School holidays are hard work. Now there's an understatement! My boys usually rub along fairly well,with occasional fights and tantrums, but now that they are together from morning to night, it is hell. They start to squabble within 5 minutes of laying eyes on each other. And I close my eyes and sigh as I resign myself to another day of screaming like a fishwife and thinking up new and inventive ways of making them do as I ask. It is so frustrating because I consider myself to be an understanding mum, who asks nicely the first time! I sometimes wonder if my voice is on a different frequency to that which they are on!!!
Anyway, we had a treasure hunt which was great fun. I drew a load of of picture clues and stashed them all over the house and they had to find them and work out where the new clue was directing them to (no small feat if you saw my drawing). The final clue they had to figure out what the treasure was... ice lollies!
You are a brilliantly understanding mom, far better than this one, but it is simply a fact, kids don't understand parent and more than we understand russian ;0)
ReplyDeleteTreasure hunt sounds wonderful!
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