holidays

Dads and separation - holiday activities with kids

School holidays are a great time to do stuff with your kids that otherwise you don't have time for (or that is difficult to organsie). Also, it's a time of the year when there are lots of special events on in most places. Most museums, parks or other public places (such as the library) will have a school holiday programme with activities, events and festivities for children of all ages.

But you don't even need to organise anything special for your kids to have a good time. If you have preschool children in a daycare centre you can pick them up early or even just turn up and play with your kids there. With older children you have even more options to do sports, music, outdoors acitivities, game playing, reading, etc as their physical and mental abilities develop.

Submitted by stefan on Mon, 05/12/2011 - 4:49pm

A Dad's Point of View - Summer Vacations are for Parents Too

Remembering Chevy Chase in those summer vacation movies reminds me of the fact that most so-called “family vacations” are, at best, vacations for the kids and torture for the parents. I’m generalizing, of course, but most generalizations as well as clichés, have a strong basis in truth. I stand by the proposition that we parents usually need a vacation after our family one, if only to recover and rest.

This summer my younger son, David, got to spend several weeks at the sleep- away camp he loves, while my older son, Will, is indulging his passion for rock ‘n’ roll at a Rock School where he’s taking drum lessons, and participating in numerous bands and concerts through the school. He’ll also be living, figuratively, in our garage with his own band, driving the nearby horses crazy, or am I mistaking their thrashing about as dancing?

Submitted by community on Mon, 17/08/2009 - 6:04pm