Same here. Raising kids, cooking, cleaning and working is more than enough.
After two months (Spain) we now have the right to go for a walk every day with the kids. This has improved things.
During the hard lockdown (no right to go outside with kids) I had very bad days (stress, anxiety, etc.), which affected my kids (they became angry aggressive, something that I had never seen in them) and with help from a psychologist I learned to calm myself down and now things are fine again.
I guess that my side project has been to learn about my own psychology and how it affects my family, and to learn to deal with all that.
I feel I should be pushing the schooling and learning harder, but my wife is leaning hard into their emotional well being first. And watching my middle daughter teach our youngest how to say "i feel" during an argument and not "you did" means I need to back off. I might even be growing as a parent too.
After two months (Spain) we now have the right to go for a walk every day with the kids. This has improved things.
During the hard lockdown (no right to go outside with kids) I had very bad days (stress, anxiety, etc.), which affected my kids (they became angry aggressive, something that I had never seen in them) and with help from a psychologist I learned to calm myself down and now things are fine again.
I guess that my side project has been to learn about my own psychology and how it affects my family, and to learn to deal with all that.
I have grown a lot as a person!