Children Activities in Lawrence Kansas

Mother’s day is just behind us and I was thinking that I did not give anything to all the mothers who read my blog. what could I give you? I am not an expert at parenting but I do know how overwhelming it can be somedays, after all this is my second time around.

So for all of you moms everywhere a bit of unsolicited advice:

1. Do less! You can never get it all done no matter how hard you try, it is impossible. Magazines lie to you! Make priorities in your own life and in the life of the ones you love.
2. Once in a while turn it off! The TV, the phone, the computer, the DVD player all of your electronics, turn them off, just to breathe differently for a while. Look for a different beat of sounds and sights, feel the solitude and possibly the boredom of not being bombarded with all that.
3. Someone smarter than I one day said “to be bored is to have failed”, I forgot who said that. He was wrong children like we do need to be bored once in a while. It allows them to be creative.
4. Spend a week without reading parent magazines. Leave the parenting guidelines, the advice, the experts aside and do what is natural to you in you parenting style.
5. Surround yourself with other parents who like you are searching for another way. You are not alone to want to slow down a little .
6. Celebrate diversity. Look for people you admire and ask them how they grew up, did they have this super-charged curriculum, all these after school activities? Probably not.
7. Plan some unplanned time. I know it is a paradox. A paradox is what we live! Our children should have a little hour of free time every day.
8. Find a balance, remember kids are watching, they want to be like you. You want balanced kid find your own balance! How you say? Read number 1 again.
9. Do things for your kids not for people watching. Ask yourself : “why do I do that? is this the best time to add piano lessons?”
10. Don’t be too overprotective. Yes we live in difficult time, but the street is not a battle field. Walk around the neighborhood you will see, pedophiles are not hiding every 15 yards.
11. Finally don’t do your kids homework. In a perfect world there might not have been homework, but for now there is some et it is your kids obligation to do it.