{"id":183,"date":"2023-07-03T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T23:27:13","slug":"healthy-summer-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/healthy-summer-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Summer Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Healthy Summer Routine with Your Children<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One way to make the summer more fun (for your children AND for you) is to create something of a &#8220;macro&#8221; schedule.\u00a0 While the summer should be a time of fun, relaxing and recovering from the school year, it is also a good opportunity to learn new things, but in a fun, relaxed way.\u00a0 To avoid over-scheduling or getting too detailed, you might consider a schedule that could look something like:\u00a0<br \/>Monday: Make a Craft<br \/>Tuesday: Take a Trip(museum, zoo, pool, sports event, special restaurant lunch&#8230;)<br \/>Wednesday: What do we do Wednesday?(aka Kids&#8217; Choice)\u00a0<br \/>Thursday: Throwback Thursday(pick a subject from last year at school to read about)<br \/>Friday: Friendly Friday (make a play date)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This way, there is a schedule, but you can be flexible with the details.\u00a0 Your children can feel that they are an integral part of what their summer involves.\u00a0 They have the order that helps them focus, but the choice that helps them learn how to structure their own time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Other ideas might include picking a skill for your children to learn by doing that activity at the same time every week, such as learning to cook (make cookies, for example), or reading a particular book (or reading a story in the newspaper on the same day every week), or learning to use paints, or practicing a particular sport, and so on&#8230;.\u00a0Whatever plan works best for you, the idea is to provide structure, so the summer isn&#8217;t &#8220;wasted,&#8221; but also to give your children some control over what may be their most favorite time of year.\u00a0 This way, you might teach your children how to use free time and to have lots of fun!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy Summer Routine with Your Children One way to make  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[565,573],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-health","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}