day 2

So my husband was like, this is just like when the strikes where happening.  I begged to differ.  The strikes where like this:

Day 1:  You working at home with a five year old.  Can go outside.

Day 2:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old.  Can go outside.

Day 3:  You working at home.  Can go outside.

Day 4:  You working at home with a three year old.  Can go outside.

Day 5:  You working at home.  Can go outside.

Some combination of the above for an indefinite amount of time. 

This would be what lock down would be like:

Day 1:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old. Cannot go outside. 

Day 2:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old. Cannot go outside. 

Day 3:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old. Cannot go outside. 

Day 4:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old. Cannot go outside. 

Day 5:  You working at home with a five year old and a three year old. Cannot go outside. 

Repeat for at least two weeks. 

So basically you never get a break from your kids.   Not only that you’re expected to work while you take care of them.  I wasn’t sure how this was possible without plopping your kids in front of the t.v. all day which basically is what happened on Day 1 due to all the uncertainty and food hording going on. 

My kids are awake ten hours a day.  Subtract meals and bath and that means I have to fill six hours.  The average duration of a child’s attention span varies from two to five minutes for each year of their age. This means my five year old daughter’s attention span is ten to twenty-five minutes.  My three year old son’s attention span is six to fifteen minutes.  Our daughter’s teacher had given us assignments for her to do during the lock down.  There were four of them.  That wouldn’t fill a half a day.  

And remember that I’m supposed to be doing eight hours of work each day.  Oh and no one can go outside. 

Good thing is that my kids are pretty good at entertaining themselves so I let them do that until one of the following happens:

-        They do something that can permanently damage property or each other  

-        They fight and can’t work it out that the noise caused by fighting is distracting/attracting unwanted attention from neighbors/cops

-        They run around like headless chickens

-        They ask for t.v.

-        They are completely quiet (this one is the most alarming)

Once one of the above happens I intervene with an activity.  Today’s activities included Pictionary, baking muffins, drawing, singing, and picking up groceries.  Total hours of t.v. watched:  0

I’m pretty proud.  Even if my daughter drew this today:

She said it was a rabbit in prison.