Burning Kids' Energy in This Cold?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just get proper clothing for playing outside.

My kids were utterly uninterested in freezing while not being able to do much because most of our yard melted before the wintry mix on Sunday so now there's basically blades of grass sticking up between ice. They're decently creative kids but the cold plus the fact that they'd have to come up with something that's not typical snow activities to do was too much for them to come up with.

Grateful for PE class today!

???

I just cannot relate to people like this. Blades of grass. Dear Lord. How will your kids cope?

My kids are teens and young adults now, but bundled up, they were able to do all the things they usually do outside. Run around with a ball, find interesting stones, play with sticks, play with the dog, play make-believe while running around...

Your kids just stand around whining because they need someone to create an organized play activity?!?!

Maybe that's what it sounds like, but no.

Normally when it's not freezing they find whatever standing water they can and turn it into soup and play complex games of make believe.

When there's snow on the ground they sled, build forts, and play make believe.

Yesterday it wasn't obvious what make believe they could play outside, so they continued with the complex magnatile town populated with various figurines they had been doing all weekend, then moved onto figurines in kinetic sand and playdough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just get proper clothing for playing outside.

My kids were utterly uninterested in freezing while not being able to do much because most of our yard melted before the wintry mix on Sunday so now there's basically blades of grass sticking up between ice. They're decently creative kids but the cold plus the fact that they'd have to come up with something that's not typical snow activities to do was too much for them to come up with.

Grateful for PE class today!

Wow this is one weird family

[Anonymous]

I'm a big "it's not too cold, you're just not wearing enough clothes!" person, but even I start to get tired of it by February. I can feel my kids starting to tire of it to. It's just not as fun to play on the playground and go for walks all bundled up when it's 20 degrees outside, especially when it's been cold for two months. Plus, we're walking to and from school every day, so by the weekends, we're a bit tapped on walking around outside.

Honestly, we do hit those indoor play places at this time of year. We live in Columbia Heights, so we're close to Magic Ground above the Target there. We went one day this weekend, and we'll probably go 2 more times in February. We hadn't been since... last February, ha. We'll probably do the Children's Museum one day even though it's pricey. Those are two things we would never do outside of late Jan/Feb.

We'll hit all the best museums for kids (Natural History, Museum of the American Indian). There's also been a lot more indoor roughhousing/couch jumping/running from room to room, and I'm fine with that as long as they're being somewhat careful and not too loud. Yesterday, I just let them both jump on my bed for 15 mins.

Kids are 3 and 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just get proper clothing for playing outside.

Do you mean crocs and shorts with a Tshirt? My kids get really hot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just get proper clothing for playing outside.

Do you mean crocs and shorts with a Tshirt? My kids get really hot.

Buttt why

[Anonymous]

Roller skating in the house and at rink

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Roller skating in the house and at rink

?

[Anonymous]

My son has special needs and hates the snow due to sensory issues and walking challenges. BUT, he always wants to be on the go. So I take him to the mall so we can walk, I take him on the Metro to the National Building Museum, to bounce, climbing, and rec centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just get proper clothing for playing outside.

My kids were utterly uninterested in freezing while not being able to do much because most of our yard melted before the wintry mix on Sunday so now there's basically blades of grass sticking up between ice. They're decently creative kids but the cold plus the fact that they'd have to come up with something that's not typical snow activities to do was too much for them to come up with.

Grateful for PE class today!

Um, take walks? Hikes? Play tag? Play catch? Hello?

YOU want to pull out a leather glove and throw a ball in this weather? Wow.

PP here and we're a softball family. We play a LOT of catch. But hard pass on catch in this weather. Seriously. My hand stings enough sitting on a bucket catching for my kid doing pitching practice indoors right now thanks.

You are so obtuse. Who said baseball? You can’t catch a damn nerf football with gloves on? You are so rigid and uncreativd it’s no wonder your kids don’t know how to play with no instructions.