It's hard on the kids, who were used to spending at least an hour a day outdoors playing with each other every day. It's hard on me too, since now they and their noise and their mess are more under foot in the house.
Just time to adapt again, and get used to a more indoor life.
They are on the computers more, of course, but they are also playing more board games together. A friend loaned us a board game of Dungeons and Dragons, and that has been a huge hit. The kids also spent almost three days well occupied by creating a card game together that seems to be half a sort of pokemon game (all the boys cards) and half a fairy warrior game (all the girls cards) but the two self-created decks interact with each other. I think it was a masterpiece of cooperation.
It also calls for more "arts and crafts". A recent quick stop in our local bookstore produced two good finds: the Klutz petal people kit and an "instructional comic" called Welcome to Your Awesome Robot. So we are living in a sea of little fragile fairies and bits and bobs of cardboard and duct tape in our house at the moment.
How do you adjust to more indoor time for your kids? Any good rainy day activities?
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