I’m at the point in the summer where my children are really starting to get a little wild. For the oldest one, he’s bored. Funny since we’ve been busy that he should be bored. Nonetheless, he tells me he can’t find anything to do. He’s a little edgy too and has been talking back and getting snippy. Perhaps it’s the non-stop bickering between #2 and #3 or between #3 and #4. I think he feels like he needs to be the peacekeeper. It’s frustration. I’m frustrated too.
I purposely tried not to over-schedule and instead plan fun activities we would do together. They’ve had swimming and tennis lessons. We’ve pretty much lived in the water. Unfortunately, mist of their friends are in camps or away so when we don’t have plans, there’s really not many kids to hang out with. I remember as a child, summer would feel very long around early August. So I guess that they’d agree. In fact, just this morning, #2 told us that he hoped August would feel as long as July did.
The talking back and arguing though is getting on my nerves. I feel like I want to have a meltdown! But, I understand how they feel. What I’m trying to do is remain calm and offer them options to prevent from getting upset with one another. If I could just stop the baby from screaming!
Boy, I hear ya’! i have four boys too and we’ve hit that “after the vacation slump”. I just had to pull my middle son off of his older brother – and his fists were flying! I hate it when they get physical. We were packing to go to the lake, so how do I punish him without punishing the rest? I normally would do a lakeside-time-out, but he informed me already that he didn’t want to go there……
My 5 y/o wants to take tennis lessons. Is he too young?? My 5 y/o and 2 y/o boys like to bicker and it drives me insane! I turn into a werewolf really quickly, which I just hate! How am I supposed to run errands covered from head to toe in body hair??
My now almost 10 year old started tennis at 4. It was a great exercise for hand-eye develop. I highly recommend having kids take tennis. What’s great about it is that no matter what they do in life, tennis and golf are great sports to learn. They don’t need to excel in them, but to have an understanding is great. So much business goes on on the golf course or tennis courts. It’s social and it’s the kind of sport you can do until you’re 90.