I get the point of quiet time. I rally do. I'm just waiting for my kids to get. For the last two weeks we've regularly taken quiet time immediately after lunch. Its not that my kids really need to nap, in fact only 1 out of 3 takes a nap some of the time. But we've still had quiet time because Mommy needs the break. So I give Rose an old game boy to play with, I give Cyprus my Kindle and let him fight it out with Juniper as to which one gets it and which one plays with the Legos. Then I turn off all the lights, put up all the security gates in the house. Then I go downstairs, plug in my earplugs and pretend that the kids are actually asleep. At that point I either play mindless video games or clean the carpet depending on my mood.
But as for it actually being "quiet time" I just have to laugh. I'm going to start keeping a tally board at how many times my daughter calls me from upstairs upset about something or desperate for help with the game. Then there's the physical abuse known as brothers wrestling as they fight over the Kindle or just the air they breathe or because one looked at the other the wrong way. They simply seem to fight over anything and everything.
No matter what though I need that break. I might have to take up actually going in the back yard with ear phones in and weed or something so that I really can't hear the screaming. So my one bit of advice for other mom's is the same one I took from another author mom. . .it doesn't matter what the kids do in their room during quiet time, but make sure mom gets that time no matter what. It will become your sanity saver.
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