How Much Free Time Do You Give Per Day?

[Momof4]

Give yourself a break! You are all doing great and the children are all doing great. That is what I realized. We have a few outside mornings every week, a few mornings to discuss our letter and number and theme of the week with crafts involved, stories, songs and silly extras.

We don't have to be super-women and we are not even the 1st line (parents), we are the 2nd line you know? I've calmed down and relaxed about this so much over the past few years after the first graduates from my program started JK and are doing so great. Our repititive stories/songs/letters/numbers do work and it all comes out in the end but I just think we worry too much and really don't have to do that.

[Cadillac]

Give yourself a break! You are all doing great and the children are all doing great.

I've calmed down and relaxed about this so much over the past few years after the first

I'm starting to relax too. I used to spend hours on the computer every night planning, then I created a theme based program and spent months completing it. I tried to do a theme each week (trying to complete EVERY activity) and realized how thin I was stretching myself. now my themes are every two weeks. I plan all my activities quickly every other sunday since the program is completed and if the kids are too busy having fun to do an organized game I let them play. we'll do it later, or not at all. As I tell my parents, structure is introduced, but its not the be all and end all.

I see how intelligent my kids are. The parents and I are doing great with these kids.

[fruitloop]

Along the same lines of playfelt. I find that learning through play is the best way to have it. I WANT the kids to be kids. The majority of our day is free play, and I have toddlers and preschoolers.

Ditto, I'm like Playfelt too where a lot of our time is free play or outside play with some scheduled activities like arts/crafts, circle time, play doh, etc. thrown in there. I love being outside so we go outside usually twice a day.