Anyone have a daily schedule that is working well for your children this summer?

[Anonymous]

I have elementary age children and struggling to find the right balance between outdoor activities, summer school work and reading, chores and screen time. Does anyone have a rough schedule or time limits the is working well?

[Anonymous]

We have school work in the mornings, usually just an hour or so. Afterwards is a snack and some free play/reading while I work, unless my husband is free and then it's a walk or something outside. Lunch, then a quiet activity, and then outdoors and then screen time. Dinner, then some kind of family activity. Chores aren't a separate time -- beds are made in the morning, trash taken out as needed, dishwasher unloaded as needed, table set before meals, and we clean up toys and the like throughout the day.

[Anonymous]

9 am - be up, dressed, bed made, breakfasted
9-10 - do something for your brain
10-noon - do something for your body outside
12pm - 2pm - lunch, clean up, prep for dinner (chop veg, set table, etc.) and read
2pm - one kid reads, one kid does an art project
3pm - switch
4pm - one kid outside, one kid practices piano
4:30 - switch
5pm - go with parent to walk dog
6pm - make & eat dinner
7:30 - shower/bath pjs
8pm - watch Netflix with parents
8:30 or 9 - go to sleep

[Anonymous]

10-12 go to local pool

Lunch

Clean room / chores / do a few summer workbook pages then I make them do

Allow screen time for no more than 2 hours

Usually free play outside / dinner / free play outside

They are indoors during the hottest time.

[Anonymous]

Morning walk with dog.
Breakfast.
Music practice for one, Latin for the other.
Lunch.
Chores: today it was helping set up the portable A/C unit.
Second music practice, reading in native language for the other.
Exercise.
Quick music recap.
Dinner, with movie or board games.
Walk with dog with older child.

Video games and reading or whatever else they want is interspersed in all of this.

Soon this schedule will change because the older one will take his school' summer classes, and the younger one's music practices will have to accommodate them.

[Anonymous]

I have two elementary aged kids and here are our rough weekday schedule:
8:30 am to 9:00 am: get up and ready for breakfast
9:00 am to 9:30 am: breakfast
9:30 to 10:00 am: reading and free time
10:00 am to 11:00 am: summer study time
11:00 am to noon: outdoor playtime
noon to 1:00 pm: lunch hour
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: reading time/screen time
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm study time/reading time
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm outdoor water playtime
4:30 to 5:00 pm: free play time
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm: dinner time
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm: family outdoor time
7:30 pm to 8:00 pm: family story time
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: TV time
9:00 pm to 9:30 pm: bedtime

[Anonymous]

Kids are 6-13.

wake-up-8:00am: watch TV and snuggle

8:00-8:45: Middle kids and I go running

9:00: breakfast/morning chores
- make beds, bring down laundry
- unload dishwasher
- put in a load of laundry
- water the garden

10:00: kids goof off for a while. I usually read or talk to my mom for a little while.

11:00: tell the kids they need to stop goofing off and do some math and practice music. I usually play a game with my youngest.

12:00: I run to the store to grab anything we need for dinner. I fold the load of laundry.

1:00: I work in the other room. Kids make lunch, eat, and clean up.

2:00: I'm still working. Kids usually watch TV, but sometimes attempt to murder each other. Sometimes the attempted murder is regarding control of the TV remote.

4:00: I finish up work. Take the kids out to the pool or to play with the hose in the backyard.

6:00: back inside to shower. The middle kids and I make dinner. My oldest might ride his bike around the neighborhood.

7:00: DH gets home. We eat.

7:30: Kids play outside with DH. I listen to a podcast and clean up after dinner.

8:30: I make everyone pick up for 10 minutes. We watch TV (again).

9:30: Kids upstairs to bed. I read them a story. (Right now we are reading The Secret Garden)

10:00: Kids sleeping. DH is usually already asleep. I might talk to my sister in California for a little bit, then I go to bed.

[Anonymous]

This is what we're doing for 10 yr old twins:

8am-11am Free time (riding bikes, playing outside, art projects)

11-12pm Math (summer IXL assignments and practice, which is usually Prodigy or a workbook)

12-1pm lunch, free time

1-1:30ish Practice instruments

1:30-2:30pm Read something and/or work on summer reading assignments

2:30-5pm Free time/chores/Nintendo/outside

5-6pm Dinner

6-7pm Free time

7-8:30 showers, TV/movie with parents or free time

8:30-9 read in bed

9pm bedtime

DD12 is doing a virtual ballet thing in the mornings/early afternoon and joins the twins with whatever they're doing when she's done. She gets an extra hour of free time after they go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are 6-13.

wake-up-8:00am: watch TV and snuggle

8:00-8:45: Middle kids and I go running

9:00: breakfast/morning chores
- make beds, bring down laundry
- unload dishwasher
- put in a load of laundry
- water the garden

10:00: kids goof off for a while. I usually read or talk to my mom for a little while.

11:00: tell the kids they need to stop goofing off and do some math and practice music. I usually play a game with my youngest.

12:00: I run to the store to grab anything we need for dinner. I fold the load of laundry.

1:00: I work in the other room. Kids make lunch, eat, and clean up.

2:00: I'm still working. Kids usually watch TV, but sometimes attempt to murder each other. Sometimes the attempted murder is regarding control of the TV remote.

4:00: I finish up work. Take the kids out to the pool or to play with the hose in the backyard.

6:00: back inside to shower. The middle kids and I make dinner. My oldest might ride his bike around the neighborhood.

7:00: DH gets home. We eat.

7:30: Kids play outside with DH. I listen to a podcast and clean up after dinner.

8:30: I make everyone pick up for 10 minutes. We watch TV (again).

9:30: Kids upstairs to bed. I read them a story. (Right now we are reading The Secret Garden)

10:00: Kids sleeping. DH is usually already asleep. I might talk to my sister in California for a little bit, then I go to bed.

You have a daily schedule and yet you can't get organized enough to go to the grocery store less than once a day?!?

[Anonymous]

Varies, but right now, for one 11 year old boy:

- Wakes up around 9:30, eats something light (no one here is big on breakfast).
- Watches 1 documentary (1 hour) in the morning (from a list we assign -- history, science, culture, space, money management, etc...just your general PBS or Disney+ NatGeo stuff). We ask him to take a few short notes to discuss at dinner, and he's been leading the discussions for about a week. It's lovely!
- Sometimes a sports lesson 2x/week (with 1 other kid, or sometimes just the coach).
- Reading
- Will occasionally accompany me on a walk (I go 1 hour per morning)
- He often makes it himself (at least for him). Stuff like ramen or pasta. I encourage him to slice up a cucumber sometimes for some roughage.
- usually some chores like trash/dishwasher/laundry related stuff (if not now in the morning)
- More reading
- Legos or puzzles
- Summer math sheet
- Sitting around doing who knows what
- 2-3 is Fortnite time with friends online
- sometimes watching videos or on computer (at DR table one for supervision)
- goes outside to play soccer or use inflatable pool or chat with neighbors
- Dinner with family
- 7-8 more Fortnite with friends online
- not huge no tv but has been watching with me in evening
- sometimes sets up distanced thing in the yard with friend for a few hours in the evening
- will begrudgingly play instrument with dad, usually at night, because he can stay up late that way
- maybe once a week we go to the grocery store or to visit grandparents or drop off stuff at goodwill (get out of house in the car for a few hours)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10-12 go to local pool

Lunch

Clean room / chores / do a few summer workbook pages then I make them do

Allow screen time for no more than 2 hours

Usually free play outside / dinner / free play outside

They are indoors during the hottest time.

Oh, how I wish we had a pool to go to! so jealous

[Anonymous]

First thing in the morning, right after breakfast, DH straps out two-year-old in a backpack carrier and runs while our 6.5 yr old scooters, bikes or runs.

6.5 yr old has a morning online class (this week is about writing)

Play and read time until lunch.

Little one naps and 6.5 gets his hour of National Geographic ( new obsession).

He has an afternoon online class.

I take the kids to the backyard for play until dinner.

Dinner, FaceTime with parents or former nanny and bed.

DH and I take turns throughout the day but he gets up at 3:30 AM to get four hours of work in before the kids get up and I work all evening until after 10. It’s hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are 6-13.

wake-up-8:00am: watch TV and snuggle

8:00-8:45: Middle kids and I go running

9:00: breakfast/morning chores
- make beds, bring down laundry
- unload dishwasher
- put in a load of laundry
- water the garden

10:00: kids goof off for a while. I usually read or talk to my mom for a little while.

11:00: tell the kids they need to stop goofing off and do some math and practice music. I usually play a game with my youngest.

12:00: I run to the store to grab anything we need for dinner. I fold the load of laundry.

1:00: I work in the other room. Kids make lunch, eat, and clean up.

2:00: I'm still working. Kids usually watch TV, but sometimes attempt to murder each other. Sometimes the attempted murder is regarding control of the TV remote.

4:00: I finish up work. Take the kids out to the pool or to play with the hose in the backyard.

6:00: back inside to shower. The middle kids and I make dinner. My oldest might ride his bike around the neighborhood.

7:00: DH gets home. We eat.

7:30: Kids play outside with DH. I listen to a podcast and clean up after dinner.

8:30: I make everyone pick up for 10 minutes. We watch TV (again).

9:30: Kids upstairs to bed. I read them a story. (Right now we are reading The Secret Garden)

10:00: Kids sleeping. DH is usually already asleep. I might talk to my sister in California for a little bit, then I go to bed.

You have a daily schedule and yet you can't get organized enough to go to the grocery store less than once a day?!?

I can. I made a meal plan, wrote out a grocery list, went to the store, got my car washed, and bought gas once a week for 600 weeks.

Now, my kids are old enough that I can leave them on their own for 20 minutes, and I run to the store every day.

[Anonymous]

these are so funny, because they are not really schedules.

it is like wake up, eat, read, clean, goof off, read, eat, math, play, eat, play, sleep. and mix up the order here and there.

my kids do this:
wake up, eat, screen time, practice something, read something, eat, exercise in some way, eat, sleep.

[Anonymous]

Back to the lists of privilege we go, it seems...