How to relax over the weekend with parents
In this section, we talk about how to relax over the weekend in different life circumstances. Simply put, we give advice for all occasions - what to do so that by Monday morning not to feel overwhelmed and not to be ashamed of the senselessly spent weekend.
Everyone knows this nagging feeling before going to their parents for the weekend. Even if you live in the same city, even if the relationship with them is very good. How to spend two days with adult relatives so that you can relax with them and not compromise with your conscience in the form of concerts of the stars of the 70s? We offer a list of activities with parents that allow you to relax and have fun. And along the way we will give advice, which is definitely not worth doing, so that everyone is good.
Cooking dinner together, allowing parents to lead the process.
We all remember how parents (most likely, mother) taught us to cook in childhood. As the flour scattered on the apron, the apples were cut into hours - even squares, as they were taught on geometry, and the eggs fell together with the shell and so were beaten. Mom pretended not to notice, and the resulting charlotte was inedible. Most likely, parents still cook better than us, but this time family therapy is more likely to end with a grandiose dinner. To be near, but not to interfere, to allow parents to captain in the kitchen and, at the end of the day, to enjoy delicious food is so easy and so effective. Even psychotherapists offer to engage in joint cooking, reasonably assuming that the overall result brings together. Some, by the way, are helped by another kind of home leisure along with their parents - spring-cleaning, which introduces all participants in the meditative state.
Go together for a capital purchase and help her choose
Our parents love things for centuries: a sofa that costs four wages and goes under the tag "I want to die on it", a TV whose screen size is inversely proportional to wanting to watch it, and wide gestures that it is so nice to render. We love to advise, and this is the very moment when our need for admonitions coincides with parental confusion - it used to be “expensive” meant quality, but now the high price guarantees little, apart from paying a subsequent loan for a purchase. You can help them choose anything from furniture to technology, and by understanding the features of the latest multi-cooker, you can transplant parents to the most convenient way of cooking. Although it is better not to, because when they fail to do something, you will have to master the slow cooker.
Watch sports with parents on TV or, ideally, go to a match
If you have never seen sobbing adult men, then pay attention to your father when he watches the World Cup in volleyball, where the Russian women's team beats the Brazilian. Or, for example, watch him fall asleep in a boxing match between Klitschko and Povetkin. When the female half of the family is keen on sports, then it is a little more difficult: women are ill with a point, they don’t need partners, they have already formed an opinion and you will only disturb them. Ideally, if you also like sports, buy two tickets to your parents' favorite sport, be it hockey (do not take faraway places, you can't see much from the net), football (check the existence of places, otherwise you will be deceived by contributors the author of these lines at the match "Rubin" - "Inter") or boxing. Even those who are indifferent to the sport will enjoy the novelty of sensations - a huge crowd of people united by a single attribute, frantically rooting for their favorite team and ready to die for it. There are no minuses in a joint campaign for a match - even if “your” team loses, nothing unites them more than a general disappointment from someone else’s wrongdoing.
Play Scrabble
Adults hate board games. Our parents hate board games. All board games in general, except for "Scrabble". For patriots there is a version called "Scrabble" and it is not much different from "Scrabble" - 225 squares, in which participants spread letters, making words from them. According to the traditions of Russian linguistic games, you can only use nominal nouns in the nominative case (not names and not names), and the Scrabble game is the kindest and innocuous leisure time in the world - families swear because of chess, checkers, table games football, but few people can quarrel over a cute intellectual game that doesn’t bother anyone. Remember that parents can be cunning creatures and try to peek into the dictionary, so pretend that you have not noticed, and show them a list of rules that cheating is strictly prohibited. No gadgets and distractions - only you, parents and the game.
Buy food to order and watch a movie together
To introduce parents into the wonderful world of food delivery is a pleasure at the level of finding a new continent. We must be prepared for the fact that they will be suspicious of images on the Internet, promising an incredible evenness of khinkali and salads from the freshest vegetables, so you and the Village exist for help. You should not order dishes — potential competitors: if your mother prepares delicious shanezhki and your dad is an expert on Korean cuisine, then any parent will suspect that you are a traitor to deliver ramen (Korean noodles in broth with spices, green onions and boiled egg). Combining a sample of food to order with watching a movie is priceless, any film from the era of classical Hollywood or a romc from the 90s goes well - universal triggers of emotion, regardless of age, upbringing and background.
Arrange a cultural trip
There is one cultural code that all parents read - classical theater productions, especially The Three Sisters and, wait for it, The Cherry Orchard. You have to be more careful with ballet, but to be honest, it’s better to sort it out before leading you somewhere. Classical music concerts go well if you mean an orchestra as music, and a choir as a concert: mass performances hypnotically act on adults, especially when the military perform. The museum will be interesting to mom, and for fathers, they are similar to shopping trips, where there are a lot of beautiful things in a static position that need to be considered. The joint introduction to the culture is a win-win for any weekend, it helps to find common topics for conversation for a long time after them and, eventually, enriches the whole family.
Go to breakfast at the cafe
For the third time, the item on the list of holidays with parents is devoted to food, and it is no coincidence - gluttony strengthens relationships and allows you to meet more often. Most likely, parents rarely spend money on restaurants and “non-homemade food”, but they know that going to a cafe has long been part of our lifestyle style. They will definitely be pleased to be invited to their favorite place: on the one hand, this is a way out, and on the other - an easy and enjoyable episode, unlike a serious restaurant with arrogant waiters and an unusual menu that can confuse.
Take a car in the near joint trip
For many residents of large cities, traveling with their parents most often consists of a trip to the dacha, where the family cooks shish-kebabs, mom plants flowers, children water the bushes, and dad smokes a pipe in a rocking chair. For the majority of the population of cities, smaller trips to the dacha turn into trips to a vegetable garden, where in May the whole family plant potatoes and other vegetables together, and in September digs them together. Replacing the heavy duty of traveling with parents to the country-garden can be a joint and non-binding departure to the conditional "cultural suburbs", in other words, out of town - to Kolomna and Sergiev Posad. Such "suburbs" is near any city, you just need to search. There you will breathe fresh air in exactly the same way, but at the same time you will not bale each other because of unevenly trimmed bushes and poorly weeded irises. In addition, this small trip is suitable for those who are not ready to go with their parents for a week at sea due to financial or other circumstances.