Came across this piece in The Daily Mail today, apparently, parents with young children only get enjoy 15 minutes of quality time together.

I have two questions, the first; did they need a survey for that? Haven’t they ever been with baby and toddlers? Haven’t they seen those ESDs (energy sucking devices AKA your children) to know it killing any chance of spending quality time with your spouse?

The second question is, 15 minutes, that long? And quality? Usually it is just letting out steam at each other.

Now seriously, I love my girls, they are the most amazing things on the face of this earth, really are. However, they are ESD, energy sucking devices, they want all of you, all of the time, and that can be very taxing, personally and also on you and your partner, as a couple.

That way, maintaining a relatively strict sleeping routine is important, both for parents and children. The bottom line is that children need there 11 – 12 hours a night. The bottom line is that parents need their time off. Those two can work perfectly together.

Here is how things work at the Pollak household:

17.30 Supper time
18.15 Bath time
18.45 TV / Book reading time
19.30 – 20.00 Bedtime.
20.01 Bottle of wine is opened.
20.02 Parents chilling out.

We tried to implement this routine since the girls were born, must say it wasn’t as smooth as it is now, but from relatively early age (around 7 month) we, as parents had our quiet time, having dinner together, watching TV and basically slowly fading out.
So, if you having trouble with your little ESD‘s sleep routine, try following the advice of Andrea Grace, our sleep expert, we have, and it worked for us.