https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:35:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94591 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:10:40 +0000 heffalump 94591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, one is hard enough! Hope your hubby takes the kids for a night so you can have some rest when he gets home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94354 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:25:59 +0000 chopsuey 94354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BoogieBea: Ditto! I stay with LO alone 3-4 days a week while DH travels. It ain't easy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94343 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:23:08 +0000 SAHM0811 94343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my DH hasn't traveled for work since #2 arrived (8 months ago), so i'm thankful in that respect... BUT, he usually comes home in the middle of dinner or after it so I'm often alone at dinnertime. oh and lunchtime too twice a week when my older DD is off from school. it does suck, but i've gotten used to it and i have good and bad days. at least your little one loves solids! mine doesn't... although i try not to stress too much about when my kids are picky because they do come around some days.... </p> <p>i'm just SO glad we are one day closer to the weekend right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94299 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:12:19 +0000 Andrea 94299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is why I am scared of having more than one because I would be doing everything by myself M-F. Seems so hard!!</p> <p>Glad your DH is home soon!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94279 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:03:25 +0000 BoogieBea 94279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: They're 23 months apart. DS is 2 years 7 months and DD is 8 months. </p> <p>@chopsuey119: Thanks. I have so much respect for single parents with young children. I don't know how they do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94269 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:57:05 +0000 chopsuey 94269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg. I can't imagine being home alone with 2! Glad your DH is coming home tonight! Great job with the kiddies! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94264 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:50:26 +0000 banana 94264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my! I guess this is what I'll have to look forward to when my 2nd one joins our family! How old are you children? My son will be 2 yrs 3 months when my baby arrives. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dinner-time-with-2-kids-is-so-difficult-when-youre-alone#post-94240 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:22:22 +0000 BoogieBea 94240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH has been away this week (coming back tonight!) so I've been holding down the fort on my own. Now that my younger one is on solids, it is super duper hard to feed two LOs at the same time. They need to be fed the same time because if one sees the other eating, they'll want something as well.<br /> DS is so picky with food these days. When DH is around, one of us ends up spoon feeding him to get him to eat. so I try to prepare something that has a higher probability of him eating on his own. But I still have to constantly to tell him to eat or at least stay at the table. Meanwhile, DD, the younger one, loves her solids so if there's not a constant flow of food, she'll get cranky and whine.<br /> Sometimes they'll both be whining because DD wants more food while DS doesn't want to eat anymore. It's just craziness. </p>