With more than one child finding ways of having some individual time with each child can be difficult. Its fairly easy to set up work time you can get one child to sit and write with you or do some reading but trying to get more fun things that they might want to do is tricky. I tried schedueling in 10 minutes each day with each child but it didn't work as 10 minutes might not be long enough and I could be sure at only 4yrs old little B would most definately need MUMMY!! in the middle of it.
Its took me a while but finally I think I've come up with the perfect solution. Saturdays normally we go to see my Mum & Dad for the day so I thought I could get them involved to help me. Luckily they are brilliant parents and were more than willing to help so we arranged for them to look after 2 children while I took the other off for a day out treat doing whatever that child wanted to do. As Lee is flexible with work if my parents can't do it for whatever reason Lee could take the day off and do the looking after so here goes...
S wanted to go to the countryside for her treat day, a walk with Mummy
in the great outdoors. How wonderful. We chose to walk over Higger Tor
in Derbyshire and across the Carls Wark.
It was a beautiful day
Higger Tor is a fabulous rock formation from the ice age and there are remnants of an old fort. It has an aura about the place as you climb over the huge boulders stacked up high on the hills.
We both were very excited to go S has my passion for the countryside and I was quite impressed that she chose to do a walk for her treat. So with plenty of supplies we set off from the car park and played boulder hopping all the way up to the top of Higger Tor
There are wonderful views all the way round and at this time of year the heather is becoming a deep purple, luckily I had thought ahead and put some pastels and artist pad in my rucksack for a stop and sketch break which she loved.
On the way back up from the valley we sat watching rock climbers and had
a go at some bouldering ourselves. Here is my spider monkey in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmmMFP4oAy8&feature=share&list=ULOmmMFP4oAy8
We had a fab first treat day, it was a real success, I enjoyed myself so much spending time together like this, we walked 3 miles and went at our own pace it was great. S was really inspired by the climbers, they chatted to her and shared chalk with her and some tips for climbing so she wants to come back and climb on her next treat day.
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