Quarantine and keeping the kids busy

[littleblackheart]

1 minute ago, Azincourt said:

together

We can't do much of that, as I've recently found out. We have to stay away from each other as best we can. Really not easy at all with 2 kids.

[Azincourt]

I'm sorry about that.  If there are several computers in your household, you could always try playing video games together if your kids are old enough for them.

[littleblackheart]

That's a good idea, thank you. I was hoping to avoid too much screen time but now feel like we'll have to use it to our advantage! 

[Foxhall]

Art work maybe/ painting statues,keep them amused for a while

[littleblackheart]

3 minutes ago, Foxhall said:

painting statues

I like that. I'm sure after a while even my teenager will want to do something other than play on his console.

 

I might even look for a 'fortnite' theme art project!

[maintainsub]

I have a list of activities which i found in Pinterest, you can check it out too

[Gaeta]

Littleblackheart how is your son doing?

[littleblackheart]

36 minutes ago, Gaeta said:

Littleblackheart how is your son doing?

Really lovely of you to ask, thank you Gaeta.

 

He's mostly fine, now; he has a tiny bit of cough but nothing like the first 3 days. Literally non stop, day and night. He was saying it felt like a stampede on his chest. No appetite, high temperature.  

 

He was meant to self-isolate but obviously impossible to keep away from him as his mother. 

 

He's now terrified to go out in case he's still contagious, even though he now could. The only place he feels safe now is his bedroom on his own (he has Asperger's also, so this has affected him in various ways).

 

Still, I'm very grateful his symptoms were mild.

 

Quarantine itself is not something I'd want to do again in a hurry, tbh. The kids have been great; I was the one going loopy for the lack of fresh air. Confinement will be a step up for us!

 

 How is your teenager dealing with it?

Edited March 26, 2020 by littleblackheart

[Gaeta]

Awww poor kid, he will come around slowly with no pressure. Did he have any medicine to control the fever, cough? 

My teen girl tends to make jokes about it then in quiet moments she'll ask me if we're gonna be ok, what's gonna happen to us, etc. I reasure her the best I can. The tricky thing is  before she was given to me, in the past years, her mother had brainwashed her to beleive the end of the world was in 2020. Even on NYE we had to reassure her we would not die at midnight. For the last 18 months we worked hard to deprogram that thinking and now we're hit with this...so she did ask if this was the end of the world her mother talked about. 

 

 

[littleblackheart]

Hot drinks for the cough (a lot of hot milk and honey) and only paracetamol for the rest. That's what we were advised to do.

 

Wow, your girl seems to have had a very complicated past. At least now she has a home where she can feel safe. That's what we need most in these mad times.

[Haydn]

We have a daily photography competition, around the house and the garden.

 

Example.

Something yellow

Shaded

Action

Reflection

There`s a prize, which i have won everyday! (Only kidding)

 

With their friends, they have set up a different hairstyle everyday challenge (Over ZOOM)

 

They have school work etc and then we let them go gaming..... We have relaxed online time completely during this period.

But i am starting to climb the walls!

[littleblackheart]

3 hours ago, Haydn said:

We have a daily photography competition, around the house and the garden

Love this!! I'm definitely pinching this idea.

 

3 hours ago, Haydn said:

But i am starting to climb the walls!

Yes, this is going to be a looooooooong spring / summer.