I feel this so much man. Ours have been home solidly for about 5 weeks now and fuck me, cracks are starting to show. After a year I’d be chewing the carpets.
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Yeah her job is harder than mine, I often say. My wife and I are much more efficient and effective in our roles (I work, she runs the house).
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I’m starting to lose the rag a little which results in those guilt soaked nights once they’re in bed and you reflect on the days events 
My daughter is already trying to manipulate and push my buttons. It’s actually amazing when you see it in action considering her age.
The wee man is just crawling everywhere and banging his head of all sorts of shit. He’s got a new bruise every day which then sends his mum into a mad para trip. It’s all a locomotion of stress.
I’m practically begging my work to put me on permanent backshift
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Its honestly amazing how much they learn so young in terms of how to “manipulate” you. Except its not manipulation, its just the way they’ve learned to behave. So difficult to see that in the moment though, I think every parent has had those doubt filled nights of “did I handle that right”, “am I teaching them the right things”.
I’m really lucky mine are old enough that my better half is pretty chilled about bruises and scrapes or whatever now.
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Humans are survivors. It’s what we are. When you’re not big enough or strong enough to bend someone or something to your will, you rely on manipulation to get what you want. Kids are fantastic manipulators because they HAVE to be. It’s admirable…except when they’re yours, haha.
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It’s crazy how much I’ve picked up from mum.
For example, mum has a habit of being extremely explosive, then being cheerful literally 5 min later. I’d always found it annoying and confusing, but realized that I do the exact same thing.
@ChongLordUno idk how parents make it…
Re: manipulation
The consensus seems to be that girls are better at “manipulation”not sure if it’s something inherent or learned. Interesting area for research 
Minefield of a subject in all honesty.
Maybe men rely on physical attributes or more direct action to achieve outcomes
Maybe women have had to use other means to achieve outcomes eg emotional/psychological
There’s a good book called The Coddling of the American Mind which touches on something similar
Female suicide rate increasing tenfold since social media became accessible through smartphone. Girls using slander to isolate others and other methods of bullying etc just to name a few
Give it a read as it will explain it way better than I ever could
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Exactly! And I appreciate that.
I’ve found that females tend to play mind games and have a penchant for drama, especially romantic drama and it’s annoying. Of course not every male/females falls into these types, but on average, that’s what I’ve noticed
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@kdjohn This is a late reply on running versus weights. But here I go.
Sprinters mostly lift. For the reasons (and others) explained by Vision1.
A method to avoid lower body overload is to sprint then lift on the same day. Take 1-2 days rest or low intensity work then repeat the sprint/lift day. Or use a cycle of sprint, lift, rest days.
Sprinting is a pretty serious competitive event, you lift to improve your sprinting. Its not a recovery method, how you look does`t matter much etc etc - its the track time that counts.
Endurance runners that compete aim to maximise anything that improves their running, which is mostly running or other aerobic stuff. The benefits from spending xminutes on lifting will not generally exceed those benefits.
Yes lifting would improve their general health, some lifts seem to reduce injuries.
I would not say endurance and strength work are completely antagonistic. But there are IMO 2 key issues, one is that of fibre conversion of fast/slow slow/fast with antagonistic exercise methods. The other, and probably more important for normal folks is lack of time to do both well.
Nothing wrong with you improving both strength and endurance. But notice my comments about “competing” in a sport. Once you aim for that reasonably seriously you have to specialise.
Anyway, I will let everyone get back to tormenting this poor ginger bloke (why ?).
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Fully agree. We ended up coming to the conclusion that I misinterpreted what you were initially trying to say, and I went on a tirade for no reason, because you, @vision1 and myself were all essentially saying similar things. I had my blinders on, sorry!
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Can you expand on this please 
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they must be jealous -
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While I have two gingers paying attention: Is it true that gingers need more anesthesia?
I read about this in an article recently
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Can you blame them mate?
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not at all -
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I dont think so - I have more pain tolerance than most people that I know.
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I’ve heard that too
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so, you’re reading articles about us ginger-folk Anna?
Hmmmm - I’m sensing some ginger fantasies coming from your direction…
It’s understandable tho -
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I call it broadening my worldview 
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