Comments on: After School: What It's Really Like https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/after-school-what-its-really-like/ Screen-Free Activities and Books for Kids Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:33:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Raising a Happy Child https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/after-school-what-its-really-like/#comment-2549 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:53:23 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=138#comment-2549 Mwa-ha-ha. In our family all the big ideas also happen about 5 minutes before dinner. Usually distraction tactics work well, and we have a rule of no major projects after dinner. But the part of what happens with the projects after they are done is very close to our house too.

]]> By: Jessica https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/after-school-what-its-really-like/#comment-2547 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:43:01 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=138#comment-2547 Oh--I love it!

I love the honesty...I am so tired of reading slick, polished accounts of people's interactions with their kids.

And, oh...I can relate to something being of utmost importance and ending up in the bottom of a bin or moving from surface-to-surface with no real home!

]]> By: MaryAnne https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/after-school-what-its-really-like/#comment-2546 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:07:55 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=138#comment-2546 You know I love crafts, but we don't even own glitter glue, due in no small part to its slow-drying properties.

I let my kids put their pictures up all over the walls on our house, much to my husband's chagrin. And sometimes even mine - I made them move their Halloween pumpkins to their own room, but now it's mid-January and they refuse to take them down. I'll have to be a mean mom and make space for all their other stuff sometime soon.

This description is exactly why, while we do crafts, they are very rarely structured...

]]> By: Christy https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/after-school-what-its-really-like/#comment-2545 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:38:49 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=138#comment-2545 Ha! I love it! I can relate.

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