Comments on: More thoughts on work

By: Semicolon

Semicolon — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:17:06 +0000

[...] dolls. 19. Watch a familiar DVD dubbed in a foreign language. 20. Make a house of cookies. 21. Volunteer to help a neighbor for free—just because. 22. String beads on dental floss to make a necklace. 23. Listen to Peter and the Wolf and act it [...]

By: Semicolon

Semicolon — Sun, 28 May 2006 23:10:57 +0000

[...] 1. Build fairy houses in the backyard. 2. Start a nature scrapbook. 3. Draw pictures with chalk on the sidewalks. 4. Play chalk games. 5. Make mud pies and have a tea party. 6. Have a real tea party with some friends and tell stories. 7. Play with rice. 8. Make a yummy salad and eat it. 9. Paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. 10. Work a jigsaw puzzle. 11. Dance to your favorite music. 12. Get your bicycle out, clean it up, and get it ready for summer. 13. Practice folding a shirt. 14. Make a poster collage. 15. Make some playdough. 16. Preschool Paper Crafts 17. Mix 2 cups water with a little food coloring, add 6 cups of cornflour/cornstarch to make goop. (I hate it, but my urchins love it.) 18. Cut out and play paper dolls. 19. Watch a familiar DVD dubbed in a foreign language. 20. Make a house of cookies. 21. Volunteer to help a neighbor for free—just because. 22. String beads on dental floss to make a necklace. 23. Listen to Peter and the Wolf and act it out. 24. Make a milkshake or a smoothie. 25. Start this “childhood in a jar” project. 26. Make a lapbook. 27. Learn to sew. 28. Take one of Carmon’s writin’ suggestions. 29. Watch a Shakespeare play on video. [...]

By: kerri

kerri — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:05:30 +0000

My son would much rather go out on a cold day and nail fence or work on concrete with his papa, then to stay home with us girls and do math a n y d a y!

But, he still has to do his math when he gets home.

By: Firefly

Firefly — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:09:43 +0000

We have over twenty sugar maples in our yard. When can your dear little ones be here? I have two of my own, but they could use all the help they can get. Besides, they always take breaks to jump in the mountainous piles they accumulate. Slackers. :p

By: Jo in Orlando

Jo in Orlando — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:56:28 +0000

Have they come home yet?

By: molly

molly — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:09:46 +0000

By: Mrs. P.

Mrs. P. — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:04:34 +0000

Now that’s a gratifying mummy-moment, Amy!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:28:10 +0000

So, what you are saying is the drive to be done with school is the thing that drives man to work. There’s some really deep philosophy in that.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:16:20 +0000

Great idea! I’m going to have to try that and see if it work for us.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:53:18 +0000

You are doing something RIGHT Amy!!