Keeping kids busy on Shabbat, How do you keep your kids busy on Shabbat? |
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 Jul 15 2008, 06:30 PM
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I am the father of three children (ages 10, 8, and 5) and my wife and I are having trouble keeping the kids busy on Shabbat. In this world of electronics, TV, etc, the kids find this "down time" very difficult. Any tips on how to keep children busy on Shabbat is greatly appreciated.
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Jul 15 2008, 06:32 PM
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Give them stacks of candy if they play outside. This way they get all sugared up and spent the afternoon running up and down the block yelling and screaming.
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Jul 15 2008, 06:34 PM
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Jul 15 2008, 06:37 PM
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QUOTE (YUL89YYZ @ Jul 15 2008, 07:30 PM)  I am the father of three children (ages 10, 8, and 5) and my wife and I are having trouble keeping the kids busy on Shabbat. In this world of electronics, TV, etc, the kids find this "down time" very difficult. Any tips on how to keep children busy on Shabbat is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Richard take 'em to the park. get together with another family with similarly aged kids. pay the ten-year old to watch the 8- and 5- year old while you sleep*. board games. puppet shows. tell 'em to prepare a puppet show and to practice it among themselves 24 times first. tell them you don't think they can run up and down the stairs 100 times. let them prepare seudat shelishit. * in a halachically permissible psak of convenience type of way |
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Jul 15 2008, 06:39 PM
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QUOTE (Gretchen @ Jul 15 2008, 07:34 PM) ball oy, on shabbos koydesh? QUOTE parks What if they see other kids picking up leaves, rachmana litzlan? QUOTE you can even try playing reading games, like (meatballs and spaghetti) what is that?
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Jul 15 2008, 06:44 PM
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Jul 15 2008, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE (melech @ Jul 15 2008, 07:37 PM) tell them you don't think they can run up and down the stairs 100 times. :rolf: I needed that. you guys are really a riot today! -------------------- "well has beruria spoken"
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Jul 15 2008, 06:45 PM
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QUOTE (Gretchen @ Jul 15 2008, 07:44 PM) "What are leaves?" wonders the Brooklyn gal. 
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Jul 15 2008, 06:47 PM
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 grannylicious Group: Members Posts: 3,490 Joined: 23-December 04 From: anywhere there's wifi Member No.: 947 |
QUOTE (melech @ Jul 16 2008, 12:37 AM) take 'em to the park. get together with another family with similarly aged kids. pay the ten-year old to watch the 8- and 5- year old while you sleep*. board games. puppet shows. tell 'em to prepare a puppet show and to practice it among themselves 24 times first. tell them you don't think they can run up and down the stairs 100 times. let them prepare seudat shelishit. * in a halachically permissible psak of convenience type of way Take them to the park: you want to sleep don't you? Running up and down the stairs: same answer as ^ I just think it's sad that the kids of today have no idea what to do with themselves if they can't watch tv or play computer games. My kids would play out in the garden with various garden toys, or the older ones would organize some kind of long winded show or circus they had to perform in; the rehearsals took all afternoon and then they would present it to us when we woke up. -------------------- "Mommy, is this the house where we are allowed to swing on the chairs, or the house where we're not allowed to swing on the chairs?"
- My three year old granddaughter. There is being a real father, and there is being in the same room as your wife when she conceives. |
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Jul 15 2008, 06:50 PM
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חסד זך Group: Members Posts: 3,073 Joined: 16-March 08 From: middle of nowhere Member No.: 7,158 |
do newly weds generaly sleep on shabbos or do they often spend shabbos after noon together? I hate shabbos after noon, its so long and I just can't sleep durring the day period, almost no matter how hard I try so I go stir crazy while everyone does their own thing or (more usualy) sleeps and I'm left by my self with noone to talk to and not able to enjoy the usual entertainment. (sleeping.)
-------------------- "well has beruria spoken"
"be kind to the newbies, or Sporky R will come to get you." "when our dreams die, we die" ~Mrs. Ramen |
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Jul 15 2008, 06:53 PM
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QUOTE (lyric @ Jul 15 2008, 07:47 PM) Take them to the park: you want to sleep don't you? There's lots of things I want. |
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Jul 15 2008, 06:57 PM
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Make sure they have a few non-electronic toys and games and try to limit those toys to shabbos only so they don't become sick of them too soon. I don't know where you live but see if you can find/found a shabbos youth group (when I was younger, they were called pirchei and b'nos).
-------------------- דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד
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Jul 15 2008, 07:05 PM
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QUOTE (accolade @ Jul 15 2008, 07:57 PM) (when I was younger, they were called pirchei and b'nos). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lej2O1cXxkg ...kadimah, Bnei Akiva, heidad bema'aleh... |
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Jul 15 2008, 07:08 PM
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grannylicious Group: Members Posts: 3,490 Joined: 23-December 04 From: anywhere there's wifi Member No.: 947 |
QUOTE (melech @ Jul 16 2008, 12:53 AM) There's lots of things I want. heh. But yours are old enough to take care of the younger ones now aren't they? QUOTE (Gretchen @ Jul 16 2008, 12:44 AM) "What are leaves?" wonders the Brooklyn gal. Gretchen your pm inbox is full! QUOTE (outspoken @ Jul 16 2008, 12:50 AM) do newly weds generaly sleep on shabbos or do they often spend shabbos after noon together? I hate shabbos after noon, its so long and I just can't sleep durring the day period, almost no matter how hard I try so I go stir crazy while everyone does their own thing or (more usualy) sleeps and I'm left by my self with noone to talk to and not able to enjoy the usual entertainment. (sleeping.) Depends...if you don't sleep and your future wife isn't used to it either then of course you'll find something else to do... 
-------------------- "Mommy, is this the house where we are allowed to swing on the chairs, or the house where we're not allowed to swing on the chairs?"
- My three year old granddaughter. There is being a real father, and there is being in the same room as your wife when she conceives. |
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Jul 15 2008, 07:09 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 34,499 Joined: 2-September 03 Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (lyric @ Jul 15 2008, 08:07 PM) heh. But yours are old enough to take care of the younger ones now aren't they? <shrug> |
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Jul 15 2008, 07:30 PM
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חסד זך Group: Members Posts: 3,073 Joined: 16-March 08 From: middle of nowhere Member No.: 7,158 |
QUOTE (lyric @ Jul 15 2008, 08:08 PM) Depends...if you don't sleep and your future wife isn't used to it either then of course you'll find something else to do... so should I put it on the list of things to look for?
-------------------- "well has beruria spoken"
"be kind to the newbies, or Sporky R will come to get you." "when our dreams die, we die" ~Mrs. Ramen |
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Jul 15 2008, 08:04 PM
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[mystified] Group: Members Posts: 8,081 Joined: 8-February 05 From: עמק הבכא Member No.: 1,113 |
QUOTE (melech @ Jul 15 2008, 08:05 PM) ...kadimah, Bnei Akiva, heidad bema'aleh... Yes, that too. -------------------- דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד
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