Stressing over summer break

Okay moms, summer is here and you will soon stop loading your little ones into the car every day of the week like you normally do and dropping them off at school where you are sure they will be using half of their day there and you can at least do one thing or the other before you pick them up again.

Lets not pretend too much, some of us actually look up to Monday, when our children will go off to school again and you will have little time to yourself either as a stay home mom, a part time working mom or even a full time mom.( maybe not too much for a mom that has more younger once that still stay home) But one or twice we have breathe that sigh of relieve when we drop them off.

Either because we want a break from the ones that can not stop chartering away asking every type of question that you can never imagine, or the ones that will not stop whining about one thing of the other, or the ones with a very strong personality and will challenge you about everything all day long if you let them, to say a few.

Now you are beginning to wonder what you are going to do when they are home all day all summer long and deep inside you it's almost like you are going crazy thinking of what to do, how to do it, when to do it. Checking out every advert on any activities for kids and hoping to get ones that you can afford so that your babies can enjoy their summer but most of all that you still remain your whole self by the time summer break ends.

Well, unlike many people will give advice on what to do that will make things okay, i don't think there are much you can do because those things will not go away and the most important thing is that you gave birth to them, they are yours and the will remain your even after summer break has ended. It's easier to say do this and this when some of the advice givers don't even have kids yet.

WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS

• Just relax, take the day as it comes and before you can say Jack Robinson, time is gone.
• Also try and do activities that they are interested in. When you engage them daily in things they really love to do, they are more excited and they are more in a relax mode.( Certify every activities first).
• Be involve with them by doing fun things together.
• Set goals for them, like reading some number of books for a particular period of time and seeing who read more, they will love it because children are competitive.
• Reward good behavior and it will motivate them to be good

I believe there are still more options out there but as you know i am not a professional when it comes to kids but one thing i am is that i am a MOTHER, and that counts. Thanks for reading and i hope you were able to relate to this a bit and gain something. See you soon like my 2 years old will always say.