With the coming of the summer
season the next concern of parents with small kids will be the acquisition
or building of outdoor
playhouses as a way of keeping the children occupied
in the next few months, when they will be out of school for a long
break. The parents most likely have their monies ready now to buy
knock down types of childrens
playhouse kits, easily assembled and set up in one’s
yard, where the kids will be safe while at play during the daylight
hours.
The moms especially will be talking among
themselves and planning on the activities for their kids, as they
will be in the forefront of things as the husbands will still be
away at work. The husbands can share this problem of the kids’
summer schedules at most only on weekends.
It will be a practical thing for moms especially
those who are just neighbors to make possible arrangements for the
kids to rotate playing in the children
playhouse of different homes. The arrangement can perhaps
include the rotation of moms to serve as guardian of the day for
kids’ families participating in such kind of agreements to
keep kids of several families busy in one place or house at any
one time. This will leave the other moms not assigned this guardian
duty, free to do their groceries and attend to other tasks related
to normal housekeeping.
Should the moms want to check on their
kids while they are in the malls buying their household needs, they
can always call the mom on duty on their cell phones, nowadays a
common gadget everyone carries around anywhere. This way the moms
would be talking to each other as if they are just conversing face
to face, and regularly consulting with one another as the day progresses.
Compared to a mom singly overseeing her
kids in the house on practically for almost fourteen waking hours
every day, this cooperative kind of arrangement between neighbors
lessen the “frustration” load of every mom participant.
At least she gets a break during the hours when her kids are in
the neighboring playhouses
for children under the care of that day’s mom
guardian for the day.
This arrangement also promotes closer camaraderie
among neighbors who tend to behave as just one big family, helping
one another on this and that problem normally confronting any family.
The moms can share tips and techniques on the running of households,
including sharing of information on where to buy their household
needs at lower prices. For the budget conscious mother, this will
be of great help.
Another problem they could be consulting
with one another will be the health problems kids normally acquire
as they grow up. The moms could always exchange information on which
doctor to run to in case a child gets sick of any illness. This arrangement on the participative
use of the wooden
playhouses of neighbors is possible in many other neighborhoods,
resulting in the moms’ having more relaxed free times for
themselves. That will mean less harassed, and maybe healthier moms,
all because of this idea of sharing the use of the children’s
play houses with one another.
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