To stay out of the house all day with my children?

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In the house, they become whingey, silly, make a mess and generally I’m tearing my hair out.

Out of the house they are mostly lovely kids although the three year old is testing me.

Staying out is a habit I got into when DH was wfh as it was an unpleasant atmosphere but I just generally find it easier out and about. Is anyone else the same?

I force outings because although my 5yo would happily stay in all the time, he is much better behaved when we are out. It's healthier too.

I'm with you, outside is so much easier for me, indoors they're feral , outside I can't hear them if I send them far enough away ...in the summer I'm usually pulling them out of the sea at 9/10 at night, we take a bbq and cold box and just stay till people are ready for bed! In days I don't drive and don't want to spend we camp up over a park, invite everyone, mass picnic and park dinner, few beers ... god I want the summer back! I do also stay out late in the winter, forests or parks or beaches anything but indoors!

Always out when my dc were little. I found it easier.

I found it easier at home with my 3. I didn't have a car though, so that probably made a difference.

YANBU. I basically did this for a few years - it worked for me! And it's not forever, they get to a point where they can be at home without melting your head.

I couldn't stay in with my dc. My ds when little was the tazmanian devil if cooped up. I also was very poor so we walked everywhere. Some of my favourite memories of when dc were little were of us just walking, holding hands and making up stories.

Omg yes! Always out of the house, particularly when they were little.

I know a lot of people hate taking the kids shopping but I used to love it. Give them a shopping list and get them to find the items, learn the numbers with the costs etc. if it took hours, so what? It was better than cleaning up the mess in the house for the 57th time that day!

Thank goodness it's not just me that thinks this. Mine are lovely and well behaved out and feral and whiney at home... I've no idea why.

I was a fan of going out as much as possible with mine. However, while my first born loved to be out and about, then along came the second when he was 3 and even as a tiny baby this homebird was very unsettled (tearful and whiny) when away from home. As he got older and could talk, he would always ask to go home not long after we left, would cry because we were going out. Was hard to balance the needs of both of them. As older kids, they are the same, given the choice my homebird likes to stay home and bake, paint, etc and my explorer child always asks to go out.