This is my first official summer as a "stay at home mom" and I am having a really hard time with the stay at home part of that title. Just before school got out I began to panic....what in the world are the kids going to do this summer?....how can I keep them busy?....how many activities can I fit into each day? I have enrolled them in a morning summer school program so that I can attend to my position at the church, but after 12 o'clock noon I have nothing for them to do.
What a blessing!
I was sitting on the side of the pool watching them swim yesterday thinking, "isn't there something else I should be doing?". I realized that this is exactly what I should be doing, enjoying my kids being kids and having some time in the summer to just do nothing. My childhood summer days were filled with hours of swimming, dressing barbies and braiding their hair, building forts and endless bike rides. Why do we feel that we have to constantly stimulate our children with planned activities? They, and we, need time for imagination and boredome and relaxation.
This will be my summer of renewal!
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I really think this is a big question. I'm living on the other end of the time with kids spectrum right now. Of course, mine are older. James does his best, but even as he realizes Dad's passing is a time for him to be with us, we really do bore him after a while.
I think I do too much, but everytime I think about cutting back I have a hard time picking. I think about the choices my dad made. He was also enormously busy, but that didn't interfer with our being very close.
"Why do we feel that have to constantly stimulate our children with planned activities?"
Amen, sister.
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