Parents of older children: if yuu had your Pre schooler back for one day what would you do? (Lighthearted feel good please)

[Thatbloomindog]

Inspired by the other thread about having a whole Pre children day to yourself. I’m asking those who are out of the small child trenches now, what they’d do with their pre schooler if they could have them back for a whole day.
My youngest starts school in September and gosh while I need the time to myself, I’m sure going to miss her and our carefree days pottering around together.

Go and feed the ducks, have an ice cream, hold my hand on a walk, bath them and when they're all clean and in fresh PJ's, fall asleep on my knee.

Following 🥹

Oh it would be so lovely to put him to bed at 7pm 🤣

Go to the park, have a picnic and feed the ducks, climb trees and have a snuggle on the sofa watching CBeebies
Make cakes and play in the garden.

Oh, we’d go to playgroup, then to Asda and I’d buy party sausages for lunch, then after a nap for us both and a bit of Night Garden we’d go to the park for the afternoon.
Nice little toddler tea, bath and stories and all tucked up in time for me to have a cup of tea and watch TV by 7:30.

This is my absolute favourite day. Sadly he’s 17 now 🤣

Oh I would so so love this 😭 I would make a picnic and sit in the park under a tree, enjoying their silly chatter and gazing at their darling little faces. I miss them!! Hard to really remember what it was all like now that they're teens.

Go to a little farm.
He's 11 now and would still bloody love it tbh!

Thousands of little kisses. Hide us both under a blanket. Tell her how much I love her. She's 41 now.

Go to the (nicer) park and let him run around with no shoes, just chubby little feet, and actually run around myself playing with him... and have lots of snuggles (my DS is still very affectionate, but I miss that dumpy toddler body).

Awwww I’m really treasuring these last couple of months before my youngest starts school. We have 1 weekday together just us two and I will miss it. We went to a pick your own farm yesterday, played in the little playground and sat on bench eating ice cream.

Brush her hair.

Go to the park, Waterstones, Claire's and Starbucks.

Come home and play libraries.

Take her to ballet in her pink tutu.

Meet daddy from the train and watch them beam when they catch sight of each other.

Bathe her and have her fall asleep next to me before carrying her to her own bed.

Gah! This is making me tearful!

Pour a large glass of something and remember it’s only for a day.

(DC1 was a non sleeping terror at this age.)

hold hands and look at stuff, answering there millions of questions, then read a story sitting on my knee with there giant heavy head resting on me. Have them run and fall into me. They’re still lovely kids but just being someone’s whole world is a really special feeling.

I'd buy the Lego tiger set, DS used to love Lego

Go swimming, have chips for lunch and home for a nap. Make scones together, and eat them after dinner in front of In the Night Garden. Bath and songs and stories and bed.
Teens are lovely too, but not as cute.

Ahh this is lovely, they are only little for such a short time.

Hold hands, picnic in the park, feed the ducks and push them on the baby swings.

Take him to the park and run after him on his bike. Go to the library and check out 20 picture books.

Not sure I’m emotionally resilient enough for this thread!! My youngest starts school in September and I’m feeling decidedly wobbly about it now the time is nearly here. I’ve found the baby and toddler years indescribably tough at times but oh, what I wouldn’t do to start it all again with the parenting skills I’ve acquired along the way and the knowledge that these years are in fact, fleeting 😭😭😭

Snuggle up and smell them. Lift them up. Answer their questions. Go for a drive and listen to them point out the cows. Then I'd probably just hang out and play at home... but in the house we have now, not the one I actually raised toddlers in. That was a bloody nightmare 😁

Can't cope with this today, my DD18 has just gone travelling for a year, I'd love to smell her hair while I read her a story at bedtime

Take a picnic to the beach and paddle in the sea to get soaking wet. Have an ice-cream from the van and sit on a bench in the sun. Bake wee fairy-cakes and then ruin them with too much garish icing. Face-painting. Get in the bath with her and let her wash my hair. Have lots of cuddles. My tiny girl is a huge teenager now with only a couple of years left of school.

What a nice thread.

Never introduce screens

Run, screaming!

But no, seriously, DD was a total whirlwind at that age - I've learned I am poorly suited to being a mum of little ones, the older DD gets the better IFAIAC. If she had been the type to enjoy a picnic and fall asleep on my knee I'd love to have done that, but she's always been a firecracker since the day she was born.

Build a spaceship out of cardboard boxes, take a picnic to the park and feed the birds and squirrels, go for a ride on the miniature steam railway, give them a bath and read them stories.

DH and I still get pangs for how cute they were, even though they never slept.

Go to the beach and jump over little waves.
Or if at home, do a bit of cooking together, eat, nap cuddled up.
Watch CBeebies before bedtime.
Agree with all the hand holding and carrying. I miss that.
But what I miss most of all is reading a story at bedtime and stroking DS forehead as he falls asleep.

He towers over me now.

Reading all these and feeling really grateful that I'm still 'in he trenches' with my 2yo and newborn.

Toddler is playing doctors with my legs and the newborn is contact napping on my chest. The house is a tip, breakfast bowls still discarded on the side and long forgotten lunch left on the table, Duplo and library books all strewn over the floor. But I love it. 🥰