Here are 20 things you can do indoors on days when you're all cooped up and ready to go nuts.
- Suggest 50+ things to do while your kids shoot all of them down.
- Let them play games on your phone until even they're sick of it.
- Explain 150 times why you can't go to the park today.
- Ask them to help you clean the bathroom, ensuring that you get 15 minutes of uninterrupted time to yourself.
- Politely decline their requests to watch a show on the iPad every 7 minutes. All day long.
- Search the fridge for some cheese to go with that whine.
- Look at the clock and calculate how many hours, minutes, and seconds until bedtime.
- Start narrating your kids' fights in your best WWE announcer voice instead of trying to break them up.
- Cry.
- Surf the Internet for ideas of fun things to do while your kids wail and rend their garments in boredom.
- Play "Hobbits" and have four snacks between each meal.
- Clean up a ridiculously messy activity you found on Pinterest that your kids lost interest in after 6 minutes.
- Repeatedly warn your son that it's not a good idea to practice parkour on the sofa.
- Console him after bouncing off the sofa and doing a face plant on the coffee table.
- Discover all the things the kids have destroyed around the house and not told you about.
- Lead the children in a choral reading of Lord of the Flies.
- Text your spouse every 5-10 minutes to see when they're coming home.
- Settle sibling disputes by yelling from inside the bathroom.
- Ask rhetorical questions like "How did this get broken?" "Who didn't flush the toilet?" and "Why doesn't anyone around here listen to me anymore?"
- Throw the last cookie on the table and pretend you're an ancient Roman watching the gladiator games at the Colosseum.
My apologies if you came here from Pinterest seeking helpful ideas. Good luck to you, you're going to need it.
LOL! "Surf the Internet for ideas of fun things to do while your kids wail and rend their garments in boredom."
ReplyDeleteYour posts always make my day! So funny.
ReplyDeletehahah love this...I came for some ideas and am leaving with a giggle!! I like the Hobbit one xx #thetruthabout
ReplyDeleteI have definitely experienced #13 and #14 with your son! The first time being when he was 18 months old
ReplyDeleteHehe, this cracked me up! This is definitely my reality :D #thetruthabout
ReplyDeleteLove this! I've cried. I usually tell them to read if they're bored. Then I get yelled at.
ReplyDeleteThis is like the perfect antidote to all those perky "Things to do with kids" posts Jenny - you really have hit every single nail on the head here. Man I hate winter! #thetruthabout
ReplyDeleteI've been coming to realize lately that I'm sort of the human opposite of Pinterest.
DeleteI was SURE you weren't going to have my personal favorite on this list, but there it is - #18. Old faithful.
ReplyDeletePrinting the others and taping to the fridge for future reference. Well done.
This post will help so many. Let's tell it like it is a bit more often
ReplyDeleteHahaha! This is brilliant. I LOVE the Hobbit idea!! #TheTruthAbout
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha this is real life! I've honestly been thinking hard about moving to Florida or Hawaii!
ReplyDeleteMegan- Fl isn't any better. We BEG them to go outside. But they have to be inside.
ReplyDeleteSo they can whine and cry about how bored they are, and nothing to eat, and "I can't do it!"
And #19!!! We only have 2 little people here who don't flush! But it's never either one of them! I think we need to install a "who didn't flush this time" security camera!!