My 5 year old sat me down this weekend and earnestly informed me ‘Mom, i think at the weekends we have to do something special’
‘such as what?’ i say
‘I think every weekend we have to go out somewhere, like on a trip or an adventure because every Monday we have to write about what we did at the weekend so we have to do SOMETHING’
Now my questions is ’ what is it with gorays and weekends?', why can’t u just stay at home at the weekends. This brought back horrible memories of my own ‘write about your weekend’, there is only so much ‘I went to my aunty’s house’ you can write.
I informed my son to use his imagination and next Monday to write about his visit to Africa and to use the wildelife documentry he watched as his motivation.
You don't have to go out every weekend to do something. Just camping out in your own backyard can be something special for a five year old. How about letting your five year old play parent for a day. Let him decide what to eat and what to do for ALL of you. There is so much you can do on the weekends. Don't be a desi parent... be creative!
I agree with FG. DOn;t make it unecessarily difficult for your child. Make sure the weekend has a reasonable amount of activity whether its indoors or outdoors, so your child has a fun time writing about it instead of having to imagine stuff or lie.
hahaha, you sound like my mother. She would make us sit in the garden and eat our fishfingers and chips so we had something new to write about in “my diary” on Monday mornings. Most entires were filled with, “today at my daddi’s house” and once i got a gold star cos we went to my cousins house instead.
It's summer time in the northern hemisphere...take him out for cherry picking in a nearby farm. I used to take my nephew to such places. He would pick berries and I would pick ripen cherries.
i was kidding about the algebra! they do all the soccer and play and activies, even museums but the concept of a big BIG BIG event every weekend, puh lese!
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serendipiti…my son is obsessed with numbers…no matter wherever we go on weekends …he likes to write about 9000 monsters .2 milion kangroos n some 4oo dragons…
here’s a line from his recent monday diary
I had a dream late last night
i saw 2000 dinosaurs
and i woke up in fright
Afia.....thank u..that is a constructice suggestion on how to spice up his diary. Has your son discovered the joy of making u listen to 'look how far i can count till'
