What do you do when your kids are stuck at home?? Now, I only have to worry about one child being here during the summer time. I am not sure what she wants to do during the summer, but she will have her niece and nephew here. Now that she has moved back home with me, and has more things she can do at home. She has some plans already, and I know she will figure it out and not be bored this summer.
She planned already to bring her niece and nephew to the park, and spend time with them. She has missed them so much. I think they planned to play some Minecraft together too. What do you do when your kids are stuck at home? I don’t just want my child sitting in her room all summer sleeping. Or playing video games.
Lots of thinking on what to do when your kids are stuck at home. My kids never really wanted to do anything. But I wanted them to do something instead of just sitting around. Engaging them into learning life skills was a good idea I had. Because they did listen and learned some things, of course lots of explaining. But in the end, they were happy with what they understood and learned. Proud of themselves for things they can do without having mom to do for them.
Stand on their own two feet and know they can do it themselves. Make food for themselves and tidy a house without any help. Or even knowing how to do their own laundry is a big one for them to know how to do. Very valuable life skill for sure, and sometimes it is overlooked. If they know how to do their own laundry they won’t be asking you to do it for them. That’s a good thing.
Good time to Learn Life Skills
Maybe your children are helping you with the household chores. Cause this summer would be a great time to learn some Life Skills. Cause we all need Life Skills learning, especially if they eventually move out on their own. I realized that I need to teach my kids those skills while I still can.
Summer time would be a great time to teach your kids life skills. They will listen more now than ever, because they are bored. That may help or it may not. When I think about it, I did this a few times with my kids. Taught them how to make grill cheese or peanut butter and jam sandwiches, so they would never be hungry. Or even how they could make something easy like cakes out of a box. So what do you do when your kids are stuck at home, this is something that could be done.
I realized my son needed life skills as he got older, but it was already too late. He knew some things already. I just never told him why it’s important to clean a bathroom and why, because now he doesn’t seem to care to clean it. He does his own laundry and dishes, and knows how to cook his own meals. Bills he doesn’t really have any, but he is understanding that they exist.
I believe they need to know the basic skills to be out on their own.
- How to clean a bathroom and keep it clean
- do laundry and fold and put away
- do dishes and dry and put them away
- how to make simple meals so they won’t starve
- pay bills or even what bills are, and what to expect
- how to wake up on time, no one else to rely on anymore
- keep the place clean and tidy
Some of these are just some examples and of course come up with your own.
All kids are all different, families are different. We used to do alot of camping, time with the whole family. Seems as my kids got older, it seems to be more stressful. Cause everyone is bored, and having fun camping is not fun anymore. We always seem to have a campfire ban, so no smores or roasted marshmellows. That was most of the fun we always had. I love fishing, but that’s me and not so much the kids. So again, what do you do when your kids are stuck at home? Especially now that they got older and seems like everything is boring.