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(◕‿◕✿) facts about divorce for feminists and MRAs:

• in most (51%) of cases, both parents decided on their own (out of court) that the mother was to receive full custody
• in 29% of custody cases, the decision was made without any third party involvement
• in 91% of cases, the decision for the mother to have custody was made without court involvement
• of those who go to court, 70% of men who seek custody of their child receive it
• of those 70%, 1/3 of the cases cited domestic abuse as part of the reason for divorce
• women who mention having been victims of domestic abuse in court are less likely to receive custody of their children than women who didn’t

i’m tired of seeing posts on feminism by both feminists andMRAs citing “gender bias in custody cases” as a problem we need to solve. women aren’t unfairly receiving custody more often. abusive men are unfairly receiving custody.

the fact is, if my dad had actually attended his court ordered anger management type classes, i would legally have been required to spend a portion of my time with him until i turned 18, even though he beat my mother and abused me.

don’t let anyone make you think that the scale isn’t still tipped toward men in a court of law.

sources:(1)(2)

Another fun fact : contrary to the MRA claim that women make false allegations of abuse to get leverage in divorce/custody cases, evidence shows allegations of abuse are actually rare, and substantiated in most cases. Out of the accusations that were found to be deliberate lies by the courts, most were fabricated by men (21%) vs women (1.3%).

This information is very important!

As an aside: if anyone has additional sources that would be excellent. The ones listed have broken links to the original data sources. 

I’m re-reblogging this because I found additional sources!!

I’m taking info from these sources: (one) (two) (three)

First

• Only about 10% of divorces involve a trial (i.e. custody is determined outside of trial about 90% of the time)
  
• At most, 20% of divorcing or separating families take the case to court (includes pre-trial and trial proceedings). Only approximately 4-5% ultimately go to trial, with most cases settling at some point earlier in the process.
• Most families (90+%) decide on a custody arrangement with minimal intervention of the family court system. For those that require more intervention, domestic violence is a significant issue. (i.e. most high-conflict cases include some history of domestic abuse).
  

On abusive men receiving custody

• In a review of parents referred for child custody evaluations by the court (and remember only about 20% of cases go to court), domestic violence was raised in 75% of the cases.
  
• A report by the American Judges Foundation, reported that 70% of the time an abuser who requests custody is able to convince the court to give it to him.
  
• Raising allegations of abuse often hurts the abused or protective parent more than the alleged abuser…women who inform custody mediators that they are victims of domestic violence often receive less favorable custody awards
• Only 17% of fathers with a known history of domestic violence were denied child visitation and they were no more likely than other fathers to be required by the court to have a third party supervise child visitations.

On false accusations

• Of female-initiated allegations, just 1.3% were deemed intentionally false by civil courts, compared with 21% when the man in the failed relationship brought similar allegations. (i.e. men make more false allegations of abuse than women in custody cases)
  
• Most allegations that later turned out to be false are classified as “classified as misinterpretations” (meaning they were not intentionalfalse allegations/the allegations were made in good faith)
  

And also

• When adjusted for time spent with the child, fathers are significantly more likely to commit child abuse
• The vast majority of [severe child abuse] perpetrators were male
• Male perpetrators outnumbered females over 2:1

FURTHERMORE

It makes sense that women more often have custody of children considering thatmothers spend twice as much time caring for children than fathers.

“…society’s attitude towards young children [is] one of enthusiastic support and encouragement, in that child care and development are viewed as an essential part of the function of parents with government playing a strongly supportive role. It is difficult to see the same enthusiastic support being directed towards the mentally ill in society. Instead the mentally ill are viewed with suspicion and distrust.”

— R D Mackay, Mental Condition Defences in the Criminal Law (1995)

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pussystigmata:

im pro children having privacy but if you think parents should give kids unrestricted internet access…its not 1999. in 2022 thats legitimately neglectful. do you know how many kids are out here like. watching gore and porn. its not normal or healthy. its traumatic.

Using parental controls to block sites and seeing what websites your 13yo goes to- legit.

Using apps that monitor every text conversation your 17yo has with their friends- fucking invasive and creepy

internet parenting rules are about the same as irl parenting rules for small towns and suburbs

dont leave small children fully unattended. take them to a park and let them play with their friends without hovering over their shoulders
have some kind of parental controls and access to kid friendly sites. ask them about their online lives when theyre done playing. did they have fun? what are their friends names? what did they play? if your kid mentions something strange, maybe do some digging to make sure nothing sketchy is going on. plus, you get to talk to your kid and find out what theyre interested in

as kids get older (around 13, though this isn’t strictly a one-size-fits-all situation), give them more freedoms

when kids start getting towards maturity, loosen up on the parental restrictions. maybe let them keep their younger siblings out of trouble and entertained by showing them the games they used to play, but also let them have a few more freedoms to test the waters. some parental locks are still a good idea, but if they want to get social media, this is around when that will probably be happening. remember that outright banning of social media presences rarely helps. your children won’t be learning safe internet habits and most kids will simply find ways to slip through not only the ban, but all restrictions. the internet doesn’t end at your doorstep and it is very very easy to get access to public wifi.

now is also when you give your kids a more detailed version of the internet safety talk. ‘dont talk to strangers’ is a bit reductive, but not fully wrong. dont give out your real name, location, age, or identifying information is a minimum. remind them that even if theyre passing that information to someone they trust, the nature of the internet is that correspondence is not guaranteed privacy.

personally, I recommend having them pick a 'pretend birthday’ to use for logging into websites that require those kinds of checks for age filters and depending on your personal level of comfort, something to celebrate with internet-only friends. something close enough to their real birthday to accurately be filtered by age restricted sites, but not their actual birthdate so that every club penguin, hulu, google, whatever site doesn’t have that identifying information. pick one with them for fun!

old enough to drive old enough to play without a chaperone

this isn’t a one to one metaphor, obviously. 16 year olds are more easily vulnerable to more internet dangers than they are irl ones. predatory money scams don’t check for age, after all, and most kids have at least some access to money nowadays, even if its just a card for subscription fees.

however, this is the point around which up close and direct supervision of your child’s internet habits does more harm to your relationships than good to their safety. keep an open line of communication with your children (show interest and learn about their hobbies and interests. if you are able to understand the spaces they enjoy hanging out, you’ll be better positioned to spot anyone who might try and exploit them. also, you’ll have something to talk to your kid about!)

there are new aspects to online life that you need to be aware of and teach your children

make sure your kids know about malware and data collection and are careful about what websites they go on and what links they click. teach your children that they don’t owe anyone engagement and it’s okay to disengage from toxic or shitty conversations. if your kid is part of the large number of people who want a social media platform of some kind, make sure that they have messaging filters and understand the difference between someone’s genuine concern and someone’s bad faith harassment.

remind your kids that the distribution of child prnography is illegal, even if they are the child in question. it is possible for them to face legal consequences for sharing nudes of themselves online, even if it’s just over text to a partner.

it’s the nature of the internet that kids growing up with new algorithms will probably have a more intuitive understanding of some of the systems than those of us who had to learn them post brain-development. but all those lessons we’ve learned along the way about being scammed or taken advantage of? we can pass those along just fine.

Sometimes camps, schools, and other programs for kids think “mother” when they should be thinking “parent or guardian”. In addition to being sexist, this kind of bias can cause a number of other problems.

When programs for kids think of “mother” and “parent” as synonyms, they often end up forgetting that other parents and guardians exist. When they think of “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, they often fail to contact the appropriate adult. 

For instance: 

• Susan, an eight year old, just fell off the jungle gym and needs to be taken to the hospital.
  
• Susan’s teacher, Ruby, calls 911. 
  
• Ruby thinks “I need to call Susan’s mother to let her know that Ruby was just taken to Hypothetical Hospital”.
  
• Susan’s mother, Melissa isn’t reachable during the day because she works in a secure building without access to a phone.
  
• Susan’s father, Christopher, *is* reachable. He works from home, and always has his phone with him.
  
• Although Susan’s emergency contact form has a note saying to call Christopher first, it doesn’t occur to Ruby to do so, because she’s thinking “I need to call Susan’s mother”, and looking at the “mother” line of the form.
  
• Ruby keeps trying to reach Melissa. 
  
• It takes an hour before it occurs to anyone to call Susan’s *father*.
  

Or:

• David is a twelve year old who has food allergies. He also has a mother, Miriam, and a father, Fred.
  
• Katie, who runs the kitchen at Camp Hypothetical, has some questions about what he can and can’t eat, and whether the plan for an upcoming camp out will work for him.
  
• Katie tries calling Miriam, David’s mother. She doesn’t reply. Katie tries again and again, over the course of several days.
  
• It doesn’t occur to her to try calling David’s *father*, even though she knows he has one — because she thinks of mothers as the parents who keep track of that kind of information.

When you’re working with kids, it’s really important not to treat “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, and to remember that:

• Not all children have mothers.
  
• Not all mothers are primary caregivers.
  
• Not all children who have mothers live with their mothers.
  
• Not all mothers should be given information about their children.
  
• Fathers are parents.
  
• Nonbinary parents are parents.
  
• When a kid has more than one parent, it’s often best to contact both/all parents (especially if contacting the first parent doesn’t work.)
  
• Some kids are raised by people other than their parents (eg: grandparents, a sibling, foster parents).
  

Tl;dr If you’re working with kids and you need to contact their parent or guardian, don’t assume that their mother is the right person to contact. Look at the instructions on their emergency/parent contact form, and follow those instructions. And if you try calling a kid’s mother and don’t get a response, check to see whether they have another parent you should try calling.

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While sitting in his high-chair, your baby drops the spoon. You get up, pick it up from the floor, give it back to Baby - only for him to throw it away on purpose. 

If this scene sounds familiar to you, you might wonder why he does that. Is he rebellious and tries to upset you on purpose? Does he have a really silly kind of humor? No and no. In fact, your baby is busy conducting his very first scientific experiments. His brain is starting to understand two important concepts. 

The first one is called “Cause and Effect”: When i throw away the spoon, mom picks it up. When i do it again, she does it again. Oh, yay!

The second is called “Object permanence”: When i throw away the spoon, it disappears - No, it doesn’t, mom picks it up! It’s still there, even when i can’t see it!

To fully grasp these concepts, your baby needs to repeat those experiments again and again and again. That’s annoying to you - but try to smile at your little scientist! 

another cognitive thing they’re learning is “when i drop something, it will fall downevery time!” - boom, gravity

also, as important, they’re learning social emotional skills like trust. “every time i lose something, mom, helps me. even if it makes her mad.”

always pick up the spoon - you’re teaching the kid that they can depend on other people

Important information for people who get annoyed/mad when kids “act out”

they’re just learning, fam, give it time

Again a good post send by God

I’m a nanny, and I’ve worked with a lot of babies over the last few years, (including twins, which, OH MY GOD). So yeah, I’ve seen a lot of this, and while I do encourage exploration and experimentation etc, repeatedly picking up spoons off the floor for forty-five minutes is so boring and gives me back pain, so what I do is: every time they drop something, I wait slightly longer to pick it up and hand it to them.

This also adds the concept of natural consequences to their understanding of cause and effect. Not consequences in a disciplinary way, but the idea of, “if I throw this thing across the room, now it’s on the other side of the room and I might have to go and get it myself if I want to keep playing with it.”

Hey dudes! Hope your Tuesday has been great, mine has been pretty good. ✨I went and saw Broods last night at the Neptune Theater and they were amazing but I am an early to bed type of person so it was a little to late for me to be out on a Monday night! #grannyforlife I still somehow managed to drag my butt out of bed and run though! ‍♀️ I got in 3 slow miles, 28 minutes, 9:20 per mile. My goal was 8:00 a mile but I was so freaking tired so I took it easy on myself and was honestly just stoked I made it out there this morning! As for the rest of my day it involved 2 different park visits, picking flowers, chatting up the ducks, and riding bikes! Now I’m about to check out some used ski gear which I’m super excited about!!

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hello there! these past few weeks i was enjoying my vacation days and then i started reading stories with less than 50 translated chapters (i have a policy on my own to start reading only when the story translation reaches 50+ chapters) and now i came here to share with you these stories i liked very much.

ps: this isnt a ranking post, so the order doesn’t matter

i hope you like it ✨

I Don’t Love You Anymore

Translated Chapters: 43

This manhwa looks pretty good to me. After suffering for 10 looong years, the FL has finally opened her eyes and realised that she deserves respect (like any other human being). I reeeaaally like stories about powerful women, so im keeping my expectations high for this one.

How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter

Translated Chapters: 29

Guys, i really enjoy reading stories where the protagonists are still kids cause i like cute things This manhwa is a little bit different from what i was used to, cause although its cute, the FL has some powers that can help her father to solve crimes, so it has some drama and mystery. It reminded me a little of sherlock holmes.

I Became the Male Lead’s Adopted Daughter

Translated Chapters: 28

Here’s another manhwa with kids! This one is really lovely. I think that the father-daughter relationship in this manhwa is really healthy and balanced, both of them are really cute and special to each other.

A Symbiotic Relationship Between A Rabbit And A Black Panther

Translated Chapters: 41

This one is cute in another way. The characters are all beasts and the FL is a reaaally cute bunny. I don’t know yet how much i’ll like it later on, but it has a pretty entertaining story.

Into the light once again

ps: this is the novel’s cover cause i didnt find the manhwa’s cover

Translated Chapters: 25

This manhwa is really pretty and the FL is reaaaally lovely, cute […] This story is a bit different from what im used to see when it comes to reincarnation stories cause the FL reaincarnates in the same time-space, but in another family. I had the feeling that i’ll really love this story.

Leveling My Husband to the Max

Translated Chapters: 22

This manhwa has the same vibe as “Under the Oak Tree”, with a fragile FL and a ML that has some kind of inferiority complex. But this manhwa has time travel, so, after suffering for years, the FL went back in time and started to make different decisions, wich made her an admirable woman. I have a good feeling about this manhwa ✨

The Vilainess Needs a Tyrant

ps: i think that this is the novel’s cover again

Translated Chapters: 31

This manhwa is somewhat different from the ones i cited, cause its more dramatic, realistic, tragic or something in between. The FL went back in time and now she wants revenge. I dont know yet how much i’ll like this story, but it looks interesting.

Baby Empress

Translated Chapters: 30

Here’s another cute one. The FL is a reeeaaaaally lovely child and the ML is handsome even as a child. It seems that the cute and happy part wont last long, though, as the story takes place in the middle of a huge war.

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March 4, 2021

Okay I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I don’t want speak to any of my close friends or family about it. Mostly because I might only feel this way because I’m pregnant and I don’t want to them to get the wrong idea of my boyfriend. But anyway first let me say this, I love him, I love my boyfriend very much. He makes me so happy… but only to a certain extent. I makes me happy sexually, when we joke around and when we’re just happy in general. But when we comes to serious things in our relationship he just shuts down and goes quite. I thought relationships were about the good and the bad? And what makes things worse is that I’m working but he isn’t. And I won’t be working for much longer because I have to have my baby in July so everything will be on him for awhile. We also still haven’t moved out, and I’m still technically homeless. I just wish I had the money to get my own apartment, my own place to stay were my child and I will be comfortable and safe. I’m honestly thinking about starting a go-fund me since my job is barely paying to anything. I have other bills that need to be paid also, so I really think a go fund me would help out a lot. But who would help? I really don’t know but it won’t hurt to try right? But on a lighter note, guess what?! I am now 19 weeks! And I’ll be 20 weeks on Sunday! It just hit me, I can’t believe I’ll actually be someone’s mother soon.. I really hope I’m a good mom. And I hope my baby loves me as much as I love it. I can feel it moving sometimes. It feels like little butterflies in there. I’m checking to find out the gender next week, and just to get a check up because your girl finally got insurance!!! I’m so happy! But that’s all I have for today. Talk to you later!

December 5, 2020

So I’m alittle overwhelmed with this pregnancy thing. My boyfriend still doesn’t want to keep the baby and I’ve been trying to look for resources to help me out. I don’t have health insurance so making my first appointment to check on my baby has become extremely frustrating. I’ve heard that there are programs for that, to help out with prenatal care, food stamps, free doctors visits, and free vitamims up until child birth but I can’t find ANYTHING! I… I feel like I’m suppose to have this baby but I’m so lost on what to do! I want to ask my parents for help but I know they’ll just ridicule me. Tell me I’m dumb for even wanting to keep my baby. I want to move out of moms house before I ask her for help, I know she’ll be upset at first but she’ll get over it and end up helping me. I just feel like I’m stuck right now. I feel like there’s nothing in my power that I can do! But I’ll pull through. I’ll find a way not only for me but for my child. Even if I have to pay for everything out of pocket I will! Well I just had to get that off my chest. If anyone who has seen has any advice please, please, please reach out to me.

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knifefightscene:

White women need to go to hell for the constant glorification of unpaid labor (being a housewife) like u seriously ignore millions of women who are under abuse and have to depend on their abusers to survive. These women were quite frankly raised to be wives and mothers and nothing else. “I just don’t want to work”. HOUSEWORK IS WORK.

Seriously not enough talk about how housework includes constantly cleaning, doing laundry, cooking dinner, child care,… when upper class white women fantasize about being housewives they also expect someone else to do these labor for them. And funny enough, poor women who have full time jobs as their maids still have to go home and take care of their own house chores and kids :/ white feminism is frankly a fucking joke like can u get any more ignorant :/

When women say shit like that, I want to shake them and yell STOP MAKING YOURSELF INVISIBLE TO THE MEN YOU LIVE WITH AND WORK FOR

Because the work they are doing is on their husbands’/partners’ behalf, so that their men don’t have to do that shit themselves. Unfortunately, too many men are willing to take advantage of that and pretend that they’re the only ones that actually make a difference to the household because the men are the ones with the paying jobs. Add abuse into that, as OP says, and you get a real shitstorm.

My ex used to accuse me to my face of not contributing to the household when I was the one cleaning the house, doing the laundry and grocery shopping and errands, cooking the meals, and taking care of the pets, so that he didn’t have to. I did this often on top of having full-time employment outside the home. And then add in childcare duties on top of that once we had kids. And this, among other things, is why he is my ex.

Housework is work.

Childcare is work.

Unpaid labor is still labor.

Ladies, stop selling yourselves short.

Men, start paying attention to all your partners do for you, and start pulling your own weight in the home.

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Things to entertain kids at home:

Ok so I’ve curated this list based on both my own experiences and that of other people, these may or may not be applicable depending on what they like and how old they are but it’s just some ideas to help whether you’re baby sitting or want to do something fun! I am not a parent myself however from things my own parents, my siblings and my experience with little ones these are my suggestions, but whatever works for you I think you’re doing awesome!!

• Make fairy houses; It doesn’t have to be mega fancy but you can get creative with this, fake moss and flowers, clay bake toad stools, make door signs, beds etc, then you can place these in the garden for when the ‘fairies’ visit
• Have an ‘archaeology’ dig, if you have a sand box use this as your base but if not fill a small paddling pool with some sand and then hide objects among the sand to dig up and examine, this can range from a tiara to ‘dinosaur bones,’ Give them a spade and a pastry brush and watch the wonders of tiny Indiana Jones
• Ok so this was game me, my cousin and my sisters used to play at my grandmas when we were little but it’s great because it teaches kids about different words but also different categories of knowledge. So we’d take an A4 sheet of paper and write the alphabet along the portrait side of it, we’d then make a table with categories at the top ranging from animals to names and we’d have to go through each letter of the alphabet and think of something in these categories that started with the same letter, the person who could think of the most things or the most letters in a word would win a point and the person with the most points was the winner
• Create a mini ocean; Fill a large plastic box with clean fresh water and some skin safe blue food colouring and place somewhere that you don’t mind getting wet, in the water place plastic sea creatures, fake sea plants, some rocks at the bottom and even some sand. Add on the side of the box some extras like boats and a some small people so that they can create their own adventures.
• Colour in a giant colouring picture; Set it in the centre of the floor or on your dining table, make sure to put a protector underneath to prevent any ink bleed and layout some non toxic felt tip pens and colouring pencils
• Bake and decorate sugar cookies; These are great to fuel the imagination, lay out a decorating station with sprinkles, icing and edible paper decorations and let the fun begin
• Hide an object and let them scavenge to find it, if you hide it well this will make for a lot of fun and if you hide multiple items this can be an exciting treasure hunt
• A magic show; Find a kids magic trick video on YouTube for them to perform, then let them make their own show with costumes, sound effects and curtain reveals
• Tik tok dances; Learn and dance to a family tik tok dance, if you’re babysitting you can film it and keep it as something fun for their parents to have
• Finger painting, get a few large sheets of paper, some non toxic paints and some old or easily washable clothes, go outside and go wild
• Make houses and rooms for toys from shoe boxes; I did this all the time as a kid and all it takes is some toy accessories, some glue to stack and stick the boxes together to make a doll house and some scraps of fabric, magazine cut outs and pens to decorate
• Origami; Get a book of folding paper and hit YouTube, I made a rose with mine
• Fashion shows; Let the kids wear whatever they like, fancy dress, their own clothes, a bin bag toga, whatever! Create a runway space and put on some music and let them do the rest!
• Paint and build animal habitats; whether it’s a bird house, a hedgehog hide away or a bees nook this will not only teach kids how to care for their environment and local wildlife but also provide hours of fun, even better when you can see some critter visitors
• Decorate plant pots then Plant herbs, flowers and vegetables in the garden; buy plain large or medium plant pots, some brushes and waterproof paints and let the kids paint a pot each for the bedding plants and then help them to plant them. A creative and sustainable way to entertain kids while helping the environment.
• Create a den, gather duvets, sheets, cushions, blankets, pillows and Fairylights and make a cosy den to play, read and watch movies
• Make themed baths; this can range from space to mermaid cove, invest in a mood lamp, fun baths toys and skin sensitive bath bombs, depending on the theme you can personalise this eg for jungle themed, suspend plastic Ivy and vines around the walls and the bath, place plastic jungle animals in the bath and around the tub, plunge a green swampy bath bomb into the bath, use a green mood lighting and playing some jungle ambience music to set the scene
• Decorate masks, you can buy these from any craft shop, buy some paints, feathers, glitter, beads etc and enjoy!
• Make Halloween/Christmas decorations; This can range from making bat bunting to painting baubles to making Christmas paper chains, get some ideas from Pinterest and go from there. Paper chains are a great thing to do for any event as on each scrap of paper you can draw pictures and be creative
• Have a karaoke night with ‘microphones’ these can literally be wooden spoons or hair brushes, add in some sunglasses and a fancy scarf and you’ve got a mini X factor in your house
• A teddy bears picnic, this can be inside or outside depending on the weather, you and each of the kids can bring one cuddly toy to the picnic as their guest to share lunch/dinner/whatever meal with, this is even better if you voice talk the stuffed animals to make it more fun
• Make finger puppets and have a puppet show, whether you make a stage or not is up to you but I’m a big believer in that a piece of A4 paper, some glue and a few felt pens can bring so much fun
• Obstacle course; set it up throughout the house or garden with string ‘lazer’ beams, cushion stepping stones along the ‘lava canyon,’ the mop handle limbo pole and the dreaded skipping rope on the floor tightrope
• Makeover; Grab some cheap makeup and nail vanishes and let them make you into a super model
• Hair dressers; Again let them play with and style your hair, provide clips and hair ties and voila, even if you have short hair it still works!
• Slip and slide; Roll out a carpet protector in the garden or in your hallway, cover it in fairy liquid, get the kids in their bathing suits and enjoy the at home water park
• Water fight; Get some cheap water pistols, go out into the garden or the front of the building and go for your life!
• Paddling pool; Self explanatory fun!
• Garden/house camping; Set up a tent in the garden or the living room, put some sleeping bags and blankets etc in there with some fairy lights, roast marshmallows and pretend you’re out in the wild wilderness of the world
• Ball games; Football, basketball, netball, whatever it is it’s a great way to have fun in a larger group
• Play do; No need to explain this one
• Indoor mini garden; Get a box and fill it with soil, give the kids some rocks, twigs, fake plants and flowers and let them go wild
• Get some old (appropriate) magazines, some newspapers, glue, stickers, felt pens, a sheet of A2 paper and some paper letters, and let the kids express who their art in collage
• Movie marathons; Disney plus is a recommended purchase! Alongside some popcorn of course
• Simple YouTube crafts; watch the videos and make some cool stuff
• Paint water colour pictures; Less mess and less stress if you buy palettes
• Watch and follow drawing tutorials, it’s great to see what you come up with in the end and when you’re finished colour them in!
• The finding game; Keep a score sheet on paper and ask the kids to find things like the biggest stick in the garden, the smelliest sock and the largest stone, whoever gets the most points wins

Im sure there are loads more things I haven’t mentioned but basically just come up with whatever you think will be fun and safe for the kids to enjoy, sometimes the best things are in our own homes and they don’t need to be at any fancy places or using any fancy tech, just simple stuff used in the right way can be effective