{"id":53,"date":"2008-01-23T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-01-23T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:34:28","slug":"some-great-advice-about-keeping-preschoolers-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Some great advice about keeping preschoolers busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today on my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalmomstalkradio.com\/blog\/questions-from-moms\/\" title=\"Natural Moms Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie&#8217;s blog<\/a> and thought it was great advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first is from a subscriber to my newsletter about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insteadoftv.com\/\" title=\"Instead of TV\" target=\"_blank\">limiting TV<\/a>. She asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Carrie,<\/p>\n<p>We are doing well with our now much limited use of TV (I would say at the most 3hrs a week total).<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>I am really struggling with things to do with my almost three year old son<\/strong>.\u00a0 My girls are doing well.\u00a0 They are 8 and 6 and they are being more creative, pulling out all kinds of toys rarely played with, going outside more and generally living life more.<\/p>\n<p>But my son is the hard one.\u00a0 Also, I find I\u2019m not getting any housework done because <strong>I\u2019m having to entertain my kids so much<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our house is staying a wreck most of the time and I\u2019m struggling with this aspect.\u00a0 Help!!!!!!!!!!\u00a0 Do you have any solutions?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nMom R<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I totally understand this problem! It\u2019s definitely an issue with kids around 3 and 4. One thing I\u2019ve done that helps is to keep a large box (at their level so they can get it themselves)\u00a0in the kitchen full of art materials: paper, colored pencils, crayons, stickers, watercolors, coloring books, paper dolls, etc. My 4 year old gravitates to it several times a day as does the 2 year old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalmomstalkradio.com\/blog\/questions-from-moms\/\" title=\"Carrie's Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE<\/a> to read the rest of Carrie&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today on my friend Carrie&#8217;s blog and thought it was great advice: The first is from a subscriber to my newsletter about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-for-kids","category-instead-of-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}