Kids Activities Can Blend With The Magic of Family Fun

Kids Activities Can fit in with family life.

It has often been said that kids are the most creative creatures on Planet Earth. Well, they may well be – but they can also be the biggest pain up the butt!

And the pain can start from day one, ask any mother. After all the hoopla is over and the praises are sung, then comes the really hard work for Mom. Diapers changed every hour and maybe two hours if she is lucky. Then there comes the wake-up call which starts around midnight and continues intermittently till dawn. Dad sleeps in the other bedroom "Because I have an important meeting tomorrow and I have to be awake for some hours and coffee doesn't cut it." So bleary-eyed Mom has to get the other kids off to school, make sure their lunch is packed and their hair looks reasonable but would not pass any lower grade kids inspection.

You are feeling yuk because you've had no sleep for the past 48 hours, you have to keep the house clean so there's that chore to do. Then comes the march to the store to pick up provisions for the next few days. You've got no help at all and if the older kids who are around 7, 9 and 11 they should muscle-in and do their bit to take the load off your shoulders. Hey, but do they? You've asked them millions of times to do this or that and they just yawn as if tomorrow is another day. Life really sucks sometimes and nobody seems to care. What to do with the kids? Well, switch on the TV or let them watch a movie as you have about 250 DVD's collected over the past few years (and some are pirated, but who cares?) as long as it can keep the kids occupied while you take a break.

Your new baby Jena starts to cry and you wonder if its hunger, sleep or a poop change. Yeah, it smells like it and you changed the mite's bum only half an hour ago. You shrug and think you might be able to get away with it for just another half hour. You then toss that thought right out of your mind, other mothers would not do it so why should you?

The other three kids now come home from school and they are hungry. Their first trip is to the fridge where there's lots of yummy stuff to snack on – especially the sugary eats. It gives them a 'high' and so the fun begins. They start fighting as two of them gang up on the younger one. There's a helluva racket going on and Baby Jena starts to ball to increase the decibel count to around 250. Your head is beginning to pound and you need a little space from all the noise and activity.

You calm the three kids down by threatening them with extinction but immediately soften with "Go and watch one of your favorite movies." All three yell with delight. But soon a squabble begins as they can not decide on what movie to watch.

You are tired, you have a headache, the TV is blaring and baby Jena starts to howl, she's hungry and Mom is a bit dry for breast feeding and Jena hates off-the-shelf stuff. Wouldn't you?

Don't make a rod for your own back. In other words, don't do something that is likely to cause problems for you in the future. Give the kids something to do that they have a passion for. There are countless activities for kids of all ages you can find on the internet. Kids crafts and science projects are one of the most well-loved from among the common selection of kids activities. Do a search and keep your kids active and your pounding headache will vanish. Go Here for Family Fun: http://tinyurl.com/l7lt6t

Hard Work Putting Together my Family Fun Website

So it has been some time since I last wrote anything here. That is not because I am lazy although I like to loaf once in a while. Nope, I've been working flat out on my website, getting to know HTML code, putting together one minute movies I make for YouTube and writing up content for my webpages. That chews up many hours in the day!

My website target is to load at least one page a day which includes not only the writing but also getting my photos edited in Photoshop, checking the code, loading the page/s up and then checking it in various browsers. I am sure a lot of you know how much time it takes to put a 500-700 word content page together - especially webmasters.

With all this work I am pleased to say my unique visitor count is going up gradually and I think that has to do with interesting content.

I put a new page in today "How to Draw Animals" even though my website is more about Family Fun. These how-to-draw lesson are aimed at young children and families so parents can guide their kids to more creative interests rather than watching the tube.

My sister Shirley who lives in South Africa sent me these pics today, they are soooo good I thought you might like to see them here: Sorry, when I uploaded them Google gave me an error message so it will have to wait until the next posting.

Please write some comments here if you get a chance to see my website. It is not really cool at the moment but it will be as I climb out of the learning curve!