When we were at playcentre a friend’s 1 year old threw some balls over the fence. She made it very clear she wanted me to go and fetch them as she wasn’t allowed to. I go, she’s watching over the fence, I find two balls and bring them back to her and she makes it…
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Yesterday’s science
I got Helena up yesterday morning and told her it was a special day. It was science day. Possibly I’m a little restless. Helena was not amused. “What’s got into you Mum?” “I like to do my own thing”. I got our test tubes out and then she was somewhat less reluctant. I wanted to…
Routines
Apparently maintaining routines is good…. It’s 11:30 and I am about to suggest that Helena gets dressed. I think I can tick maintaining routines off. Dad’s reading in the sunporch… I am about to join them. I quite like this routine.
Removing the stress of writing.
Helena hates writing. Writing as in the act of making letters and spelling, not writing as in the ideas/concepts, and she even appears to like editing (or maybe not and she’s just very very good at it). Helena got me to give her a spelling test the other day – self directed, and probably because…
Endless weird projects…
We often spend a lot of time at home… but this time so are others so we’ve certainly had more than usual electronic socialisation. Helena has been never endingly busy as usual but unusually has said she’s bored and wanted more screen time. All the ideas I have she’s poo pooed. Instead there has been:…
It’s not even day one…
Lockdown starts at 11:59pm… ie. it hasn’t even started yet, though we have not left the house for 3 days already, and our house looks like this. I confess some is mine, but I have cleaned the windows. My poor father.
Let them get bored..
There are so many things on the internet now that are designed to give your kids ideas of what to do while they are stuck at home quarantined, online schools, and some weird Homeschooling memes. I do quite like this one: Homeschooling is going well. Two students have been suspended for fighting and one teacher…
It’s all poo
Helena had her friend here after not seeing him for months. Every thing is about poo, although we have had a discussion over what exactly constipation is it’s mostly just the words. It’s all poo this, fart, butts.. talk of pooing on heads and other things. Eg “once upon a time there was a poo,…
Free ranging
No grown ups are allowed past this arrow.. I haven’t been past the arrow. The kids found this “awesome fort” after they went down a track to the other campground all by themselves (at 8,8,7, and 4 years old) and then they walked back along the road by themselves. I had total trust they would…
Doing it the hard way..
We have had the idea of making a raft for a long time. I had it as a kid and my sister and I built one, it was something to do with reading Tom Sawyer, the bit where they are rafting down the Mississippi living life fully and freely. Of course New Zealand rivers aren’t…
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