What are your kids doing today?

[FarmerJamie]

Bad day fishing beats a good day in the office. Son caught a few small ones, but it was a wonderful morning

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Bad day fishing beats a good day in the office

Amen!

 

[tortoise]

We picked DS10 up from grandma's house, went to a baseball game / company picnic, and dropped him back off with grandma. (I'm off duty for piano lessons this week.)

DS2 picked out a preK activity/curriculum book when I was getting some school supplies. I had picked out the same book, so he was SO HAPPY to get it! He calls it "Panda Book" and he can do pages that he only needs to circle.

 

[NH Homesteader]

DD is working on some letters today. Figured we better finish pre-k if we want to start K in the fall. I don't stress about grade levels too much but being a former teacher it helps my planning. Going to try to do a practice portfolio this year for when I need one next year. Not to wish bad things upon others, lol, but I'm looking forward to public school starting so we can go places without mobs of people!

 

[tortoise]

I haven't updated much lately, but I'll re-start off with an outright brag.

DS2 knows the alphabet, can recite numbers to 16 and count until he runs out of patience (or 16, but he's 2 so he doesn't last that long) He is currently obsessed with pre-writing tracing. I'm both delighted (because this is very easy way to entertain him) and petrified because my DS10 started doing this stuff when he was *3* and DS10 is very academically advanced... makes me wonder if DS2's education will be equally as difficult/challenging/unconventional. (I hope not...)

DS10 has been watching Great Courses' "Understanding the Universe" and listening to an full-cast audiobook of Shakespeare's "Richard III". Oh, my baby nerd.

We are en route to someplace where we can see the eclipse in totality. (Oh my big DH nerd ) I'm happy my kiddos are so easily entertained in a car. They're silent. SILENT. For hours. And they're awake. This is unnatural.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Have fun! How far do you have to travel? I am far, far away from the totality zone. I think we're getting 60% here.

 

[sumi]

@tortoise I like your kids! Now, would you please explain how you achieved the silent in the car for hours. Mine manages about 20 minutes on a good day lol

 

[tortoise]

DH rented a camper so we can follow the weather. He's totally geeking out over this. First leg of the trip is 8 - 9 hours. From there we follow the weather. No idea where we'll end up.

 

[tortoise]

@sumi - I'm starting to feel like I've got this momming thing figured out! I learned how to NOT do car trips with kids from my parents. I do everything opposite of them and it works great!


DS2 has an ipad and I put new apps on just for this trip. His favorite is Starfall. He got through the free material already, so I paid for access to the full content for this trip.

DS10 has a portable DVD player. He likes those lecture DVDs which is awesome because there's SO much content/play time on them. Current disc set is 96 lectures at 30 minutes each. Plus the Shakespeare, IDK how long the run-time is, but it's 3 discs. I also packed a couple books for him since we have a lot of unplanned time on this trip. I figure out what his favorite topics are and save those materials for a road trip, and schedule when I place requests for library materials so they arrive in time for travel. I use the max allowed number of doses of his ADHD medication while we're on trips too. I don't use it for him much in summer, but he gets it for trips.

No toys, stuffed animals, fidgets packed. For snacks I take a big carton of goldfish crackers and a gyrobowl. Kids have water bottles and I have gatorade powder too. I'd rather pack light and buy treats along the way. I end up spending less money and there's nothing in the car to beg for.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Geeze - how times have changed! Road trips with my kids consisted of coloring books and the ABC game, lol!