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What kind of errands....
| 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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Where do you live? There are plenty of activities around where I live that take place after 5:30 pm.
Sports practices typically start around 5:30 pm. All the local gyms that offer "tumble tots" and similar programs have evening and weekend classes. My dh, in order to get some one on one with our kids, has always taken them to a parent-child tumbling class that has classes every night of the week - with the last one starting at 7:30 pm. There is a karate school that actually has a van that picks kids up directly from school - I see it every day in the car line when I'm picking my dd up. Even our library has evening story time hours.
While I think it is easier on our family to be in activities b/c I am a SAHM and I don't have to worry about rushing to leave work, pick up the kids at daycare and then on to their activity/practice, it is possible to WOH and still be involved. In fact, most of my neighbors are dual WOH parents, and their kids have always been in activities starting around age 3-4.
In fact, now that I think about it, when ds started soccer at age 3, they didn't have "games" with a practice during the week. They had soccer "clinic" which was on Saturday mornings for an hour.
And PNJ lives in an urban area where I'm almost positive that there are plenty of activities out there that start after 5 pm and on weekends. If she wanted them to be in activities, she could find some. I can understand not wanting the "rush rush" of WOH and then dashing off to activities, but plenty of people do do it.
Please. Her reason was given after she backpedaled from the "excuse" of not being active because her kids are "little". No one is saying she HAS to be active. But when she was asked *why* she wasn't, she said because her kids were little. She said that is WHY she wasn't as active anymore. That would be an excuse in my book given that anyone who is active w/ kids will show you that the kids aren't a reason not to be active. The kids were *her* excuse not to be active.
""""An excuse is only needed for something that somebody SHOULD have done but doidn't""""" But she explained how she WAS very active prekids. However,because of the "little kids" it all came to a shreeching halt. She didn't say "now that we have little ones,we prefer to play parcheesi every single night instead of bikeriding". She specifically said it was because she had little kids that she was not active.
""""""But the people who do are not better"""""" Who posted that they were better? All I have seen posted was that it COULD be done. That little kids did NOT stop people from being active.
"""""and the people who don't are in no need of an excuse to explain why they don't."""" Only if the say that the REASON they are not active (and that they would be) is little kids are stopping them.
My dd is one who hates to go to bed, has a hard time falling asleep, etc. She goes to bed around 8 pm every night, but stays up reading, etc for sometimes as long as an hour. Or she'll come downstairs and say she isn't tired and I have to tell her to go back to bed. She hasn't napped since she was 2 y/o.
Yesterday was her first full day of school - first grade. Kindergarten was only a half-day and didn't tire her out at all. After she came home, she played at a neighbor's until dinner time, came home and didn't 15 mins of homework, then it was time to start our bedtime routine. Just before 8pm, I kissed her goodnight and went to put my baby to bed. I walked by 10 minutes later and dd was sound asleep. I went downstairs and told dh she must have been exhausted b/c I've never seen her fall asleep that quickly, even after spending 5 hours on the beach during vacation!
I don't think it will take her long to adjust, but I have a feeling when ds starts full day school, he will have a much longer period of adjustment b/c he tires much more easily.
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Really? I haven't gotten that impression at all. Active in what way? I've had the impression that her older ds is much more quiet than the average boy - more of a bookworm type. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but my 4 y/o is WAY more active than her 6 y/o. And I consider my ds pretty typical.
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