Good Morning Spark Families!
I hope some of you got to jump into the Parentzmatter: The Quarantined Family webinar the other night. I really enjoyed the input and reminders that the guest speakers gave. I especially loved Johnathon Banks advice to schedule in Honors Dishes and AP Laundry, and that Parenting is a FULL CONTACT SPORT :)! Also listening to Dannah Gersh speak about “meatloaf” moments, gave some relief that we all have conflict in our lives no matter where we are in life, I loved that she said conflict is proof of connection. If you didn’t have a connection, didn’t care, you wouldn’t have a reason to fight or have conflict. How powerful to think of it like that. Seriously if you didn’t get a chance to see it check it out, there is sooooo much good stuff to glean from it, the video is still up at the link below! https://www.facebook.com/ParentzMatter/videos/248314282870665/
After watching that yesterday, we sat down together as a family, made up and implemented a schedule. It wasn’t easy or fun but we let the kids choose 1 thing to be put into the schedule. We wanted to give them ownership of it. It worked well for the most part. 🙂 With 4 kids its hard not to have disagreements and being cooped up means frustrations happen more often than not. I found myself escaping to the bathroom to collect myself a couple of times through out the day, any other mamas feel me there? Sometimes a self issued time out is needed, once we are calm we can help them be. Our schedule isn’t perfect by any means but it helped structure the day so that we didn’t have kids lost in electronics mindlessly playing video games and not engaging with family and school work. I am going to share ours just so you can see it doesn’t have to be extravagant or anything crazy, in all honesty simple is the easiest and more often than not the best course of action! Tomorrow afternoon after our video lesson I will share with you some resources we have found useful during this time!
JOIN US TONIGHT…6pm below is a hint!
