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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 606029" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>My ideas were more for if you are just sitting occasionally. I have a ton of time alone with kids these ages...lol. Trust me a 7 year old and an almost 2 year old can be a handful. The 7 year old gets extremely tired of lil sis bugging her. I used to make every weekend we had oldest Disney Grandparent time but we have put a stop to that. Yeah she has her own things here and we probably spoil her with having a tablet to play on but she can also play by herself. I do have to shoe her outside to play though most of the time. We practically have a park in my yard with swingset, sandbox, her bike, older little tykes car for the mouse and all that. Monkey can literally ride her bike on our property and do laps that take her about an 8th of a mile around. </p><p></p><p>If I was expecting someone to babysit everyday I wouldnt expect them to entertain them constantly. If you only sit once or twice a week, I think having a babysitter bag is a good idea. Special things they will do with you. It can be as simple as printing out some coloring pictures and you have a nice big box of special crayons. </p><p></p><p>One good outside thing for them to do is play kick the ball if they dont already have a bunch of stuff they do outside. You just keep a cheap plastic ball which you can pick up at walmart for 2 or 3 bucks and have them play a game of soccer. Or time them in running from one place to the other and if they can beat their times they get a prize. </p><p></p><p>I also think things like baking cookies, helping to make their own dinners, and oh...if they are girls here is a huge project that they should love. Well boys and girls should like it. Get some of that chocolate you melt in the microwave. They sell it in a container at walmart. Get some banana's and a box of strawberries. Have them make chocolate covered fruit. That is one of Monkey's favorite things to do in the kitchen. Its really easy too. Just cut the banana's up into about an inch and a half pieces and put them on a skewer and dip. The strawberries just need the stem cut off and then do the same thing with a skewer. We buy skewers at the local grocery store to make kabob's and there must be a hundred of them in the bag.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 606029, member: 1514"] My ideas were more for if you are just sitting occasionally. I have a ton of time alone with kids these ages...lol. Trust me a 7 year old and an almost 2 year old can be a handful. The 7 year old gets extremely tired of lil sis bugging her. I used to make every weekend we had oldest Disney Grandparent time but we have put a stop to that. Yeah she has her own things here and we probably spoil her with having a tablet to play on but she can also play by herself. I do have to shoe her outside to play though most of the time. We practically have a park in my yard with swingset, sandbox, her bike, older little tykes car for the mouse and all that. Monkey can literally ride her bike on our property and do laps that take her about an 8th of a mile around. If I was expecting someone to babysit everyday I wouldnt expect them to entertain them constantly. If you only sit once or twice a week, I think having a babysitter bag is a good idea. Special things they will do with you. It can be as simple as printing out some coloring pictures and you have a nice big box of special crayons. One good outside thing for them to do is play kick the ball if they dont already have a bunch of stuff they do outside. You just keep a cheap plastic ball which you can pick up at walmart for 2 or 3 bucks and have them play a game of soccer. Or time them in running from one place to the other and if they can beat their times they get a prize. I also think things like baking cookies, helping to make their own dinners, and oh...if they are girls here is a huge project that they should love. Well boys and girls should like it. Get some of that chocolate you melt in the microwave. They sell it in a container at walmart. Get some banana's and a box of strawberries. Have them make chocolate covered fruit. That is one of Monkey's favorite things to do in the kitchen. Its really easy too. Just cut the banana's up into about an inch and a half pieces and put them on a skewer and dip. The strawberries just need the stem cut off and then do the same thing with a skewer. We buy skewers at the local grocery store to make kabob's and there must be a hundred of them in the bag. [/QUOTE]
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