What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:22pm
But I don't know why you're (1) assuming that they can't participate in them if they're not close by - I certainly wasn't close by to mine - or (2) that even if they can't, that negative outweighs the positives of living "in the sticks."
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:31pm
Precisely the same here.
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:31pm
I don't think that at all.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:31pm
The tiring is not all physical. It's also mental. It's a huge adjustment just being hyper stimulated by the classroom enviroment for that long if you aren't used to it. DD has this problem and quite frankly so do I. After several hours of intense noise (like a carnival or other crowd) I desperately want a quiet place to go for a while. Mental tiredness is not from lack of exercise, it's a lower tolerance for stimulation.
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Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:35pm
That's why I said that if the kid is tired out by school, it may not be the case that having had a lot of outside activities prior to school would have made the transition easier, because a lot of activities for young kids give you practice with sustained focus for fifteen hours a week. Thank God. That's not what kids need to be doing before the age of six, in my opinion.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:37pm

I'm assuming it not based on your personal experiences growing up, but dj's post joking about why she can't WOH

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:37pm
ITA. There is the huge added factor that school is all new and far more is going on in it and with far more people than happens in anyone's home. It's one thing to pay attention to what your mom says when the only thing dragging your attention away is your brother and some toys. It's much more mentally taxing to pay attention to a teacher when the competition is 20 other kids you don't know and an enviroment you don't know while you must obey routines you don't know. THAT is what is exhausting. I understand it perfectly, having experienced it myself many times in my own life and then passed it on to dd.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:40pm
It's not really relevant what you would expect, because you won't be there and he won't be held to your standards. He may find that a lot less is expected of him by a teacher when he's in a room full of other kids than is expected of him when he's out in public with his brother and you. It may even be less than is expected of him at home.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:44pm
Why do you say "excuses"? That makes it sound like being an active family is a responsibility that PNJ and her dh are shirking. She doesn't need an "excuse" for not having a lifestyle that you think is better. And yes, before you say "where did I say it was better?", saying that she is making "excuses" implies that your way is better and she is making up excuses for not doing it your way. She is merely explaining why doesn't do it your way. There is no need for an excuse, merely an explanation.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 4:45pm
JOKING.

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