I just love all your ideas, I’m 57, and our kids are in their 30’s and no where near being married yet with kids, so i am not a grand ma, but these ideas I will use for me and my hubby...80’s movie nights, more reading, water feature to install in my flower garden and just taking the time to sit down and enjoy the summer days and nights listening to old jazz music. Life is a gift and I will take the time to enjoy mine in 2022!
When i was a kid in 90s new zealand our school receptionist would read roald dahl books over the school intercom every day throughout winter. We had to lie down on pillows and imagine the story. She had the most magical voice and has always stuck with me. She passed away recently. Reading aloud is so special for kids
My childhood of the sixties during summers sounds much like yours of the eighties: outdoors playing group games with all the neighbor kids, water games with the sprinkler and hose (what are pools!!??), parents largely absent (working), and boredom followed by creative bursts: build a fort, go inside (lovely box unit AC) and start a monoply or canasta tournament. Roller skate or ride bikes, even! We enjoyed not only the freedom but also the responsibility to entertain ourselves and structure our own time🙀
Yep. 80s kid here. I don’t ever remember my mom telling us to go outside. We just were always outside. I remember her having to make us come in to take showers/baths at the end of the day. We didn’t even have all the fun Walmart toys to keep us entertained but we did have 4 wheelers and many acres to ride on. Totally different life then what it is today!
I love tip #7. I would like to add, if you didn’t have a fond childhood maybe focus on creating the childhood that you wished you had. This tip combo is perfect for me because I’m working on taking care of my inner child while also creating new memories with my family. Thank you for these tips! ❤️
Love it! This was how I did summer as a child. The best. One more thing to add, indoor sheet forts on super hot days and an endless supply of otter pops!
I am a proud 80's child! We have the best memories- 80's music and movies are the bomb. And yes we very independent, had the when-sun-comes down curfew and drinking from the hose. Thanks for the fun nostalgic memories Angela!!
One Summer memory that "stuck" was the Summer my younger sister & I watched Grease 2 pretty much every time that it was on. But by the 13th time, my dad couldn't take it anymore & he unplugged the TV or the cable box 😂😂😂...one of the two!! Good times!!
60s kid here but always enjoyed catching fire flies (lightning bugs) at night, butterflies during the day and then looking them up and learning about them. Did you know fire flies have different flashing codes that are actually a way of finding a mate? Who knew!
We live in a dead end next to a playground. So I put sun screen on the kids, open the garden gate... and every now and then bring water and popsicles outside. Oh, and sidewalk chalk. Also important! They can draw themselfs a whole world with them.
Haha “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!” Lmaoo I’ve definitely said this one 🤣 I love how genuine you are and how more relaxed you seem. I can definitely see your personality more in these newer videos and IM HERE FOR IT 🙌🏼
Loved this! My kids are screen addicts, it's so hard to pull them away. I didn't have an "ideal" childhood and I'm breaking a cycle here, so I try to do a lot of togetherness time. My son received a Nintendo Switch for his birthday and we ordered extra controllers and the board game edition bundles and we'll spend an hour or so before bedtime playing things like Monopoly or Risk. There are games my husband and I remember from when we were younger and the kids get their screen fix and we're all together laughing and making really simple and fun memories, it's a win win win.
For moms of boys I would encourage them to learn how to play their boys favorite video game. When my 3 boys were6, 8 and 10 they were 100% about Minecraft and my husband learned to play. I quickly realized that I was going to be totally left out if I was unwilling to try, so I learned and 10 years later we still play! 🥰
Not just for boys- my girls love Minecraft and there's been lots of bonding between by husband and them playing together! I wish I could play- it makes me sort of nauseous, lol.
I am an 80s kid too. I loved this video. When I was younger I went to a friends house and we did the whole I’m bored thing so the mum said that we all had to write down on a piece of paper all the things that we like to do at each others house’s. She said that we could never go to her and say we’re bored again as we have a whole jar of things to do. Even now that we’re in our 40s we still talk about that jar and all the things that we did as kids to have fun.
We are a family of voracious readers and I have JUST come upon a book called Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield. It's over 100 years old and such a good book about a pampered 9 yr old girl who has a change of circumstances and learns to be responsible, independent, makes friends, and becomes happy! I'm reading this aloud to my girls and we really like it!
I was a child in the late 90s/early 00s and had an amazing childhood. My mom was a stay at home mom, so we would go swimming at our local lake multiple times a week, spent lots of time with my cousins, played in the neighborhood with all the neighborhood kids. I’ve never gone to a summer camp or had extracurricular activities in the summer. We just played and it was the best time
Oh my goodness! I’m an 80s kid and I remember going to church lock ins. And when we would get up the next morning the adults would take one of those huge rolls of trash bags and roll it down the hill, place a few hay bails at the bottom and have a water hose and Dawn dish soap. And we would slide down the hill. It was a BLAST! We would be covered in scrapes and bruises and plastic burn and grass burn but we didn’t care!
We had a public pool with a life guard- I don’t remember anyone drowning or the life guard ever even getting in the pool. My mom would take us and sit and read by the pool. When we were older we would ride our bikes and go by ourselves. Miss that world. I give my kid the freedom I can but it’s just not the same where I feel comfortable with her having that sort of freedom.
Just came across the awesome doll house we spent hours making as preteens. Made from shoe boxes, cloth scrap, paper and toothpicks and beads. It was so cool I'm 34 and still have it. We also spent countless hours making our own paper dolls....period ones in ballgowns and modern day ones in all the cool clothes we wished we had. We also had large scraps of cloth from my mom's work (think like shear drapes and silk table clothes) that we dress up in and trapes around the lawn with the neighbors pretending to be fairies or royalty. Old pots and pans outdoors to make all sorts of stews and meals from the weeds and ro KS and pinecone. I don't know when children stop playing imaginatively, but I feel like we for sure did through our preteen years and younger teen years.
Hahaha “if you are with child. Or with hamburger. I won’t judge”. Love this video and your channel. I just started watching and absolutely connect with your humor and insights.
I too was a child of the 80s and Loved my childhood summers! When I saw the title of this video I knew I was in for some good entertainment. I love your perspective and how animated you are when you do these videos. I laugh out loud at something when I watch your videos and just wanted to say I appreciate what you are bringing to this space!
Growing a garden and cooking with homegrown produce is what we’re doing! Plus tons of water play! Such a great video, Angela! Thanks for all the ideas!
I’m a 70s kid .but love the 80s and my kids are grown but have 5 grandkids 2 I have adopted . We watched Goonies last night and and my 5yr old granddaughter loves parent trap !! Going to get a mini projector and small screen for the back yard to watch movies ! Got a few more great ideas from you today .thanks!!
I LOVED this video Angela 💗 I was born in ‘89 so I barely make the “80’s” but I’m all about this “relaxed summer” vibe 😆 Definitely need to add several of these things to our summer days ☀️😘
Love these ideas!! I share your feelings about boredom! My memories of summer in the 70’s and 80’s…roller skating, riding my bike, climbing trees, making mud pies, and always reading like the Little House series or Little Women and Heidi!! ♥️
Yeah! Yeah! yeah!! That’s the way! As an 80’s kid there ain’t nothing like an 80’s summer! Every year our four kids get an 80’s style summer…. Probably because I don’t want to anything else but chill and enjoy! ❤️ Your style Ange this was a super fun video, love the music add ins. So cute and cool! Happy summer to you all- I’ll just live vicariously through you while I enjoy the cool breeze of the Queensland, Australian winter. Cold enough to enjoy winter cosy blankets but not too cold 🥶 we freeze.
I love all of your videos, Angie, but this one was one of my very favorites!! I was born in ‘78, and I loved the 80’s summers! I say this as my oldest son is taking a homeschool high school speech class for two weeks, and my oldest daughter is in competitive dance company and has dance intensives all this week. My younger son is going to church camp for a few days at the end of the month, and my youngest daughter was gifted a four-day dance camp for her birthday. All 4 of my children will be going out of town to my in-laws’ for a 5-day grandma camp. I really want to keep things simple in between these activities. I’m currently lying in bed suffering from a 3-day migraine (hormones, yay!🙄), and I so badly want to feel well, so I can read to my children and work on a family project together. I really want to make another attempt at a vegetable garden, but starting now in the Houston, TX heat is probably not a great idea! Thank you for making and sharing this video!! God bless your family... and your summer!☀️❤️
My daughter was born in 1980, we were discussing this very thing!! A certain amount of freedom that is now gone. And yes she turned out fine. My grandchildren are going to camp. LoL 😆
I have just discovered your chanel. Two years ago me and my husband have adopted 2 kids, and you are such an inspiration for me! Greetings from Poland :)
I was laughing out loud a lot during this video! Sooooo agree on letting kids be bored and telling them you’d have an idea if they bring it up 😀 Love how you said you are this little crazy that your kids don’t know what to expect 🤣 Thanks for the idea of letting your kids work out chores on their own and putting the initial there, that’s an awesome idea. One new thing we came up with lately and want to encourage even more throughout the summer is having “buddy time”. We assign always one older child to one younger for about 45 minutes (we have 6 between 0-9). That way I have time to focus on something important to me while we see how it encourages sibling relationships.
I do the same thing when my kids even think of throwing out the “B” word (BORED)!!!🤣 That’s why they’ve each only said it once!! I love what you’re doing with the chores...that’s a great idea, and I’m going to use it! Thank you for sharing! I’ve tried several different chore systems, and they’ve all had some success, but I have changed it multiple times to try to find, “the one”. Now, I just tweak the current one we’re using to make sure it’s age appropriate.
If you haven’t already, you should read Where the Red Fern Grows aloud to your kiddos. My 6th grade teacher read it to our class every day (in the 80’s actually 🤪), and I still remember loving it!
I hope my kids enjoy listening to stories, that is so beautiful. 😭😭 My little one is barely ready for her first beach trip but this was immensely helpful. I hope they have that tan dress in my size! Thanks!
I have a summer birthday and I made my own piñata with newspaper strips and flour and a punch ball balloon. It was a Walmart-looking smiley face. It did not bust very easy because the paper mache was like the work of block mason for a piñata, but it was fun to make and Dad helped me bust it out. 😅
“ if that’s you… carry on, no one wants to stop you” 🤣 I laughed out loud right when you said that because I feel the same way when I hear friends talking about how many camps their kids are attending this summer. You are hilarious.
Yep, the ‘80’s & early ‘90’s summers of my childhood were awesome! It was the best time of the year & I still love summer, even with the scorching heat & humidity of the south. SUMMER!!!🌺🌾☀️🌊🍉🍑🫐🌽🥗🍨🏕🇺🇸
"Only boring people get bored" My children thought I'm the only one that speaks like that, but here's.....Angela!😄 I'm used to playing outside and watching little TV, so I do the same for my children. Walmart is my go to place for almost everything. Sprinkler toys are lots of fun.
Love it. Sometimes I don’t allow, feel guilty, or give myself permission to do things from a place of rest and relaxation. This was a welcomed reminder 💝☀️🍉🍦to have fun and relax 😎.
Hands down one of your best videos ! Great advice and wonderful humor ! We forget to stop and enjoy the summer months and just be ! Thanks for the reminder and inspiration ❤️
A great read aloud is "A Cricket in Times Square" series. Our 5th grade teacher read these books to us and it is probably our favorite memory from that time.
I love this video thank you so much for sharing! I was born in 87 and can definitely remember the great summers we had as a big family of 7 and more. (my parents have a foster family) I was recently talking with my husband about not overbooking our summer and try to be present and spending lots of time outside
I love how your giving us tips on how to keep your children entertained but you have some hidden gems on how to look on the brighter side and deal with all your kids in the summer. (in a good way of course!) Have a great summer!
Angela as much as I love the whole "80's summer" thing, the main difference between now and then is the fact that most parents have to work full time. The economy is night and day since 30 years ago. It is just not possible to have 6 weeks off, we cannot work from home, hence the holiday clubs. Nowadays most people cannot afford a garden kids can stay outside all day long in, people are lucky to have any green space at all. I feel guilty I will never be able to replicate anything like the sort of childhood my kids have but of course I will try in any way I can.
Great ideas! Yes every self proclaimed bored child walked away with a task/chore to do. 😎 Also a great cheap fun thing is making things out of boxes. Today we always have boxes. Appliance stores will usually give away the big ones for free. Inside or outside. My kids loved this all summer. They built and redesigned them over and over. Pirate ship, grocery store, the only limit is their imagination.
Love this!!! I was an 80’s mom! We had a water slide park and my oldest worked and played in it all summer long. Getting to come inside was a luxury and she is still my most outdoor girl!!! Another fun thing was backyard camping and even the littles enjoyed those nights!!!
Also my Grandbaby just finished ISR and I am so thankful my daughter thought far enough ahead to enroll her. They have a pool in their backyard and are taking every precaution they can!
Anyone else’s dad and uncles live in those super short OP pro corduroy shorts? I grew up in Orange County and those shorts were good for all occasions in the summer. Skate boarding? OP pro shorts are short and don’t hinder your movement. Tanning? OP pro shorts were tiny. Going body surfing? Good, they dry fast. Let’s bring the OP pro shorts back!!
Love all this! I feel like every spring/summer I have to retrain my children to play outside more (esp. in the north)! Thank you for plugging in ISR!!! We moved and live near a river and I made ISR a top priority (one of the best investments I have ever made). Another fun water activity is a splash pad (we go the size that it recommends for dogs and it even sprays water). Highly recommend!!
80's kid!😎 It was way more relaxed and normal. No phones, no internet. Kids were very social, spent a ton of time outside and parents trusted us. We all ended up more than ok! I'd give anything to go back in time. Kids now have no idea how great it was. Love the Dodgeball reference!! 😂
I'm a 1980s kid 🙂 this was a good fun video!! Thank you! I do not like crazy busy schedules at all. ♡ Amber Smith on the Smith Family is a ISR advocate and has fund raisers! They list their 3yrs River to a pool drowning. The Smith family is amazing. ♡
I was born in the late 70s but still consider myself an 80s kid because that's what I remember, that's when my childhood was formed... there is absolutely NO TIME like the 80s, and even the 90s... ahhh! Such a simple time, but we WERE kids, after all. I love this video concept, can we have more 1980s style videos? lol Throwback to lots of cigarette smoke and endless amounts of Full House and The Goonies on TV!
I adore your sense of humor! And this is a fantastic video. I was born in the early 80’s and have so many wonderful memories of summer break. I definitely want to help create memories like that for my son.
I just love all your ideas, I’m 57, and our kids are in their 30’s and no where near being married yet with kids, so i am not a grand ma, but these ideas I will use for me and my hubby...80’s movie nights, more reading, water feature to install in my flower garden and just taking the time to sit down and enjoy the summer days and nights listening to old jazz music. Life is a gift and I will take the time to enjoy mine in 2022!
Love this! 🥰
I'm 49, kids in 20's with 2 grandkids and I love these ideas too!!!
I love your thinking!
When i was a kid in 90s new zealand our school receptionist would read roald dahl books over the school intercom every day throughout winter. We had to lie down on pillows and imagine the story. She had the most magical voice and has always stuck with me. She passed away recently. Reading aloud is so special for kids
My childhood of the sixties during summers sounds much like yours of the eighties: outdoors playing group games with all the neighbor kids, water games with the sprinkler and hose (what are pools!!??), parents largely absent (working), and boredom followed by creative bursts: build a fort, go inside (lovely box unit AC) and start a monoply or canasta tournament. Roller skate or ride bikes, even! We enjoyed not only the freedom but also the responsibility to entertain ourselves and structure our own time🙀
Yep. 80s kid here. I don’t ever remember my mom telling us to go outside. We just were always outside. I remember her having to make us come in to take showers/baths at the end of the day. We didn’t even have all the fun Walmart toys to keep us entertained but we did have 4 wheelers and many acres to ride on. Totally different life then what it is today!
"Just that little tinge of crazy".... YES! Mom of five and right there with you. Thank you... this made my day!
I love tip #7. I would like to add, if you didn’t have a fond childhood maybe focus on creating the childhood that you wished you had. This tip combo is perfect for me because I’m working on taking care of my inner child while also creating new memories with my family. Thank you for these tips! ❤️
I LOVE this! My whole goal as a mother is to be the mom I wish I had.
@@purpledol8455 sending you ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for highlighting this, that's my goal this summer too 😊
I love this! Super relatable
Love it! This was how I did summer as a child. The best. One more thing to add, indoor sheet forts on super hot days and an endless supply of otter pops!
I am a proud 80's child!
We have the best memories- 80's music and movies are the bomb. And yes we very independent, had the when-sun-comes down curfew and drinking from the hose.
Thanks for the fun nostalgic memories Angela!!
Embrace Boredom! That was my mother’s mantra in the summer. And we did. Summers were absolutely magical.
One Summer memory that "stuck" was the Summer my younger sister & I watched Grease 2 pretty much every time that it was on. But by the 13th time, my dad couldn't take it anymore & he unplugged the TV or the cable box 😂😂😂...one of the two!! Good times!!
60s kid here but always enjoyed catching fire flies (lightning bugs) at night, butterflies during the day and then looking them up and learning about them. Did you know fire flies have different flashing codes that are actually a way of finding a mate? Who knew!
We live in a dead end next to a playground. So I put sun screen on the kids, open the garden gate... and every now and then bring water and popsicles outside.
Oh, and sidewalk chalk. Also important! They can draw themselfs a whole world with them.
Haha “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!” Lmaoo I’ve definitely said this one 🤣 I love how genuine you are and how more relaxed you seem. I can definitely see your personality more in these newer videos and IM HERE FOR IT 🙌🏼
Loved this! My kids are screen addicts, it's so hard to pull them away. I didn't have an "ideal" childhood and I'm breaking a cycle here, so I try to do a lot of togetherness time. My son received a Nintendo Switch for his birthday and we ordered extra controllers and the board game edition bundles and we'll spend an hour or so before bedtime playing things like Monopoly or Risk. There are games my husband and I remember from when we were younger and the kids get their screen fix and we're all together laughing and making really simple and fun memories, it's a win win win.
I was adopted by much older parents. Whom I love very much.
So even though I was born 1990, technically I was raised in the 1950s LOL 😂
“Tinge of crazy” .... that’s brilliant!
Can I mention sprinkler under the trampoline! My kids love!!
This video cracked me up. A lot of not watching children 😂 I was born 1990 but 90s moms weren’t much different in my experience. It was wonderful 💛☀️
This video was perfect!! Hahaha
I’m a 90s kid and I wished my children had my childhood
Same
For moms of boys I would encourage them to learn how to play their boys favorite video game. When my 3 boys were6, 8 and 10 they were 100% about Minecraft and my husband learned to play. I quickly realized that I was going to be totally left out if I was unwilling to try, so I learned and 10 years later we still play! 🥰
Not just for boys- my girls love Minecraft and there's been lots of bonding between by husband and them playing together! I wish I could play- it makes me sort of nauseous, lol.
God bless you. I hate video games. 🤣🤣🤣
@@rebekahguilder602 ikr 😅
My son loves for me to play XBox with him but I think it stresses him out lol He grabs my controller to “help” me 🤪
I am an 80s kid too. I loved this video. When I was younger I went to a friends house and we did the whole I’m bored thing so the mum said that we all had to write down on a piece of paper all the things that we like to do at each others house’s. She said that we could never go to her and say we’re bored again as we have a whole jar of things to do. Even now that we’re in our 40s we still talk about that jar and all the things that we did as kids to have fun.
That’s cute!
Those special memories
I love the specification that you can have structure without micro-managment.
You are a fun mom! But also know when to control it and what it is important first. You do a great job.
We are a family of voracious readers and I have JUST come upon a book called Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield. It's over 100 years old and such a good book about a pampered 9 yr old girl who has a change of circumstances and learns to be responsible, independent, makes friends, and becomes happy! I'm reading this aloud to my girls and we really like it!
Thank you for that suggestion! I put the book in the Amazon cart just now! Always love an old book suggestion!
I was a child in the late 90s/early 00s and had an amazing childhood. My mom was a stay at home mom, so we would go swimming at our local lake multiple times a week, spent lots of time with my cousins, played in the neighborhood with all the neighborhood kids. I’ve never gone to a summer camp or had extracurricular activities in the summer. We just played and it was the best time
Oh my goodness! I’m an 80s kid and I remember going to church lock ins. And when we would get up the next morning the adults would take one of those huge rolls of trash bags and roll it down the hill, place a few hay bails at the bottom and have a water hose and Dawn dish soap. And we would slide down the hill. It was a BLAST! We would be covered in scrapes and bruises and plastic burn and grass burn but we didn’t care!
We had a public pool with a life guard- I don’t remember anyone drowning or the life guard ever even getting in the pool. My mom would take us and sit and read by the pool. When we were older we would ride our bikes and go by ourselves. Miss that world. I give my kid the freedom I can but it’s just not the same where I feel comfortable with her having that sort of freedom.
Family vacations! Playing in the beach with our cousins,thats my happy summer memories
Building forts!! Is it a lost art? It was what we did all summer and I mean with sticks, logs and whatever we could scrounge…bring it back!😁
Just came across the awesome doll house we spent hours making as preteens. Made from shoe boxes, cloth scrap, paper and toothpicks and beads. It was so cool I'm 34 and still have it. We also spent countless hours making our own paper dolls....period ones in ballgowns and modern day ones in all the cool clothes we wished we had. We also had large scraps of cloth from my mom's work (think like shear drapes and silk table clothes) that we dress up in and trapes around the lawn with the neighbors pretending to be fairies or royalty. Old pots and pans outdoors to make all sorts of stews and meals from the weeds and ro KS and pinecone. I don't know when children stop playing imaginatively, but I feel like we for sure did through our preteen years and younger teen years.
Hahaha “if you are with child. Or with hamburger. I won’t judge”. Love this video and your channel. I just started watching and absolutely connect with your humor and insights.
I too was a child of the 80s and Loved my childhood summers! When I saw the title of this video I knew I was in for some good entertainment. I love your perspective and how animated you are when you do these videos. I laugh out loud at something when I watch your videos and just wanted to say I appreciate what you are bringing to this space!
You should do a video like this every season!
I laughed so much you're awesome thank you for the ideas!
Growing a garden and cooking with homegrown produce is what we’re doing! Plus tons of water play! Such a great video, Angela! Thanks for all the ideas!
We are definitely planning on spending more time at home this summer. Gas prices helped make that decision. 😋
You seem so alive I could cry. Where have you been friend?! This was hugely helpful to a FTM. Thank you!!!
I’m a 70s kid .but love the 80s and my kids are grown but have 5 grandkids 2 I have adopted . We watched Goonies last night and and my 5yr old granddaughter loves parent trap !! Going to get a mini projector and small screen for the back yard to watch movies ! Got a few more great ideas from you today .thanks!!
I LOVED this video Angela 💗 I was born in ‘89 so I barely make the “80’s” but I’m all about this “relaxed summer” vibe 😆 Definitely need to add several of these things to our summer days ☀️😘
1989 girl here too! 🙋🏻♀️
Love these ideas!! I share your feelings about boredom! My memories of summer in the 70’s and 80’s…roller skating, riding my bike, climbing trees, making mud pies, and always reading like the Little House series or Little Women and Heidi!! ♥️
I love how much your personality came out in this video! Great tips!
Don’t forget Pretty in Pink and Ferris… recently watched with my teen💗
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club!
Yeah! Yeah! yeah!! That’s the way! As an 80’s kid there ain’t nothing like an 80’s summer! Every year our four kids get an 80’s style summer…. Probably because I don’t want to anything else but chill and enjoy! ❤️ Your style Ange this was a super fun video, love the music add ins. So cute and cool! Happy summer to you all- I’ll just live vicariously through you while I enjoy the cool breeze of the Queensland, Australian winter. Cold enough to enjoy winter cosy blankets but not too cold 🥶 we freeze.
Wow
Never too old to learn. True.
I love all of your videos, Angie, but this one was one of my very favorites!! I was born in ‘78, and I loved the 80’s summers! I say this as my oldest son is taking a homeschool high school speech class for two weeks, and my oldest daughter is in competitive dance company and has dance intensives all this week. My younger son is going to church camp for a few days at the end of the month, and my youngest daughter was gifted a four-day dance camp for her birthday. All 4 of my children will be going out of town to my in-laws’ for a 5-day grandma camp. I really want to keep things simple in between these activities. I’m currently lying in bed suffering from a 3-day migraine (hormones, yay!🙄), and I so badly want to feel well, so I can read to my children and work on a family project together. I really want to make another attempt at a vegetable garden, but starting now in the Houston, TX heat is probably not a great idea! Thank you for making and sharing this video!! God bless your family... and your summer!☀️❤️
"Bored" is a curse word in our house. Thank you for your chore list ideas. We will be implementing them soon!
Yes ISR swim is a must with small children!
My daughter was born in 1980, we were discussing this very thing!! A certain amount of freedom that is now gone. And yes she turned out fine. My grandchildren are going to camp. LoL 😆
I have just discovered your chanel. Two years ago me and my husband have adopted 2 kids, and you are such an inspiration for me! Greetings from Poland :)
I was laughing out loud a lot during this video! Sooooo agree on letting kids be bored and telling them you’d have an idea if they bring it up 😀
Love how you said you are this little crazy that your kids don’t know what to expect 🤣
Thanks for the idea of letting your kids work out chores on their own and putting the initial there, that’s an awesome idea.
One new thing we came up with lately and want to encourage even more throughout the summer is having “buddy time”. We assign always one older child to one younger for about 45 minutes (we have 6 between 0-9). That way I have time to focus on something important to me while we see how it encourages sibling relationships.
I do the same thing when my kids even think of throwing out the “B” word (BORED)!!!🤣 That’s why they’ve each only said it once!! I love what you’re doing with the chores...that’s a great idea, and I’m going to use it! Thank you for sharing! I’ve tried several different chore systems, and they’ve all had some success, but I have changed it multiple times to try to find, “the one”. Now, I just tweak the current one we’re using to make sure it’s age appropriate.
This video is everything I needed! Happy summer to everyone!
If you haven’t already, you should read Where the Red Fern Grows aloud to your kiddos. My 6th grade teacher read it to our class every day (in the 80’s actually 🤪), and I still remember loving it!
I love your analogy of Momma being just a little bit crazy. That is SO me, and it is frankly very satisfying to hear it from another momma! ❤️
I hope my kids enjoy listening to stories, that is so beautiful. 😭😭 My little one is barely ready for her first beach trip but this was immensely helpful. I hope they have that tan dress in my size! Thanks!
I have a summer birthday and I made my own piñata with newspaper strips and flour and a punch ball balloon. It was a Walmart-looking smiley face. It did not bust very easy because the paper mache was like the work of block mason for a piñata, but it was fun to make and Dad helped me bust it out. 😅
THANKS!! I bought a huge dinosaur dart board with velcro balls off Amazon for outside. They love it!
“ if that’s you… carry on, no one wants to stop you” 🤣 I laughed out loud right when you said that because I feel the same way when I hear friends talking about how many camps their kids are attending this summer. You are hilarious.
Yep, the ‘80’s & early ‘90’s summers of my childhood were awesome! It was the best time of the year & I still love summer, even with the scorching heat & humidity of the south. SUMMER!!!🌺🌾☀️🌊🍉🍑🫐🌽🥗🍨🏕🇺🇸
"Only boring people get bored" My children thought I'm the only one that speaks like that, but here's.....Angela!😄
I'm used to playing outside and watching little TV, so I do the same for my children. Walmart is my go to place for almost everything. Sprinkler toys are lots of fun.
Love it. Sometimes I don’t allow, feel guilty, or give myself permission to do things from a place of rest and relaxation. This was a welcomed reminder 💝☀️🍉🍦to have fun and relax 😎.
Hands down one of your best videos ! Great advice and wonderful humor ! We forget to stop and enjoy the summer months and just be ! Thanks for the reminder and inspiration ❤️
A great read aloud is "A Cricket in Times Square" series. Our 5th grade teacher read these books to us and it is probably our favorite memory from that time.
We just started reading these for the 2nd time! We love this series! So cute and funny.
I love this video thank you so much for sharing!
I was born in 87 and can definitely remember the great summers we had as a big family of 7 and more. (my parents have a foster family)
I was recently talking with my husband about not overbooking our summer and try to be present and spending lots of time outside
My kids never say they’re bored because then they’ll have to work too 😆
I love how your giving us tips on how to keep your children entertained but you have some hidden gems on how to look on the brighter side and deal with all your kids in the summer. (in a good way of course!)
Have a great summer!
You spark (joy :-) ) inner peace and fun right now, somewhat even more than usual 😊
Angela as much as I love the whole "80's summer" thing, the main difference between now and then is the fact that most parents have to work full time. The economy is night and day since 30 years ago. It is just not possible to have 6 weeks off, we cannot work from home, hence the holiday clubs. Nowadays most people cannot afford a garden kids can stay outside all day long in, people are lucky to have any green space at all. I feel guilty I will never be able to replicate anything like the sort of childhood my kids have but of course I will try in any way I can.
From 1977-1980 my mother sent me for 8 weeks @ sleep away camp The best 8 weeks of the summer ❣️☮️❣️💟❣️✝️❣️
Thank you for amazing and entertaining videos. You are definitely a breath of fresh air. 😊
Great talk ...I could listen to you all day long!!
Great ideas! Yes every self proclaimed bored child walked away with a task/chore to do. 😎 Also a great cheap fun thing is making things out of boxes. Today we always have boxes. Appliance stores will usually give away the big ones for free. Inside or outside. My kids loved this all summer. They built and redesigned them over and over. Pirate ship, grocery store, the only limit is their imagination.
Love this!!! I was an 80’s mom! We had a water slide park and my oldest worked and played in it all summer long. Getting to come inside was a luxury and she is still my most outdoor girl!!! Another fun thing was backyard camping and even the littles enjoyed those nights!!!
Also my Grandbaby just finished ISR and I am so thankful my daughter thought far enough ahead to enroll her. They have a pool in their backyard and are taking every precaution they can!
Anyone else’s dad and uncles live in those super short OP pro corduroy shorts? I grew up in Orange County and those shorts were good for all occasions in the summer. Skate boarding? OP pro shorts are short and don’t hinder your movement. Tanning? OP pro shorts were tiny. Going body surfing? Good, they dry fast. Let’s bring the OP pro shorts back!!
Love all this! I feel like every spring/summer I have to retrain my children to play outside more (esp. in the north)! Thank you for plugging in ISR!!! We moved and live near a river and I made ISR a top priority (one of the best investments I have ever made).
Another fun water activity is a splash pad (we go the size that it recommends for dogs and it even sprays water). Highly recommend!!
Children can’t save themselves and they should never be left alone near water and if you have a pool it should have a fence and pool,cover
80's kid!😎 It was way more relaxed and normal. No phones, no internet. Kids were very social, spent a ton of time outside and parents trusted us. We all ended up more than ok! I'd give anything to go back in time. Kids now have no idea how great it was.
Love the Dodgeball reference!! 😂
I loved this! You are so funny and full of wisdom. Thanks for always pouring into us!
I'm a 1980s kid 🙂 this was a good fun video!! Thank you! I do not like crazy busy schedules at all. ♡
Amber Smith on the Smith Family is a ISR advocate and has fund raisers! They list their 3yrs River to a pool drowning. The Smith family is amazing. ♡
Once again Angie you had me smiling and laughing! Love this video! So many great ideas! And I found myself nodding and saying YES!
Loved this video! Awesome ideas. My kids know to never tell me they are bored, they will definitely get a chore. 😄
No joke, this is my new favorite from you! Love all the ideas and the product links! Not to mention, loving the vibe and jokes (with hamburger 😂).
just that little tinge of crazy
I was born in the late 70s but still consider myself an 80s kid because that's what I remember, that's when my childhood was formed... there is absolutely NO TIME like the 80s, and even the 90s... ahhh! Such a simple time, but we WERE kids, after all. I love this video concept, can we have more 1980s style videos? lol Throwback to lots of cigarette smoke and endless amounts of Full House and The Goonies on TV!
Yes! This sounds like a summer of perfection!
I raised my kids in the 80’s and 90’s. Good times for sure!! Now I have six grandkids and love our summertimes
After watching this video I wanna go watch never ending story. Loved watching those movies as a child in the 80s.
Ahhh I am definitely in a “with hamburger” phase. Love this vid and your humor!!
This is great! We all need extra ideas in the summer.
Love the “ little tinge of crazy” 🤣. Keeps everyone on their toes! With 3 teenagers…I get it!
I love love your energy in this video and it did brought me back down memory lane when spending summer holidays at grandparents 😍.
I adore your sense of humor! And this is a fantastic video. I was born in the early 80’s and have so many wonderful memories of summer break. I definitely want to help create memories like that for my son.
Framework, exactly 👏🏻👏🏻
Your totally cracking me up!!! Love this!
"Just crazy enough"... Sounds like my method, too. 🤣
SO GOOD!! Thank you for all of this! I'm going to watch it all over again right now!
You are just delightful. Loved this.
One of the best videos I've ever seen!! Thanks
“Just crazy enough” 🤣🤣
I love your new hair color. Looks great on you.
80s we’re the best of EVERYTHING
This my have been my favorite video of 2022. The dress try-on got me 😂. Thanks for the tips!
Ikr 😂
Fun frozen treats: frozen bananas or grapes, popsicles made from fruit juice or pudding, and ice cream sandwiches made from cookies and ice cream.
You always have fresh ideas! This is a super fun idea and convo!