Working parent's guide to weekend fun
Working parent's guide to weekend fun (ages 5 to 8) by Naomi Williams Last updated: December 2005 Tackle some tasks during the week Complete a few critical chores during the week, and come Saturday morning you'll both have breathing room and be grateful for it. • Schedule certain tasks to occur on certain days every week. Jonathan Yackel, a computer science professor in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and father to three young children, does the weekly grocery shopping for the family on his way home from work every Monday. "I do it by myself, so it's a lot faster than doing it with the kids," he says. He gets home later on Mondays as a result, but it frees him and his wife Lisa, a veterinarian, from having to fit this task into the weekend. • Tak