Murphy's Laws for Moms

I used to get frustrated when my parents would tell me that they were doing something just to make me ask questions - this was always said to me with a thick coating of sarcasm.  Yet, as a parent, I find myself doing almost the exact same thing as I attempt to introduce some humor into some of the more mundane games that I play with my children. Don't get me wrong.  I love playing with my children, but there are only so many times I can play Candy Land, dress up and have a tea party, or even play hopscotch with my kids before I find myself trying to re-imagine the game into something a bit more exciting for me, as an adult.  I find myself changing the "rules" of play and suddenly we're having a lesson on gravity because our Mars tea party is causing all of our tea cups and tea to float away (not to mention the difficulty drinking tea through a space helmet).  My favorite way to change things up with my kids is through hopscotch.  After all, there are numerou...

Here's yet another way to help kids learn through hopscotch...or have them tell you that you don't know how to count.

My kids and I love to play outside. And, one of the activities we most love to do is play hopscotch.  It's a great activity to teach numbers, processes, coordination and taking turns.  As my children have grown, I've allowed them to draw their own hopscotches to practice drawing squares and writing numbers.   However, hopscotch can become a monotonous activity.  So, to keep it fun, I like to change up the rules every now and then.  Instead of just counting numerically from 1 to 10, we find other ways to count.  Here is this week's counting activity.  Let's see if you can figure out what we were counting! Hopscotch: The Murphy's Laws for Moms Way