Twice weekly testing 😬

How are all the NSW mums feeling about the twice weekly testing starting for our school kids?

Having 4 little ones to be honest I’m a little nervous about how we are going to juggle the chaos that the morning brings, let alone two girls emotions with starting kindy and a boy who doesn’t like any change having a new teacher, new classroom etc, let alone working out how we will get them all on board to take these tests 😩

So far we have been incredibly lucky with the Macdonald’s bribes or specials treats on the rare occasion they have needed testing, but I’m sure once they have had to do it for the second time that week there will be out right “no’s!” for doing more testing.

It’s so hard isn’t it.

But hey, at least mums aren’t normally stressed with a million things to do and think about. I mean there’s nothing to prepare for in terms of the start of school anyways. So surely we have heaps of capacity to take on these awesome new challenges 🥴

Then again we have survived going into our 3rd year of this craziness.

At the moment our toy safe has been working well for treats for good behaviour. They get to put a code into the toy safe (from Kmart), if they have cleaned their room, or unpacked the dishwasher without being asked (or sleeping through in their own beds, that’s a whole other blog post ha). Inside the safe will be a small treat or a previously confiscated toy haha. I’m hoping that this will help us during the testing. Fingers crossed!!!

How are you thinking of handling it in your household? Any tips of tricks to share?

Stay safe everyone and good luck 💕🙌🏻💪🏻

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