Good evening everyone. Trust your day was great.
Please I need advice or suggestions. Got my brothers two daughters living with me and my wife. They are gonna stay awhile. We are living a very private life here. We don't go outside gate. After work, me and my wife stays in. This kids got to play a lot when they were with my brother but that not happening here. Like right now, after dinner, they are just sitting down folding their hands, just sitting, doing nothing. So I'm thinking of what I can get for them to play with till they goes to bed.
Please someone should suggest for me. Can't watch them just sitting for three hours, just sitting because we eat our dinner by 6:30, goes to bed by 9:30.
Thanks everyone.

How old are your nieces?

Get them:
1. Affordable I-pads
2. Story books
3. On cartoon network
4. Buy toys
5. Allow them to play outside

a different activity each day of the week:

- educative board games
- painting/drawing etc
- help cleaning the house
- help cooking dinner
- help with school lessons (math/English etc)
- professor teaching a new language
- professor teaching a musical instrument

swaley:
How old are your nieces?

Why are you asking for their age Oloko give away

I hate to interfere on people's choice of life

IyaebeTheGreat:
Why are you asking for their age Oloko give away

Very important question for sensible people but you aren't one

garriAndsugar:

Very important question for sensible people but you aren't one

Says a loser. Tinubu in your faces till 2021. Come and force me to stop supporting him let me see.

Take your ignorance to the politics section

IyaebeTheGreat:
Says a loser. Tinubu in your faces till 2021. Come and force me to stop supporting him let me see.

swaley:
How old are your nieces?

12 and 8 years respectively.

MrBrownJay1:
a different activity each day of the week:

- educative board games
- painting/drawing etc
- help cleaning the house
- help cooking dinner
- help with school lessons (math/English etc)
- professor teaching a new language
- professor teaching a musical instrument

Thanks so much. They got things doing during the day but after dinner is when they sit idle, doing nothing. Before they got a break from their school, there are a lot of activities for them after school ( home work, assignment and all that ) but same thing still happens after dinner. After dinner is only when they don't do a thing. Though I got to noticed this now when electricity was bad, for about 5 days now, no light so I do not put on TV from 6 upward so as to save the battery ( solar ) to power the house till the next morning.

SpaceXR:

Thanks so much. They got things doing during the day but after dinner is when they sit idle, doing nothing. Before they got a break from their school, there are a lot of activities for them after school ( home work, assignment and all that ) but same thing still happens after dinner. After dinner is only when they don't do a thing. Though I got to noticed this now when electricity was bad, for about 5 days now, no light so I do not put on TV from 6 upward so as to save the battery ( solar ) to power the house till the next morning.

Una no get graphic novels to read? Dem no fit go library go borrow books read ?

Blackdeewhy:
Get them:
1. Affordable I-pads
2. Story books
3. On cartoon network
4. Buy toys
5. Allow them to play outside

Thanks my sister. My house is gated. And all other houses, no kid play outside. They got to do things during the day. Put water on flowers, runs round the house, the older one teaches the younger one and TV but after dinner which we usually eat by 6:30. They do nothing till we goes to bed. I mean just sitting down doing nothing. I'm gonna go with what you have suggested..thanks once again.

Kobojunkie:
Una no get graphic novels to read? Dem no fit go library go borrow books read ?

I can get them one.

SpaceXR:
Good evening everyone. Trust your day was great.
Please I need advice or suggestions. Got my brothers two daughters living with me and my wife. They are gonna stay awhile. We are living a very private life here. We don't go outside gate. After work, me and my wife stays in. This kids got to play a lot when they were with my brother but that not happening here. Like right now, after dinner, they are just sitting down folding their hands, just sitting, doing nothing. So I'm thinking of what I can get for them to play with till they goes to bed.
Please someone should suggest for me. Can't watch them just sitting for three hours, just sitting because we eat our dinner by 6:30, goes to bed by 9:30.
Thanks everyone.

If you don't have cable TV like DStv, gotv and the likes, get one for them. They'll definitely find a particular program irresistible. That should relieve them of the boredom.

Alternatively, you can take the whole family out for picnics on weekends and have fun in whatever way you feel.

LMAO I can relate sha

SpaceXR:

I can get them one.

If una get library around, that would turn out a lot cheaper depending on how long they will be staying.

I saw on the front page something about parenting and technology or so
I think you should look for it. You will likely learn one or two

You should avoid giving them gadget or something relating to that so that when they go back they won't start asking their parents for it.. but rather buy them books or educative stuff that they can go back with after their stay.

Nazgul:

If you don't have cable TV like DStv, gotv and the likes, get one for them. They'll definitely find a particular program irresistible. That should relieve them of the boredom.

Alternatively, you can take the whole family out for picnics on weekends and have fun in whatever way you feel.

Alright thanks for your contribution.

vincenteger:
I saw on the front page something about parenting and technology or so
I think you should look for it. You will likely learn one or two

You should avoid giving them gadget or something relating to that so that when they go back they won't start asking their parents for it.. but rather buy them books or educative stuff that they can go back with after their stay.

Ok thanks so much.

SpaceXR:

Ok thanks so much.

Something else you could do is purchase drawing pad, pencil and crayon and ask them to draw their own graphic novels after reading a couple of them for themselves. Spark their creativity.

Also, consider engaging them in container or sack gardening in the back yard.

Kobojunkie:
If una get library around, that would turn out a lot cheaper depending on how long they will be staying.

i know day you no dey Naija but why you dey do like say you no know say library no dey?

Nothing to do since there is no light.

Let them go to their room, they will gist till they fall asleep.

garriAndsugar:

i know day you no dey Naija but why you dey do like say you no know say library no dey?

Library dey for even Ikorodu - Towards ebute areas - back when me sef dey grow up for naija. So Why library no go dey again?

Kobojunkie:
Library dey back when me sef dey grow up for naija. So Why library no go dey again?

That was then

garriAndsugar:

That was then

Then when? Why una destroy libraries?

Why not just walk them around for an hour before bed?

IyaebeTheGreat:
Why are you asking for their age Oloko give away

Mynd44, OAM4J, Justwise Seun rule number 2

SpaceXR:
Good evening everyone. Trust your day was great.
Please I need advice or suggestions. Got my brothers two daughters living with me and my wife. They are gonna stay awhile. We are living a very private life here. We don't go outside gate. After work, me and my wife stays in. This kids got to play a lot when they were with my brother but that not happening here. Like right now, after dinner, they are just sitting down folding their hands, just sitting, doing nothing. So I'm thinking of what I can get for them to play with till they goes to bed.
Please someone should suggest for me. Can't watch them just sitting for three hours, just sitting because we eat our dinner by 6:30, goes to bed by 9:30.
Thanks everyone.

You can get an iPad with home internet connection for them to browse about educational things

They can link up on U-lesson for online teaching

You can subscribe on pay TV for them to watch stations if there is steady light

You can get bicycle for them to drive round the compound if there is space

When you register them for schooling, let them join lessons in school that will carry them till 5pm when you guys will be back home

By the time they get home had their dinner, the next thing is sleeping straight to bed

SpaceXR:

12 and 8 years respectively.

well maybe you can get board games like chess or scrabble to sharpen their minds since they still young

Try get dstv or gotv for them to entertain themselves. In addiction, you guys should visit shopright or other big shopping mall just to look around. Please don't infect them with your reserve kind of life. Try to have fun. When one hustle well, it's nice to enjoy the money by exploring things outside.

Why is your brother not looking after his own children? This is how it starts.