Well I am not a mother...but have recently been through a work force reduction and now home 24/7! I thought this would be a complete sabatoge to my Atkins WOE, afraid the boredom would be my undoing, but have found that now that I have all this extra time I am staying busy catching up on all the household projects that I needed to complete, job hunting, lurking on this forum etc! Actually I amazed that I am not snacking at all, I worked overnights so my eating times were really screwed up, not that I am on a normal persons schedule it is much easier to control eating.