Freelancers: Keep Your Kids Occupied On Homework Free Days (Sponsored)
If you are anything like me, you count on homework time to give you a couple of extra hours to get some work done. However there are sometimes days when the teacher seems not to be on your side and decides to let the kids go home without having any homework assignments. Now before you panic and just write that time off, here are some suggestions of things that you can do to keep your kids occupied when they don’t have any homework to do that day.
Chores- I am not advocating child labor here. But there is nothing wrong with them cleaning up their room or folding up their clothes. This is especially useful if one child has homework and the other one doesn’t.
Television – I know you hate the idea of having the tv babysit your kids. However, sometimes it does become a necessary evil sometimes. Especially when you have a tight deadline to finish. Explain to your kids that you have important work to finish and promise that you will spend some time with them when you can take a break.
Let them play outside – If you have a big backyard and another adult to supervise, kick them out of the house for a few hours. Let them run around and use up all of that energy. They’ll get to exercise and you’ll get hem out of your hair for a few hours so you can get some work done.
Let them play some games on the computer. Once again, I know some of you may be reluctant to allow your kids to play video games, but this is one great way to keep them occupied. If you are worried about the games being too violent, just make sure the games they play are age appropriate. One good classic game for kids to play is solitaire. You can get to the solitaire game by clicking on the word solitaire on this post. You can find more kids games by clicking on the phrase kids games in this post.
I know most of you chose to work from home so you could spend more time with your kids. That is a great goal and you can certainly do that. I just wanted to give you some tips to help you on those days when you can’t break away from the computer as easily as you would like. It is important to be able to spend time with your kids, but you have to be able to get something done on a timely manner as well. Just something to think about.
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