Boredom Bucket
I've seen the 'bored' bucket idea online before but have disliked it because people generally come up with a huge list of chores kids can do when the fateful words "I'm bored" pop out of their mouths. Since I'm generally a grumpy mom by nature (I'm sure none of you believe me, but it's true) I like to give my kids every opportunity to have good memories of me. So I decided to change the boredom bucket up a little bit by adding fun things for the kids to do. Thus far it's been a smash hit! I suppose that means that I hear "Mom, I'm bored!" a little more often than most but usually it's accompanied by a twinkle in the eye and an upturn of the lips. The absolute plus side about this variation is that they don't whine when they have to do what's on their slip of paper. So basically it's been great fun for all of us. Now all I have to do is come up with MORE things to put in the bucket (it's only about 1...