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Sno Cones after swimming
My Bag of Tricks: Room Time
How do I keep my sanity? How do I get dinner fixed? What are some tried and true methods I have learned over the past few years of parenting? In my bag of tricks is ROOM TIME !! Almost every day around 5:00 pm, I send my boys to their rooms for some alone time. I leave them with special toys they haven't seen in awhile or a box set aside for special times like this. Here are few examples of our Room Time boxes. (Nothing great, but when YOU make the items in the boxes special, your kids will think they are special, too!) Box 1: Coloring books and crayons Box 2: Stationary, markers, stickers, etc. Box 3: My old coupon box with expired coupons, sticky notes, and a bag of colored pens and highlighters for writing a "grocery list." (I can only trust my 5 year old with this box...the other 2 would probably draw all over the walls/carpet/themselves.) Item 1: Clock puzzle Box 4: Sea shells that Mimi and Grandbob brought back from the beach Item 2: Truck Puzzle Book Box 5: Easy pu...
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