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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 31767" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>I hope it wasn't taken that I was criticizing? "In fact, due to my sincere admiration for your</p><p>dedication, I hesitate to even hint at a criticism. I guess due</p><p>to the separations it is " ??</p><p></p><p>I understand difficult children who need to be supervised, who need direction etc and who cannot be left to their own devices, I was just thinking maybe kt could provide input for the evenings activities? (subject to moms veto power) </p><p>And I did not mean send her off on her own...just maybe not have everything scheduled and preplanned? Maybe some paper rock scissors, thumb wars, lets see what might pop into our minds......see what sounds good at the moment? I guess I was also thinking that could possibly reduce anxiety, ---- not having a plan that might derail? and it might help grow the ability to ummmmm....learn to um........be responsible (at least partly) for learning how to fill their own time? (subject again, to moms veto power) "down time" so to speak- with supervision and your presence. </p><p></p><p>When I take son to docs and it is him and me at RMH or a hotel, just the 2 of us......in unfamiliar surroundings, we have slowly learned how to amuse ourself without doing much of anything at all. Sometimes we talk about funny little stories of when him or his sisters were doing something funny or silly, sometimes we play tic tac toe, sometimes we play games with an order of french fries, seeing whose is longest or most twisty or how many can we stack before they fall.........sometimes we simply sit in the same room and just talk about whatever pops into our heads. Becuz the neighborhood around RMH is such a bad bad part of the city and becuz so many of our appts have been during really bad weather times, we often get stuck indoors at RMH. And becuz we have to park 3 blocks away, I seldom permit him to bring much with us. Sometimes there are other kids there, often there isn't, or they are too sick to play with us........and at RMH no child under age 18 is allowed to be even in any room, not even bathroom, without the parent in the room with them. So- sometimes we do homeschooling, sometimes we simply look at each other, (LOL) and sometimes we figure out what to do as we go. (and it is the same in the car for the 5 hour each way trip- sometimes we sing, sometimes we watch license plates, sometimes he plays gameboy while I drive..........we are together, but, it is not planned out etc)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 31767, member: 1697"] I hope it wasn't taken that I was criticizing? "In fact, due to my sincere admiration for your dedication, I hesitate to even hint at a criticism. I guess due to the separations it is " ?? I understand difficult children who need to be supervised, who need direction etc and who cannot be left to their own devices, I was just thinking maybe kt could provide input for the evenings activities? (subject to moms veto power) And I did not mean send her off on her own...just maybe not have everything scheduled and preplanned? Maybe some paper rock scissors, thumb wars, lets see what might pop into our minds......see what sounds good at the moment? I guess I was also thinking that could possibly reduce anxiety, ---- not having a plan that might derail? and it might help grow the ability to ummmmm....learn to um........be responsible (at least partly) for learning how to fill their own time? (subject again, to moms veto power) "down time" so to speak- with supervision and your presence. When I take son to docs and it is him and me at RMH or a hotel, just the 2 of us......in unfamiliar surroundings, we have slowly learned how to amuse ourself without doing much of anything at all. Sometimes we talk about funny little stories of when him or his sisters were doing something funny or silly, sometimes we play tic tac toe, sometimes we play games with an order of french fries, seeing whose is longest or most twisty or how many can we stack before they fall.........sometimes we simply sit in the same room and just talk about whatever pops into our heads. Becuz the neighborhood around RMH is such a bad bad part of the city and becuz so many of our appts have been during really bad weather times, we often get stuck indoors at RMH. And becuz we have to park 3 blocks away, I seldom permit him to bring much with us. Sometimes there are other kids there, often there isn't, or they are too sick to play with us........and at RMH no child under age 18 is allowed to be even in any room, not even bathroom, without the parent in the room with them. So- sometimes we do homeschooling, sometimes we simply look at each other, (LOL) and sometimes we figure out what to do as we go. (and it is the same in the car for the 5 hour each way trip- sometimes we sing, sometimes we watch license plates, sometimes he plays gameboy while I drive..........we are together, but, it is not planned out etc) [/QUOTE]
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