Thursday, December 22, 2022
These vacation days are many grandparents who are in charge of taking care of the grandchildren in case the parents do not have days off. Keeping children entertained can be quite a challenge despite the many Christmas options available, which is why we propose different ways to spend that time together in a fun way for everyone.
Most of the little ones love crafts and it is an activity that they can enjoy a lot with the grandparents. You don’t need many materials, just a piece of cardboard, or even a piece of paper, pens and paints. The grandchildren will be able to learn more about their ancestors, where their last names come from, what relationship each one has with each other… And the grandparents will be able to remember a lot of stories about each relative that they will surely love.
In most houses there are a lot of old photos on paper, from that time when we still took the reels to develop. Organizing them with the little ones while we explain when the snapshots were taken is a great way to spend the afternoon on any winter vacation day.
Surely your grandmother has a recipe stored in her memory that you associate with her as soon as it is mentioned to you. For some it will be the croquettes, for others the donuts, or for others the cake that you always ate for Christmas breakfast… Preparing this recipe with your mom is a precious way to continue maintaining it in successive generations.
The broom, the cinquillo, the tute or the brisca… are card games of a lifetime and that grandparents have traditionally taught their grandchildren. In a world in which images take up more and more space in our daily lives, resuming this type of game serves to perpetuate them over time, as well as having a good time of family fun.
Currently there are many specialized shops that sell seeds or small trees that can be grown and cared for at home, without having to have a very large space for it. Starting a small garden at home with the little ones can have multiple positive effects, apart from spending time together. They will be able to learn about plants, fruits and vegetables and eating them when they bear fruit will be a great pleasure.
Most of our neighborhoods and towns have changed a lot in the last 30 or 40 years. The corner store where you bought the newspaper and bread no longer exists, the bodeguilla where the wine was refilled by liters with your own glass bottle has given way to a different business, or the houses a couple of heights The ones your friends lived in have been torn down to build new blocks or a green area. Going through these areas with the grandchildren is a very nice way to not lose the memory of those places and for the little ones to know what life was like for their little ones at their age.
And if the grandchildren teach the aitites? Not only can we learn from the elderly, we can also learn a lot from children. The current generation comes with technology under its arms and many of us who are over 40 and 50 sometimes choke on certain things. Letting them teach us what games they like, what applications they use and why or how to do certain things on a tablet or mobile can introduce us to their world without forcing it and make them feel important.