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Kids, Indoor Sports and Toddlers

How to Make Everybody Happy

By Kelly Burgess

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  • Choose your seats carefully. Francis suggests never sitting in the middle of the bleachers (or auditorium) with a newly potty trained child. In an auditorium, try sitting toward the back. In bleacher seating, sit as close as possible to the bottom.

    • I'm There for You Babe, Sort Of
    The biggest challenge Francis ever faced was swimming lessons because her younger kids always wanted to jump in the pool. It was complicated by the fact that the pool area was overly warm, which contributed to crankiness and restlessness.

    "I finally gave up on the idea that we were ever going to be able to sit in a poolside setting without my being sweaty and stressed out the whole time," Francis says. "I started leaving the little boys in the on-site nursery or signing them up for their own activities during lessons, or we'd sit in the windowed area outside the pool to watch, rather than go inside."

    Stanton says the first thing any mom has to do is to realize that often you just won't be able to focus your undivided attention on the performing child, and that child may notice and comment on that. Don't feel bad; instead, focus on what you do see.

    "I tell [my son] I'm doing the best I can, and that I'm very good at paying attention to many things at once," Stanton says. "That said, I also try to play up what I did see to cover up for what I didn't."

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