I checked CW, ESPN, and MW+ for a replay of today's game against Wyoming, and there isn't one available anywhere. I work on Saturdays and can't watch the games live, and it looks like the next three games won't have replays available, either. Does anyone know why?
I'm a parent of 3 children, ages 4, 19 months, and 6 months. I'm a Millennial who grew up with what was probably an inordinate amount of free-range childhood; I was allowed to just wander around our farm without supervision from probably age 5, while my parents were off at work. There was an elderly grandma and great-uncle to "watch" us, but in truth, no one was really supervising. It was more of a "someone call 911 if it gets really bad" style of parenting.
This is not my reality.
My husband is gone about 14 hours a day (long hours and long commute) for 4-6 days a week, so I'm all alone at home with three kids that I'm failing spectacularly. I'm drowning. I don't have a village, it's pretty much just me, and I certainly can't just let the kids wander the property all day, or I'd be arrested.
I'm wondering, what's the happy medium? I was very independent from a young age, so I thought that parenting was going to look similar to what I experienced. What's the line between free-range kids and being a helicopter parent? I can't deal with the non-stop whining, screaming, crying, jumping on me, etc.
This is mostly just a rant, but thank you in advance for any advice.
I ask because I've been seeing two opposing ideas throughout Conservative social media spaces. In addition to the Kirks, I've seen a lot of tradwife-type influencers and conservative podcasters that are encouraging people to have children young (early 20's), before they have steady careers or a long-term, stable housing situation. Inevitably, I feel, this is going to lead to at least some couples having a precarious financial situation, especially in the expensive times we live in.
On the flipside of the coin, I'm also seeing a lot of conservatives (usually not Internet famous, but rather regular people) having very heated opinions about any social programs that would help ease the burden of raising children on young couples. For example, North Dakota will soon vote on a proposition to provide free (tax funded) school lunch to all school children, regardless of income, but I see an overwhelming amount of conservative people on social media respond with things like "Don't have kids if you can't afford to feed them!"
I know Conservatives aren't a monolith, which is why I'm guessing that these are just two different groups of people? That there just happens to be a "Just start a family, you'll figure it out" crowd and a "Stop breeding irresponsibly, you're a drain on society" crowd?
For what it's worth, I grew up in a conservative family, but consider myself to be Independent/moderate as an adult. My family was most likely in the "Don't have kids if you can't afford them" group, if I had to speculate