This upcoming week is Hayes's last week of Kindergarten. When the school year was about to begin I worried that I would have to get him to ON TIME every. single. day. (On time being the key there, I lose track of time easily). I doubt I am the first mother of a kindergartner to worry about that.
Now that school and our routine is about to end I need to set up some kind of routine to guide our days. Today was a great example of why. The kids were up at 6, they watched tv and ate breakfast, Bracken decided to go running and we made a family outing out of it by taking the kids bikes to the park/track where he was running. I had nothing planned for the rest of the day (Bracken studied) so when Hayes asked if we could play Monopoly I figured sure why not?!
Followed by more games, playing with Lyla, a trip to the library, dinner and movies. It was a great day as a family but as fun as it was, I need a little structure or something to make sure I get the stuff done in life that has to get done. We can't spend all summer having me entertain everyone all day. I don't want to be busy all day, every day. I think a little boredom is good for a kid, (and downtime good for the mom!) but I do want a little routine or something we are working towards.
So far my ideas are at least 20 minutes of reading a day, chores, some sort of planned physical activity (usually the bike ride in the morning but could be as simple as hopscotch) and some sort of spiritual strengthening activity in addition to scripture reading. (I'm thinking memorizing articles of faith/quotes, singing or telling stories, etc.) I doubt I'll get every single thing every day but I want to get a least some ideas together.
Ideally, I'd love to be able to send them out to play with friends and just run wild in the fields and mountains because that just seems like childhood to me...but where we live that's just not plausible. Although I'm hoping to make it up the mountain a few times to let them roll in the dirt!
Is there anything you like to do as a routine/tradition part of summer?
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my favorite line today was Hayes reading scriptures tonight. The verse said "Wherefore, I Jacob..." he read it as "wherefore, I Jabba" Star Wars on his mind...
2 comments:
I have been tryin to figure out the same thing. There are a couple good articles about it on power of moms website. We will have to chat about it and toss ideas around :)
I am also planning a structured summer - at least in June!! We need to chat. Park days, water pads, bowling, etc. I have a tenative plan but let's discuss!!
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