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.

Spent the day in much the way described with my two toddlers, suddenly reflecting on the day very differently. Will try to cherish the ‘ordinary’ more and keep remembering it doesn’t last long. Great thread!

All nine are in their late 20s early 30s I would to have them all back to being toddlers again playing in the garden scrubbing them in the bath reading stories and tucking them in at bedtime. That time flies by and an extra day would be so lovely

What a lovely thread! I'd just like to go back to having those cute little pudgy arms round my neck. Teen DS is still happy to hug me, but I miss the cute little toddler hugs.

Someone once said, you’ll never know when it’s the last time you’ll push them on a swing, read them a story, do finger painting etc. I’m crying even more now…hope that made sense

Lovely thread. This is exactly why I retrained to teach preschool. We witness the magic age with almost all the benefits, maybe not so much the snuggles, but the silly chats about Peppa pig or bin lorries or how I got my boo boo and then after 3 hours send them home to whine and tantrum and refuse food on someone else's watch. Best job ever.

I'd go 'puddling' - that's going out after a downpour and playing with cars and trucks in the puddles or just jumping in them and squealing loudly! Followed by tipping the wellies out, stripping off most clothes on the doorstep and going upstairs for a lovely bath, all 3 at once!

Beautiful post, this really made we well up. I miss my Mum.

I so wish I'd read this thread when DD was toddling, she's 6 now and luckily we still get to do most of these things but I can feel things changing slightly, it's strange when you're no longer the centre of their world.

I'd potter about in the morning watching cbeebies while DD tried to help tidy and we'd have a pretend tea party. Stop around the local woods and a cafe lunch with cake. Back home for snuggles, stories, and den making. All the cuddles

Go to the farm and feed the goats and ducks. Have a picnic, play on the swings etc. Read stories, lay on our backs in the garden watching clouds and counting planes.
The great thing is I get to do all these things with dcs dcs, and it's lovely.

https://www.inspiremore.com/mothers-the-last-time-poem/

It has to be all the hugs and general physical affection. My boys (19 and 17 now) were real cuddlebugs as children. It used to be lovely to have them sitting on my knee while we read a story together.

LaMaG…that’s what i meant 😭😭😭

Such a beautiful, thought provoking and heart warming thread, thank you.

My daughter is off to school in September and I’m making the most of these next few months. It’s gone so very quickly. I’ve got these years ahead of me with my baby son, it’ll be different as hopefully no pandemic to navigate and I can share his development with his sister as well. I know my now teen steps say having a younger sibling has given them a chance to relive things they enjoyed as little ones.

We made pasta and sauce for dinner. I didn’t mention the flour going everywhere and cherished her pride in making her own food. We had a long cuddly bedtime. I’m counting my blessings.

I got so sentimental reading this I went to give my sleeping baby's chubby little cheek a great big kiss and woke him up, back to reality 😂

What are you doing to me??? 😭😭😭😭

This one always got me:

https://www.bumpbabyandyou.co.uk/baby/poem-my-baby-boy-me/

I've just been shopping for his interview suit with my 6ft tall 18 year old and he's treated me to a pizza hut for tea - and we were reminiscing about how much he and his sisters loved the playground when he was little. So, we'd go back and do that in the morning. Home to make cheese scones for lunch then a nap in front of Cbeebies. Brio trains in the afternoon, then fishfingers, potato waffles, baked beans and scrambled eggs off tea. Bath, then read the Gruffalo twice.

This thread is so lovely, it's making me cry but that's probably being 30 weeks pregnant with a 6.5 year old who's off on her first school camp tomorrow- it feels such a grown up thing for her to be doing 😥
I often wonder with things like social media whether I am doing enough, we dont have holidays abroad or heaps of expensive days out but what's so lovely about this post is how simple the obviously treasured days are once looking back on them, it's so nice to read things like trips to the park or Claires or library makes you realise all the cheaper days are just as important as the fancy ones.
I am lucky she still is like my little best friend but it makes me so emotional to think one day she will be teen with her own social life, one of the nicest mumsnet threads I've read, thank you OP x

Sorry - this is the full version

https://allpoetry.com/poem/326003-My-Baby-Boy-And-Me--For-the-twins--by-PrincessAlia420

Gahhh all these replies remind me of the song Slipping Through my Fingers (this is beautiful version)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdV1ydBoJ68&pp=ygUoZXRoYW4gaG9kZ2VzIHNsaXBwaW5nIHRocm91Z2ggbXkgZmluZ2Vycw%3D%3D

This is gorgeous. 🥺

i had two preschoolers during the first covid lockdown, and honestly it was just bliss. We pottered around the house, built things with duplo, built brio railways, we had a paddling pool and they used chalk to draw on the yard.

We went for a little walk every day, over the fields, down to the stream, collected sticks to throw in the stream, collected feathers & pine cones, wrote postcards to granny & grandad.

We watched Hey Duggee & Moana so many times (I still love it). We did long baths. Silly races (hop from one side of the room to the other, roll, skip etc). Lots of giddy games. I used to get all their pants and hide them for them to find, like and Easter egg hunt with pants. We had so much fun. I know it comes from a place of real privilege but my god it was the best time of my life.

That said I now live with two Taylor Swift super fans and we cruise round the countryside blasting her music and singing along. We go to cafes. They write me lovely cards telling me how much they love me. This might be the best time of my life too 😊

Ahh! I'd do some baking with them and be really really patient about it. Then we'd take the cakes to the park with the important teddy's and have a picnic. Then snuggle and watch cbeebies.
It was hard work but they were so snuggly and cute.

Lovely thread

This is such a lovely thread idea. My eldest is 13 and I'd love to go back to his preschool time for a day as I can't remember much of it - it passed in a blur looking after his baby brother. I'd spend the day at the farm looking at animals and tractors with him, holding his hand as we walked around and listening to him witter on about stuff. Lots of cuddles as I don't get those much from him any more and maybe a bus ride there and back as he used to love sitting on the top deck and watching everything go by.

All of the above, plus me being chill about it all rather than trying to get the boring stuff done as well. I hope to be a grandparent one day to do some f it again.
One thing that probably isn't so relevant these days is filming them doing everyday stuff and chats on camera. Lots of our home videos are nativity's or ballet shows and stuff like that but the ones we love are the silly chatty ones in the house.