water play
caradove
Any advice please!
My 11yo son loves water play, but in the summer he gets WAY out of
control with this. We have a baby and a 3.5yo so an outdoor pool is
not a possibility for drowning safety,and I can see he has a lot of
fun with water but he turns on the garden hose all the time and soaks
himself, and makes the garden like a mud bog. We are in town with a
small lot so there is no room for a designated wet area. Every year
this is an issue, we will be dressed to go somewhere, turn round and
him and all the other children (9,5,4yo) are soaked and shivering,
shoes wet and all.
How do I let him have his fun without such an incredible mess, extra
wet muddy laundry and saturated grass swamp?
Cara
My 11yo son loves water play, but in the summer he gets WAY out of
control with this. We have a baby and a 3.5yo so an outdoor pool is
not a possibility for drowning safety,and I can see he has a lot of
fun with water but he turns on the garden hose all the time and soaks
himself, and makes the garden like a mud bog. We are in town with a
small lot so there is no room for a designated wet area. Every year
this is an issue, we will be dressed to go somewhere, turn round and
him and all the other children (9,5,4yo) are soaked and shivering,
shoes wet and all.
How do I let him have his fun without such an incredible mess, extra
wet muddy laundry and saturated grass swamp?
Cara
Kathleen Gehrke
My kids love water too. We do swim team that means we are at the pool
in the summer for about three to four hours a day. Different practice
times and schedules. In the evening after practice they want to... you
guessed it go swimming.
I say help your boys find a way to enjoy the water!
Kathleen
in the summer for about three to four hours a day. Different practice
times and schedules. In the evening after practice they want to... you
guessed it go swimming.
I say help your boys find a way to enjoy the water!
Kathleen
jane doe
--- caradove <caradove@...> wrote:
he was two months old, water is his life. He's 14 now
and still loves to play with the hose. It's the way
they are and there isn't much you can do about it. I
know, I'm one and at 51 I still make mischief with the
hose on a regular basis :) We have always had an
aboveground pool and I have honestly never understood
what people worry about but when they were little we
also had a big blow up one (10' X 6' X 18"?) they're
around $40 and worth every penny. They spent many
hours playing in it, with the hose, toys, the bigger
Little Tyke slide can fit over the walls so they can
slide in. But the real life saver is indoor outdoor
carpet. Buy a big piece and put it down. Let them play
on that, it keeps the mud down and gives them a safe
place to play. Make it the designated wet place, if
he's already playing with the hose and making a muddy
place then you do have space for some thing, it's
really a question of devoting the space. Honest, it's
worth it not to have to deal with the mud. I can't
help you with an answer to getting him to not do it
when you are headed out. I don't know if this would
help but we instituted a rule when they were really
little about only running through puddles when we were
on the way home. We always kept track of the good
looking ones and made sure we went back to them. Maybe
you could make a deal with him to wait until you got
home. I'm sure he doesn't really like going out
dripping wet. Oh, and there are some great heads out
there that produce a great spray without a lot of
water and force, which can hurt the little ones.
Goggles and water shoes make safer fun too. And just
dressing in their bathing suits, that's a huge laundry
saver! We go days here in th summer with just suits
on. Good luck--ELISA
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> Any advice please!I have a waterbaby, we dipped him in the Hudson when
> My 11yo son loves water play, but in the summer he
> gets WAY out of
> control with this.
he was two months old, water is his life. He's 14 now
and still loves to play with the hose. It's the way
they are and there isn't much you can do about it. I
know, I'm one and at 51 I still make mischief with the
hose on a regular basis :) We have always had an
aboveground pool and I have honestly never understood
what people worry about but when they were little we
also had a big blow up one (10' X 6' X 18"?) they're
around $40 and worth every penny. They spent many
hours playing in it, with the hose, toys, the bigger
Little Tyke slide can fit over the walls so they can
slide in. But the real life saver is indoor outdoor
carpet. Buy a big piece and put it down. Let them play
on that, it keeps the mud down and gives them a safe
place to play. Make it the designated wet place, if
he's already playing with the hose and making a muddy
place then you do have space for some thing, it's
really a question of devoting the space. Honest, it's
worth it not to have to deal with the mud. I can't
help you with an answer to getting him to not do it
when you are headed out. I don't know if this would
help but we instituted a rule when they were really
little about only running through puddles when we were
on the way home. We always kept track of the good
looking ones and made sure we went back to them. Maybe
you could make a deal with him to wait until you got
home. I'm sure he doesn't really like going out
dripping wet. Oh, and there are some great heads out
there that produce a great spray without a lot of
water and force, which can hurt the little ones.
Goggles and water shoes make safer fun too. And just
dressing in their bathing suits, that's a huge laundry
saver! We go days here in th summer with just suits
on. Good luck--ELISA
We have a collective responsibility to the least of us-Phil Ramone
We can do no great things; only small things with great love- Mother Teresa
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Katlin
Could you do an inflatable pool that he can play in ( in his swim
trunks ) and let him know that it's okay to play in the pool, but not
in his nice going out clothes, and not to get his siblings wet if they
are fully dressed??? I'm not really sure but this is what i was
thinking about for a pool.
http://www.coolinflatables.com/site/891852/product/56440 something
like that, not too deep. and the little ones can play in it too????
--- In [email protected], "caradove" <caradove@...>
wrote:
trunks ) and let him know that it's okay to play in the pool, but not
in his nice going out clothes, and not to get his siblings wet if they
are fully dressed??? I'm not really sure but this is what i was
thinking about for a pool.
http://www.coolinflatables.com/site/891852/product/56440 something
like that, not too deep. and the little ones can play in it too????
--- In [email protected], "caradove" <caradove@...>
wrote:
>
> Any advice please!
> My 11yo son loves water play, but in the summer he gets WAY out of
> control with this. We have a baby and a 3.5yo so an outdoor pool is
> not a possibility for drowning safety,and I can see he has a lot of
> fun with water but he turns on the garden hose all the time and soaks
> himself, and makes the garden like a mud bog. We are in town with a
> small lot so there is no room for a designated wet area. Every year
> this is an issue, we will be dressed to go somewhere, turn round and
> him and all the other children (9,5,4yo) are soaked and shivering,
> shoes wet and all.
> How do I let him have his fun without such an incredible mess, extra
> wet muddy laundry and saturated grass swamp?
> Cara
>
Ren Allen
Let's see....ways we invite water play:
~Give the kids squirt bottles full of water and turn them loose on the
windows (outside usually) or on each other.
~Fill up buckets of water to play with on the deck.
~Use a variety of sprinklers
~Fill a plastic storage tub with warm water (usually in the kitchen)
and spread towels all around
~Squirt guns
~Lotsa tub play....shaving cream to paint the tub walls with (it's
super cheap too), food dye in the water etc...
~Fill kitchen sink with warm sudsy water and put a bunch of pouring,
measuring tools in for play
~Kiddie pools on the deck
~Water balloon fights
Jalen and Sierra love taking buckets of water and filling them up in
the kitchen, then pouring them on each other from the deck (one kid
stands on the ground while the other one pours from the 2nd level
deck). They think it's great fun!:)
We had an idea for this year. We're going to buy some cheap plastic
tubing from Lowes and use it to fill their kiddie pools or plastic
tubs up. It can be run from the kitchen sink to the deck that way, so
we can warm their water up and start with warmer water for those cool
days.
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
~Give the kids squirt bottles full of water and turn them loose on the
windows (outside usually) or on each other.
~Fill up buckets of water to play with on the deck.
~Use a variety of sprinklers
~Fill a plastic storage tub with warm water (usually in the kitchen)
and spread towels all around
~Squirt guns
~Lotsa tub play....shaving cream to paint the tub walls with (it's
super cheap too), food dye in the water etc...
~Fill kitchen sink with warm sudsy water and put a bunch of pouring,
measuring tools in for play
~Kiddie pools on the deck
~Water balloon fights
Jalen and Sierra love taking buckets of water and filling them up in
the kitchen, then pouring them on each other from the deck (one kid
stands on the ground while the other one pours from the 2nd level
deck). They think it's great fun!:)
We had an idea for this year. We're going to buy some cheap plastic
tubing from Lowes and use it to fill their kiddie pools or plastic
tubs up. It can be run from the kitchen sink to the deck that way, so
we can warm their water up and start with warmer water for those cool
days.
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
Ren Allen
Well now I feel silly...I just sent water play suggestions for younger
kids and now realize the child in question is 11! Oops.:)
If I could afford a pool, I'd certainly consider putting one in for
him. There are measures to keep the little ones safe. They'll be safer
around water than kids that grow up without a pool!
What about getting out to a lake where he can kayak and swim? Or get a
pool membership? We spend a TON of time in the water all summer.
Ren
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kids and now realize the child in question is 11! Oops.:)
If I could afford a pool, I'd certainly consider putting one in for
him. There are measures to keep the little ones safe. They'll be safer
around water than kids that grow up without a pool!
What about getting out to a lake where he can kayak and swim? Or get a
pool membership? We spend a TON of time in the water all summer.
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
Kathleen Gehrke
--- In [email protected], "Ren Allen"
<starsuncloud@...> wrote:
All of your suggestions would be fun for all ages.
Kathleen
<starsuncloud@...> wrote:
>younger
> Well now I feel silly...I just sent water play suggestions for
> kids and now realize the child in question is 11! Oops.:)Ren my nearly sixteen year old loves water pistols and water balloons.
>
>
All of your suggestions would be fun for all ages.
Kathleen
Brad Holcomb
This is something I learned from sleeping on waterbeds for about 20 years:
At the waterbed store (and probably at WalMart and other big stores) you can
buy an inexpensive plastic "fill kit" that will enable you to hookup any
normal garden water hose to any faucet in your house. It has 3 or 4
adaptors to fit any size faucet. You just screw off the aeration tip of the
faucet, and hook up the hose. No specialty tubing/hose necessary.
And at Lowe's they likely have adaptors to go "faucet to hose", but to
ensure a proper fit you'll need to screw off the aerator from your faucet
and take it with you for sizing.
--
Brad in Missouri, USA
From: Ren Allen
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:10 PM
We had an idea for this year. We're going to buy some cheap plastic
tubing from Lowes and use it to fill their kiddie pools or plastic
tubs up. It can be run from the kitchen sink to the deck that way, so
we can warm their water up and start with warmer water for those cool
days.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
At the waterbed store (and probably at WalMart and other big stores) you can
buy an inexpensive plastic "fill kit" that will enable you to hookup any
normal garden water hose to any faucet in your house. It has 3 or 4
adaptors to fit any size faucet. You just screw off the aeration tip of the
faucet, and hook up the hose. No specialty tubing/hose necessary.
And at Lowe's they likely have adaptors to go "faucet to hose", but to
ensure a proper fit you'll need to screw off the aerator from your faucet
and take it with you for sizing.
--
Brad in Missouri, USA
From: Ren Allen
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:10 PM
We had an idea for this year. We're going to buy some cheap plastic
tubing from Lowes and use it to fill their kiddie pools or plastic
tubs up. It can be run from the kitchen sink to the deck that way, so
we can warm their water up and start with warmer water for those cool
days.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
patrick morris
hi, my son loves water play, the hose game with dogs biting water began
the obsession, hes 13 now, today we sat in a big pile of watery mud in
our backyard and built mud cities , talking of resources neededand
bridging to the main land, when it went into covering feet with mud ,.
I still have to baby step myself in, saying are you sure you want to do
that, youll have to hose off, and hey not me, then okay but we'll have
to hose off before we go in, to not my face to a full out mud sling and
wrestle , ah , unschooling , can't beat it.
patrick
the obsession, hes 13 now, today we sat in a big pile of watery mud in
our backyard and built mud cities , talking of resources neededand
bridging to the main land, when it went into covering feet with mud ,.
I still have to baby step myself in, saying are you sure you want to do
that, youll have to hose off, and hey not me, then okay but we'll have
to hose off before we go in, to not my face to a full out mud sling and
wrestle , ah , unschooling , can't beat it.
patrick