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To be dreading the summer holidays

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EmptyBoxesss · 29/06/2025 18:35

I have a son I adore, more than anything, but I never know what to do with him. I really struggle with entertaining him! He’s 6. I take him swimming and to the park and on his bike and we do the library and crafting, but there are 12 hours in a day for 7 weeks! It’s so long I run out of ideas and I find it so hard. We will visit my family for a week but that’s 6 other weeks of the two of us and it’s so overwhelming. I’ll try and book in a couple of okay dates but I haven’t got links with many of the other mums to be honest, I’m trying to change this.

Is it just me? How do people keep their kids busy every day?

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Birch101 · 29/06/2025 18:46

Send him to clubs

Gymnastics, coding, swimming camps, forest schools, trampoling etc

Pick a project that will interest him and make goals around it, e.g. a project book on dinosaurs, reaearch at local library, use different art media to make pages for different types of dinosaurs, go to the natural history museum

Do a weekly cooking/baking class and then go and donate some of the goodies to a care home or local fete?

LadyKenya · 29/06/2025 18:45

Let him entertain himself. Get him some comics, so he can practise his reading, look at the pictures, colouring in books etc.

NapoleonsToe · 29/06/2025 18:45

Lots of professional football clubs run free events over the summer. Google Kelloggs football camps to find them.

Figgygal · 29/06/2025 18:41

Do you not work op?
I know that brings its own challenges in holidays but to be able to be that available in the holidays suggests you don't or maybe you work school/term time.

SunnySideDeepDown · 29/06/2025 18:40

Yep, it’s a LONG time! You’re not alone in loving their kids but dreading the holidays!

chatgptsbestmate · 29/06/2025 18:39

EmptyBoxesss · 29/06/2025 18:38

I can’t afford it

I can understand that.

Set up a replica holiday club at home and invite his friends over ?

chatgptsbestmate · 29/06/2025 18:38

I think making connections with other mums so that you can organise lots of play dates, is a good idea

EmptyBoxesss · 29/06/2025 18:38

chatgptsbestmate · 29/06/2025 18:37

Holiday club?

I can’t afford it

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chatgptsbestmate · 29/06/2025 18:37

Holiday club?

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