Chatting over a coffee without interruptions is a thing of the past for mothers with young children. Does that mean ’doing coffee’ stops? Of course not! My sister and I often meet at a park with take-away coffee. We keep our children busy doing a nature hunt, gathering and bringing back bits and pieces they’ve found around us. It keeps their hands and minds busy, in a positive way, so we can catch up.
Try asking questions:
Can you find me a stick? ** Oh, I think we need a rock now. ** Can you find 10 leaves?
Children love it, and Mums can snatch snippets of talk between treasure finds. It’s what Mums do, isn’t it?
“Wise mamas don’t give up the things they loved pre-kids, they just find new ways of doing them!” — Cath (SquiggleMum)
Take it home idea from Mon: The kids could make a collage out of the things they’ve collected when they get home as part of their recount of their day out. Lots of fun with glue!
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What a great idea! The kids could even make a collage out of the things they’ve collected when they get home as part of their recount of their day out. Lots of fun with glue!
Love it Mon… You MUST be a teacher lol
@Mon,
I love this idea too – I’ll have to remember that one!
I agree Kelly. Wise mamas don’t give up the things they loved pre-kids, they just find new ways of doing them!!
Perfectly put Cath. In fact, quoteable. lol. Going to update the post now…
You might also like to try some open ended questions! I was having a chat to a gifted and talented specialist on Thursday and she was encouraging me to provide questions for children that have more than one answer. For exampe…
You’re looking down. What’s up??
Love this Bon… you have to tell me more about that…
This is fun, we do something like this with our Brownie Guides here, a scavenger nature hunt or sometimes they have to find things starting with different letters. I loved these kind of things when I was a kid.
Have a lovely day,
Jade
Me too Jade, it’s one of the things I remember fondly about my childhood.
Oh, how I need a coffee stop. If only we had a little friend to do this with … and a mumma to share the coffee with!
I’d love to have coffee if you were closer!
And also a good way to avoid those unimpressed looks from fellow coffee shop-goers who don’t have children!
HA Jenny — so, so true.
We meet in the park on a regular gathering… with a flask! The kids play happily and we chat happily.
Last week they all found treasure (broken jewellery etc)
I’m liking the idea of a nature hunt…
Ah, yes… I should do a flask sometime and save myself some money…
Another great strategy Kelly. I love Squigglemum’s quote too.
Yeah, I loved it too… so I went back and included it in the post
We do this and put all of our ‘treasures’ into a big tub to make stone soup
Stone soup… YUM!
Looks like a nice relaxing way to spend the afternoon
Yes, it was!
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