posted by Leah.
Now, we all know the old standby’s like plopping them in front of the TV, computer and video games. We all also know that’s frowned upon on many levels…even though we all still kinda do it.
Brent came up with this magnificent game that requires us to simply lay there and snuggle one child at a time. It gets them both exercise and keeps them engaged for up to an hour!
Now I must mention, if you’re the type of person who is anal and needs your children to play games “properly”, this isn’t the game for you. You might as well plop them back in front of barney and get back to that good book of yours, or your internet boyfriend…or whatever you do when they’re there….I do many “non-things” when mine are there.
So first you find a cozy spot in your child’s room in the dark. Have the children go downstairs and count. Once they reach the number (they chose it…sometimes Silas counts past 100) they yell “READY OR NOT HERE I COME!!” or Ikey says “REWEE OR NAWT HEEERREE I C…kdfn” then you hear the “thump thump thump” of their cute little feet coming towards you. They come in to the dark room and you yell “ROAR”. They squeal and run back downstairs to do it all over again.
We usually let the kids go one at a time while the other “hides” with us…which means we get a snuggle. If both kids go together bad things happen…like someone gets pushed down the stairs or Ikey gets a knife off the counter top and impales Silas with it…or Silas feeds Ikey dog food…(none of that has actually ever happened…cuz we make them go one at a time).
When laying there waiting, and the wait can be a very long time (Ikey gets distracted), you can snuggle and snuffle your child as much as you want to…because it’s a “game” so they just lay there with you. You can also just close your eyes and snooze. I enjoy whispering sweet nothing’s into their ears and trying to manipulate them into kissing me…along with the snoozing bit.
Now you can let them go together, sometimes one of us zones out on the couch to make sure no blood, fire or death happens when they come downstairs. Or Sometimes Brent and I hide together and we get to sometimes even make out when playing with only one child…which is always fun.
There you have it…the laziest way to engage your children….almost easier than flicking on that TV!!
Awesome! I love this game. I wouldn’t have worked with con, no no no. But the hiding and sleeping and making out sounds fun
These are the games and times the boys will remember and what they need to grow and be creative and inter-dependent and love and be loved…I’m getting all misty here.
ha ha ha you’re cute. I wonder if they’ll roll their eyes when they remember our family music time…they have a blast but they’re so going to think it’s dorky in a few years lol. We do it almost nightly.
Holding your kids is a wonderful play time…doing hamily music, hey I was just telling someone the other day about the video that you osted resently doing just that and how I love it.
What hapn’s if you fall asleep while laying all stealth-like in the dark? That’d be me!!!
well every minute or so you have a child leaping on you and yelling so I’m pretty sure sleep wont happen.