Are you doing anything different with your kids next year?

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My son is 7. Next year I'm not having lots of kids at my house. I did it on the last day of term and I know high jinx and all that but they were so badly behaved. One lad strangled my son whilst his mother sat there and the other kept lifting up my husbands weight equipment. I've decided I dont mind doing 1 on 1 playdates but will try to stick to out of the house activities

Just me then

I don’t allow children in my home who can’t behave themselves so I completely agree with that. I don’t mind more friends round but that’s only in the summer when they’re playing the whole time in the garden and having lunch outside as a picnic. They don’t get to rampage around the house. Otherwise we also just do one friend round at a time.

It was so much hard work for me. The mums appeared oblivious too!

Ha I'm the opposite, next year I'm planning LOTS more playdates - I've got a 5yr old DD and as soon as we get one of her mates round it's like having no kids in the house at all, they take themselves off somewhere and entertain themselves and eachother for hours at a time. Much MUCH easier than just having the one kid in the house!

I am planning to change DD’s evening routine. We have got into a bad habit of her having a snacky dinner (healthy though!) in front of the TV during the week. We are moving to having dinner together at the table every night.

I’m also planning to give her more baths 😂 When she was little, she had bad eczema and the doctor said not to bathe her too often, so I only bathe her a few times a week, but her eczema is better now and I’m planning a bath every night from September !

I agree. But only with certain children. Certain little horrors will not be allowed back in my home again.

My ds is just starting Y2 (age 6) and this year I’m cutting down his attendance at after school club, which tends to wind him up a lot (not very well supervised).

Instead I’ve enrolled him in some after school activities - multi sports, Spanish, drama club, and art - which areactually cheaper because duration is shorter than ASC (£7-£8 instead of £20) so I can pick him up at 4.30 and then he’ll just snack and play at home afterwards until I finish work.
I’m hoping he will enjoy this and be more chilled overall.

I am also going to make sure that he practises some spellings 5 days a week - just a few each day. I left it too late with older dd and she is awful at spelling.

I am going to let my 7yr old dd stay up later, we have been blessed with a 7pm bedtime for ages but this summer she has been up much later and I actually want more time to spend with her after school. Also I am going to let school mum drama wash over me haha