How often do you do these things?

[oneboysmama]

Just curious as to how often you ladies did these things:

1. Let your kids eat junk food
2. Have a pic nic
3. Go on a date
4. Visit a national trust fund
5. Take kids to play at the park

Junk food - in moderation, a McDonalds once a month or so I'll buy them one.
Picnics - lots when the weather is nice.
Date - once a month on pay day for a nice meal. Weekly coffee and pastry on a Sunday morning.
National trust - every 6 months or so.
Park - mine are old enough that they go themselves

1. Depends what junk food means, e.g. they have a biscuit or similar most days, fast food once a year as they don't like it.
2. Every weekend, and daily in school holidays, we take a packed lunch on trips out (in winter we eat in museum lunch rooms).
3. Once every couple of years, no childcare.
4. NT about once a year- no car.
5. Park - daily except in winter.

My son is 4.

• Let your kids eat junk food
My son is very picky his version of junk food would be some junk crisps or bacon, I'd say this is every weeks.
• Have a pic nic
Pretty much multiple times a week in summer and spring

• Go on a date
We never go out on a date really as we don't have childcare but we have home days every week or two weeks.

• Visit a national trust fund
Every month or so

• Take kids to play at the park
Multiple times a week sometimes daily

My son is autistic and quite set in what he likes which is open spaces and getting dirty haha

I wish I could visit a National Trust fund - need every penny I can get!

Kids are 6 and 2 -

Let your kids eat junk food - they’ll have a biscuit or something most days but fast food/fizzy drinks etc is very rare. We do homemade pizzas (or chilled ones from tesco) once a week.

Have a pic nic - most weekends in summer

Go on a date - god never, no babysitters

Visit a national trust fund - very very very rarely, locally there’s a much wider range of places to go than that (near the moors and Whitby etc)

Take kids to play at the park - pretty much every Sunday morning year round.

Mine are adults. looking back -

Let your kids eat junk food - occasionally.
Have a picnic - all throughout the summer.
Go on a date - never.
Visit a national trust fund - often.
Take kids to play at the park. Daily.

Mine are 6 and 3.

• Junk food every now and then, everything in moderation
• Have a picnic often in warmer months, probably every weekend if we're out and about over summer
• Go on a date very rarely, maybe a couple of times a year
• Visit a national trust - lots because I run one!
• Take kids to play at the park every weekend

When I had little preschoolers:

daily or almost daily junk food
picnics when we were out long enough
at playgrounds daily, sometimes 2x/day
dates never
National Trust: rarely, like 3-4x.year?

Junk food- in some form every day. Pizza (usually supermarket) is a staple. However McDonald’s/similar is rare.

picnics - lots in summer

playgrounds - lots in the past especially in summer but mine have grown out of most of them now

date - maybe 5/6 times a year when kids go to grandparents for a few days in the holidays

NT - we are members and have a few very locally. Not loads but quite a few times a year. We can just pop in for a bit of a walk though, doesn’t have to be a “day trip”. Family membership is about £100/year which is good value IMO.

DD is 17, so questions 1 and 5 are not relevant.
I don't do picnics, I don't like sitting on the floor.
Never visited a NT place, sounds like something old people do.
I'm very happily single, so no dates for me.

I will answer as to what I did when children were small.

Junk food, hardly ever but we did have Mc Donald’s on the motorway when travelling to see relatives.

Picnics very often, still do

Dates every couple of months.

National Trust couple times a year but other stuff like museums and aquariums So a family full day out about once a month.

Went to the park very often but we live a 10 minute walk from a huge park with a few acres.

Let your kids eat junk food - define junk food, but I’m not happy with their diet. Pizza once a week, chips twice this week!! (Once with salmon so that was ok; once with chicken nuggets play date request)

Have a pic nic - lots in the summer, once a week? Once next week as half term day out

Go on a date - ideally once a month but probably on once every 6-12 months

Visit a national trust fund - loads of free NT places round here (just pay for parking) so all the time. Never to a house though, yawn!

Take kids to play at the park - once a week

Let your kids eat junk food - whenever they want, these days, providing I know not to cook for them
Have a picnic - rarely
Go on a date - not for bloody ages
Visit a national trust fund - fund? NT properties, a few times a year
Take kids to play at the park - never - they're adults

All those things at least once a month apart from the date which is once in a blue moon

Let your kids eat junk food - depends what you mean by junk food, but very rarely as little kids, all bets are off once they reach the teen years.

Have a pic nic - if you mean eat a sandwich outside, multiple times a week in the summer. If you mean take a full picnic basket, plates etc to a beauty spot then very occasionally.

Go on a date - very, very rarely

Visit a national trust fund - never

Take kids to play at the park - in the summer everyday after school, in the winter on the few days where it's not too cold/wet. I am a bit weak willed about the park in the winter. Autumn and Spring somewhere in the middle, at least once a week after school probably.

• Let your kids eat junk food - depends what you mean by junk food, but most days if you mean frozen pizza/nuggets/ fish fingers as they have sensory issues/ arfid
• Have a pic nic - nearly every day in summer, never in winter.
• Go on a date- basically never
• Visit a national trust fund- once a year, maybe longer since covid
• Take kids to play at the park- nearly every day, but less in winter

Let your kids eat junk food - all the time, as long as they have eaten healthily to earn it. They love healthy food so never much of an issue letting them have a bit of junk after they have had their breakfasts, lunches, fruit and whatever
Have a picnic - a few times a year when the weather is nice we love eating out on our walks.
Go on a date - once every few months but we have plenty of fun in between that not to need to go on dates
Visit a national trust fund - few times a year
Take kids to play at the park - on average about once a month? More in the spring summer months

Kids are 9 and 11 and we have them half the time.

I think national Trust are giving out free passes at the moment for a day out of your choice

Let your kids eat junk food - depends what you mean by ‘junk’ DC are allowed some chocolate or sweets after dinner every night. I cook from scratch majority of time with one nuggets/chips meal a week and a takeaway about once a fortnight.

Have a pic nic - couple times a month when the weathers nice!

Go on a date - have a newborn so answer is never at the mo but before DC2 about once every couple of months.

Visit a national trust fund - all the time as we’re members

Take kids to play at the park - couple times a week in nice weather.

Let your kids eat junk food

A few times week

Have a pic nic

If we ever go anywhere we can’t afford to eat out. So if you mean a crap sandwich and a pack of adli knock off crips, then once a month or so

Go on a date

Never. No money to and no one to look after kids.

Visit a national trust fund

It’s the only thing we can do as dh got a yearly pass. Only 2 within affordable distance though.

Take kids to play at the park

Never. It’s full of big dogs, drug dealers and needles.

• Let your kids eat junk food

Once a week

• Have a pic nic
Outside 1-2 times a month in winter and once a week in the house
In the summer: nice days every possible day even if it's just in the garden

• Go on a date
Once a month me and husband
3-4 times a month with friends and the children too

• Visit a national trust fund
1-2 a week in the summer
Twice a month in winter

• Take kids to play at the park
Daily in rain wind or shine unless ill

1. By junk food I assume you mean a mcdonalds or similar, once a month, if that. We probably go to the chippy every few months too. We often have a cake in a cafe if out shopping at the weekend, I guess that could be considered junk too.

1. Picnics we have lots in the summer months and when we go on holiday. We'll often go for a drive/walk and take a picnic. Not something we do in the colder months though.

1. Dates are a thing of the past, we have 3 young children. It's not that we don't want to go on one, we are just never alone! I'm sure they'll reappear once the kids are older, we used to do things and dine out lots pre-kids.

1. National trust a few times a year, we haven't joined as we don't go enough times to make it worth while.

1. We take the kids to the park lots in dryer months, at least once at the weekend and sometimes in the evening during the lighter nights.

1 prob something each day ie a biscuit or whatever
2 take snacks or picnic most places
3 rarely a date
4 rarely a NT find them boring tbh
5 parks weekly winter more so summer

Junk food, mcds etc not often they don't really like it, crisps or biscuits most days it's all about balance.

Picnic: most weekends and more often in the summer.

Dates: never, no childcare and no money right now.

Parks: rarely we live rurally on our farm and they go pretty much free range and appear when hungry (often in dd2's case )

National Trust: sometimes in summer and autumn although we are more into castles or beaches and forests