Hello - I'm wondering how other families of school-aged kids structure their weekends? Do you have a routine you follow from week to week? How do you balance work and play?
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Hello - I'm wondering how other families of school-aged kids structure their weekends? Do you have a routine you follow from week to week? How do you balance work and play?
Our weekends have no structure because there are usually different things to do. If there is nothing planned then we tend to have a lazy morning and try to do an activity in the afternoon - something simple like the park/bushwalk/river. I am stuck for ideas when the weather is bad.
Same as Art. Nothing if I can help it lol.
Gymnastics takes up a large portion of our Saturday arvo, but it means we can hang out in our PJs most of the morning doing nothing.
The kids know I expect them to clean their rooms over the weekend sometime.
We are pretty isolated here with less access to stuff to do that city people have, but that suits me.
No structure. We used to do everything. But it really did get too much. The kids suffered. We suffered. So we have a more relaxed outlook these days. Again. I love it. I look forward to every moment of family time as its so easy. But that's what we like. Nothing against structure if that's your thing. We just find less stress is best.
No structure here but only one child so less running around to do. She used to do gymnastics which was 12 hours a week training and then four hours on about 8 weekends for competitions.
No longer do that so weekends are very free apart from a Sunday morning commitment but always plenty to do. We are lucky to be out the door by 12 on a Saturday which we love.
I think it is important to have relaxation time but would like it more if there were less electronic devices involved!
So far we have avoided any must do activities every week end.
What we aim for is one day at home, normally a Sunday. As we live out of town, there is no such thing as ducking out for 5 minutes to get something, it takes at least an hour.
Saturday is normally when we go to the Library and do other running around, plus the shopping if I have not done it earlier in the week.
At home time is not structured. Sometimes we have things we want to do or need to do (such as cleaning or gardening), often we aim for a quiet afternoon.
We try not to have anything specific planned for weekends as I like to have it as relaxation time. That said, DH works some weekends, as does eldest DD and sometimes I work weekends as well. I try not to, as I really enjoy spending time with the girls. We usually do stuff around the house, gardening, home maintenance, housework, but we do it as a team and make it fun! We try to spend a couple of hours each weekend doing something fun out of the house, shopping, going to the beach, but lately that hasn't been happening. In footy season, eldest and youngest DD are usually at the footy every weekend!
No structure here. The only thing that happens that is a weekly occurrence is my DH going to his mothers for lunch. Kids and I are generally home all weekend, doing what we want when we want. Like weekdays though they do have a structured time for computer.
Astrid, I like your point about needing an at-home day. I also think we need some going-out-days to ours. Our problem is that we do a lot of the regular, domestic, sports stuff but not so good at getting out and about to different things. ie, we are all driving each other nuts with boredom. I appreciate the unstructured time, especially when it's the middle of the year and it's all happening, but it would be nice to incorporate some more variety too.