Daily family life
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Anonymous
OP is a bible thumping control freak. |
Anonymous
It's impossible to make a blanket statement like that without knowing how old the kids are, whether they are in aftercare or after school activities, what time works for family dinner etc . . . |
Anonymous
Tell us you have young kids without telling us you have young kids |
Anonymous
OP is clearly a troll. I generously rate this thread 4/10 troll bait. |
Anonymous
Either that or their kids go to some kind of niche private school that doesn't believe in homework, or homeschooled. Homeschoolers have less homework because there is more efficient use of teaching time during the day, not all these transitions and blocks of dead time. |
Anonymous
Says the parent whose kid shoots up schools |
Anonymous
Maybe but I think more likely OP has raging, untreated ADHD. Big ideas, no ability to execute, lost in the weeds. |
Anonymous
+1. I think she’s planning to implement all of these things tomorrow. |
Anonymous
| People are kind of weird about the Bible app. It’s like if you listen to Mark Wahlberg telling you to be nice to people and live with purpose, then you must be Carrie White’s mom. |
Anonymous
How do you define “young kids?” My 11 year old 5th grader routinely has 3 hours of homework/studying per night. Her parochial K-8 finishes at 3:15, she starts homework at 3:30, finishes at 6:30, and I serve dinner at 6:45. Two nights a week she has dance class after dinner. What’s wrong with her finishing her homework before dinner? Do you think she’s not working hard enough and should do more homework after dinner? Three hours seems fine to me. |
Anonymous
I would talk to my kid’s teacher about the amount of homework. But I have kids ages 11-17, and I don’t tell my older kids when to do their homework. I just don’t micromanage them like that. (We do actually listen to Fr Mike or the Halo app most days though!) |
Anonymous
My kids are clearly older than yours and go to different schools at different times and we are not religious, so 1-3 are out for us. My kid's are very active, so they don't strength train. We also don't have them do chores every day, but they do them consistently when it's on their schedule. I don't understand the difference between bedtime wind-down, bedtime routine, and hug good night. Again, my kids are in elementary and middle school, so maybe that's the difference. They get themselves ready for bed, read for a while, we say good-night. It's all one thing. We eat dinner together every night, they do homework every day they have it, they read a LOT every day, and they lay out their clothes the night before. I would never have them lay out all their clothes for the week on Sunday because I think that's unnecessary, but you do do. |
Anonymous
DP but why is an app necessary? My kids don't have a daily screen time routine, period. |
Anonymous
I’m not OP, but the app we use is an audio thing that I play on my phone over the car speaker or a Bluetooth speaker we keep the kitchen. It’s not like a game they play on a device. |
Anonymous
Got it, I was thinking it was something interactive. Yeah, I don't see this is any different from my kids listening to Million Bazillion or audio books. That's a very easy thing to do in the car. |