I have four dc. I think I’m very lucky personality wise that I am thriving in lockdown. For me this is the easy part and the return to normal will be the hard part. I feel sinking dread when anyone mentions easing lockdown.
I say that not to show off but just to highlight that it’s pure luck for some of us that we are finding it easy, it’s not some supreme act of will or being better at coping. It would be easy to read lists of things people are doing and feel depressed not to be getting joy from those things? I hope I’m making sense.
Anyway, four dc. We get up in a relaxed manner and don’t get going properly til mid morning. I might play a board game with them while I drink a coffee or several. They might play in the garden or with toys. The secondary age one doesn’t surface til nearly lunchtime.
I’m mainly playing with dc and doing home ed type things with them. Couple of focused tasks, bit of art and craft, some time to go through the older ones’ work and encourage them to answer fully and check answers.
We walk the dogs all together for at least an hour.
Play a board game or two. Quite often watch a film all together in the evening. Sometimes I just read my book alongside the man reading theirs but they do chatter!
We’re doing our own thing schoolwork wise (apart from the secondary age one who is following what the school send and I’m supporting him to do it but supplementing it a bit). Lots of free play, baking, cooking, board games. It sounds very Waltons but they do bicker!! But I would honestly do this forever given the choice. It’s just down to personality. I find the demands of the outside world and rushing around stressful.
I chat to my friends via message a lot. I don’t reallyzoom or Skype but the kids have.