Comments on: Managing the circus (plus the TBT scorecard) https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/managing-the-circus-plus-the-tbt-scorecard/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 27 May 2022 15:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/managing-the-circus-plus-the-tbt-scorecard/#comment-353608 Tue, 24 May 2022 12:39:19 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18584#comment-353608 In reply to Cb.

@Cb – the tent sounds nice! And yes, sometimes kids can distract each other. Or sometimes they amplify each others’ moaning. It’s hard to predict…

]]> By: Cb https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/managing-the-circus-plus-the-tbt-scorecard/#comment-353191 Mon, 23 May 2022 14:29:12 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18584#comment-353191 A hammock! We’ve been debating an outdoor sofa but the one we want hasn’t come back into stock, but I think we’d get a lot of use out of a double hammock, even into the autumn with a cozy blanket. This weekend, my son and I left my husband to the painting (there is much swearing involved…particularly as he ran out of paint halfway through) and pitched a tent up in the woods (a little Aldi den kit) and read books for 3 hours. We finished the final half of fantastic mr fox and then a 200 page book (kids book, but still….). It was an absolute delight.

Today was a teacher training day so we invited a friend to go with us to the zoo and it turns out parents of multiple kids are right! 2 kids is sometimes easier than 1, especially when they are close in age (nearly 5 and just turned 6). The zoo is really hilly and I suspect there would have been much more moaning if we just had my son.

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