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Sabrina Hofmann's avatar

Thank you, I feel this ❤️ I definitely feel the chaotic, loud, loneliness and to me it gets worse, when not much else than parenting exists. Oh the beauty and the terror of having children 🤪

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Ha, yes beauty and terror! Thanks for reading!

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Patrick Eades's avatar

Very relatable, Andrew. I'm feeling the parenting loneliness now with my one year old. But in a couple of months I'll have to go back to work full time and I'm dreading it.

Great read.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Thanks Patrick! Hope your transition goes as smoothly as possible.

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Joelle Lewis's avatar

Babel is amazing!

We own a trampoline, but my stomach becomes untethered from my body - it's not pretty - and I avoid it all costs.

My only child is at school; it's hard.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Probably a smart move regarding the trampoline. Thanks for reading!

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Liz Alterman's avatar

I never thought I'd say this but I miss the trampoline years. (Not that we had one either...but metaphorically speaking...) We played Moss, too, but didn't have a name for it. I love the Pickleball comment!

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David Stanley's avatar

free range adjacent.. :-) nice

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Summer Koester's avatar

This is all too relatable!

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Andrew Knott's avatar

❤️ ❤️

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Kerala Goodkin's avatar

I think we are kindred spirits. I *totally* relate to how you relate to other parents. I know most of them as "so-and-so's dad or mom," and some parents are even entered this way into my phone. Meaning, I text with them at least semi-regularly and don't actually know their names. There is also a crapload of noise in our house -- with an adolescent daughter, a lot of that is in the form of slammed doors and theatrical proclamations about the extent to which I suck -- but I often also feel lonely, especially with kids who are getting older. I used to complain about my son being clingy and now I feel like I have to beg him to hang out with me. Ah, the paradoxes of parenting!

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Yes, that sounds about right! Paradox after paradox.

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