All of my GC are ferried to various activities and Saturdays are a nightmare. Sadie has swimming, riding, dancing. Joe has swimming & games club, Ben has swimming, games club and Acting club. Sunday Joe does rugby. During the week they have various play dates and clubs. Joe and Sadie go to bed quite late especially on a Friday & Saturday but Ben is usually in bed by 7.30. I remember having constant battles with my boys about bed times. Because two were roughly the same age and the eldest was a good year older the eldest wanted to go to bed later than the others and they used to constantly argue about it. We always tried to get them to go up at the same time but would quite often have to go up there and tell them off for yelling to each other from the bedrooms. We offered to put them all in one bedroom once just to keep the noise down but they didn't like that idea!
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I have just come across this LG, my lot squabble over "daft" things, if i leave the room you can guarantee it will sound like a school yard, i do say why can i not leave yous'e in a room for 5 minutes your not babies,....then I get the "it was him or her", i just shut the lot of them up and say "I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW", but i was putting it down to being "like a parent to them" if that makes sense, mine would never have done that to there grandparents, but maybe it's because we are all now "more full on grandparents"...
Saying that i took the 4 older ones out shopping into town yesterday, E was very quiet, held my hand, she looked shattered, when i met up with her dad, he said "what's up with her, she looks shattered" she was, but they go to bed with the TV on, i told him to turn it off but he said they go mad and wont go to bed....i just shut up, well i do now...
let them all get on with it, i wouldn't like to be their neighbours...
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Thats one thing that does please me, none of my GC have TV's in their bedrooms, I have always believed a childs bedroom should be a place for rest and quiet. At 13 & 11 eldest now get 30 minutes reading time if they want at bedtime. M and T still have story time with Mum or Dad."What doesn't kill us,makes us stronger."Comment
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Thank goodness my child minding days are over at one time I used to have 4 little boys between 6mths and 8yrs during school holidays every Tues/Wednesday when DD first went back to work the two biggest would spar off each other all day long and had me worn out I would have rather have spent my days at work myself some times but you have to help your DCs out with childcare don't you and it wasn't all stressful we did have some wonderful days which we can even remember to this day,my eldest DGS (24) always gives me a hug and tells me how he enjoyed our days together when he was little.Keep Calm,You're FabulousComment
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Glam - I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's very hard work looking after GCs, but the good bits make up for it.
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
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There's some good advice here.
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That made interesting reading, will test out a few of the tips."What doesn't kill us,makes us stronger."Comment
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