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.

Do you mean ever at all?

What a lovely thread! I still have a 6yo, so am quite lucky, but with my 13 yo, I would give her a massive, massive cuddle on the sofa, take her swimming, come home and have a picnic lunch with her and all her dolls, spend the afternoon videoing her doing make up and reading tutorials for her fictional viewers on You Tube, watch Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly together, play a board game badly, give her a bath and snuggle up with a book and cuddles until she falls asleep. Bliss.

Oh this thread make me feel guilty for wishing the time away. My eldest starts reception in September, my youngest is 2 and a bit of a terror and I've been looking forward to him getting his free nursery hours next Easter so they'd both be at school/nursery I feel awful now for ever thinking this as one day I will miss it . Youngest is such hard work though. My eldest has suspected asd but is so lovely and loveable. One of my favourite times with them both at home at the moment is dancing together "on the dance floor " (kitchen)

Take them to the fountains at Kings Cross and get them to run through.

When I was pregnant with my youngest, I would take my son (who was 2) to the local churchyard with a ball and throw it for him to fetch and bring back to me.

playing with bubbles in the garden then make a den

Im hiding in my bedroom crying right now. Such a touching thread!

Feed him his favourite food, sing songs, play with his train set.
Bath him, put fresh pj's on him and sit him on my lap, give all his fingers and toes a hundred kisses. Tickle him and make him giggle.
Listen to his sweet voice. Read him his favourite stories.
Santa's suit, a big day for little Jack.

Bliss!

Zoo or aquarium.

We still go, and he does still really love going, but that wonder and amazement that a three year old has is the most lovely thing every.

Awww OP this is the loveliest thread ❤️

Oh this thread make me feel guilty for wishing the time away.

Please don't feel guilty. As they say about the preschool age, 'the days are long but the years are short.' We're looking back from the other side, remembering the oh so lovely bits but not forgetting the not so lovely bits.

This. Those days when you were their everything for a short while was so lovely and I didn't treasure when I had the chance (she's 14 now)

hold her sticky hand and walk down to meet daddy from the train. watch her toddle towards him crying out happily " daddy"

she is 25 now.

Oh lord. Mine are actual adults.

we’d do painting in the morning. Then go to the library. Have a picnic for lunch.
watch a Disney film on the sofa cushions on the floor.
play loud music with pots and spoons while we bake some cakes and make dinner.
blow bubbles in the garden.
eat dinner together sitting at the table.
bit of TV while I tidy up.
Then 6.30 bath. snuggle up in bed for books. asleep by 7.30.
glass of wine and TV for me.

I loved the pre-school days best.

Go to the beach - looking back we didn't go enough.

@Star0Fire please don’t feel guilty. This thread was intended for that. I’ve found having a 1 and 2 year old incredibly hard and it’s the reason I stopped at two. If I could magic up another 3.5 year old I would though without hesitation.
as a previous poster said, we’re looking at it though the eyes of nostalgia and forgetting the monotony and sleepless nights and general slog.
And choosing to remember the cuddles and love and fun and laughter and innocence. Which is the best way

Build the actual biggest wooden railway, ever. Play with that all morning. Then a picnic and an afternoon at the sand / water park. Read all his favourite books after dinner and then go to sleep together. In fact, I might just try to wiggle that day in at the weekend as his dad is away. He's now 7. Thankfully he's still mainly enjoying such things we just seem to have so much other stuff to fir in!

We’d go to our favourite music class then meet granny for lunch. In the afternoon we meet up with their cousins and play in the garden or feed the ducks. After tea we go to the park and wait for daddy’s car to drive past on his way home from work.

After splashing in the bath and hiding under a towel we have lots of snuggles and stories before singing bedtime songs.

Gosh! This has made me really tearful. They are 19 and 21 now

My perfect day if my sons were young again...... a da out to the local town. Park, splash park, picnic lunch, feed the ducks then chips before they fall asleep on the drive home. Too tall now LoL

My rose tinted specs are trashed so I still remember the constant tantrums. If I had the day to spend with someone else’s preschooler who actually enjoyed days out I would go swimming with them somewhere fun. With extra elements to the pool like little slides and water fountains etc. I’d take a lovely big water float they could sit and then a delicious lunch after and if the weather was nice go to a really nice park to kick a ball around, blow huge bubbles, feed the ducks etc. Also maybe throw in a bus ride or similar.

'Hopefully off to uni in September'. That's another thread right there.😢

Gosh I’m only on page one and I’m getting emotional! What a brilliant idea for a thread!

my DS is 6 this year so we can still do a lot of this stuff but reading these replies is making me really want to cherish all of it. Thank you so much ♥️

So in spite of all the adverts telling us that parting with cash is the way to #MakeMemories, the best ones are free or low cost. Spending time makes the memories. There's a lesson in there somewhere!
Enjoying this nostalgia fest, thanks everyone for sharing.

This thread has made me cry. Mine are 23 and 17. I’d donate a kidney to have a day with them when they needed me 🥲

I have 3 children under 5 and this thread is making my emotional even though I'm still very much in this stage. Thank you all, I will make sure I treasure these moments a little bit more tomorrow.

I am going to take inspiration and do some of these days with my 4 year old and 5 month old. He's just turned 4 and it's hit me like a tonne of bricks how fast it's gone and how he's not a toddler anymore. I've been a bit sad about it despite the fact I'm only just starting it all over again with my baby. So I shall take inspiration, do some of these lovely suggestions and really soak it all in.

I know one day I'll be here saying they're teenagers and I miss them 😭