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 - 5:24pm
"Most kids are perfectly capable of expending a great deal of energy and being very active without playing soccer, going skiing, swimming, or doing martial arts." Of course. Only we hear no evidence of that occurring whatsoever - only statements that they do virtually nothing active as a family, and statements, without any explanation, her kids will certainly have no interest in any sports whatsoever and that she expects them to be thrashed for at least half a semester by full-day school. You do the math.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:26pm

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.

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Registered: 12-10-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:29pm

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.

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:31pm

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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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:34pm

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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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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:36pm
Yep, I agree. I'm going through it now with my 1st grader. A child who is never tired. And she fell asleep w/in minutes of getting into bed last night!
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:37pm
It's not olympics. And it there has been an attempt at logic. The simple fact is a person here said something couldn't be accomplished *because* of kids. Others have pointed out that by their own experience and proof that *kids* and *little* ones at that have nothing to do with it. I saw suggestions and examples being offered. Not criticism.
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:39pm
Last Friday (at the end of the 1st week of school) he went to bed on his own at 6:30... !!!
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:46pm
Please. The entire tone here is that the only "happening" family is an "active" family. As defined by 24/7 dedication to official "active" activities.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Fri, 09-02-2005 - 5:48pm
I get the part about "can't because of the kids" and all. But how about the overall sense that a certain level of activity is some kind of holy grail? That it's even connected to how tired kids do or don't get going to school? Sounds like a beer commercial. Blech.

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