinner late, maybe stay up to watch some TV. Catch up on sleep on the weekends. Sometimes, maybe, you go to bed earlier, sometimes later. Once you have even one child, you’re on their schedule. Wake up between six thirty and seven thirty a.m., breakfast, nap, lunch, nap, dinner, bedtime around seven thirty p.m. (ideally). When the second
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