Staycation how to survive….everyone home

thegiver ↓

Thu, Aug 22 2024, 2:21 am

How are you keeping everyone busy? Peaceful? Fed? Clean?
When everyone is around all the time?
How do you manage self care? I would love a day to relax and read and exercise.

imaima ↓

Thu, Aug 22 2024, 2:30 am

thegiver wrote:

How are you keeping everyone busy? Peaceful? Fed? Clean?
When everyone is around all the time?
How do you manage self care? I would love a day to relax and read and exercise.

What ages?

JLi

Thu, Aug 22 2024, 3:42 am

So we did this just the past 2 weeks
At 9.30, 10 latest, everyone must go out on some small trip.
A walk to a park in another neighbourhood, feed the ducks, go to a market & e/o buys 1 fruit, 1 vegetable & 1 flower, etc...
The point of this is, that the kids don't have to much time to get "bored" -> fighting.
By the time we get home, it's time for some small project for the older ones, and some toys for the younger.
I give 2 choices for the older ones (kinetic sand vs plastenine magnet craft), for the younger ones I set out a pile of either magna-tyles or lego duplo.
Meanwhile I prep lunch.

After lunch, the young ones go for a nap, the olders watch a dvd. And I get 45 min for myself in my room, with a stern warning of "Unless there's a fire or blood, you shall not bother me"

And so the day proceed.
At the end of the day, we write down what we did that day.
The point of this, that at the end of the week we can look back, and remember all the fun & cool things, and it won't feel like one day morphed into another...

Hatzloche!!