Hello helpme
Firstly welcome to One Space!
I am sorry you are feeling so lonely right now, it sounds very stressful. You have a lifeline through the Internet and it is great that you have joined this site.
I am wondering about your son's school: how does he get there and has he got some friends there whose parents have cars? ;) Can you join the Parent Teacher organisation? Or volunteer to help with something in school or the local town? I know that if you go to different organisations and say I want to help but I have no transport then sometimes there are lifts available. I dont know if you have any interest in things religious but I do have to say that local churches are often very good places to meet people and include you in their community.
Louise :)
Hi
What does your son enjoy doing that you could do with him? My youngest and would do loads with Lego. I used to do loads of jigsaws too, which you can get in charity shops.
My youngest (sorry, I know its so much easier for me, just my youngest plays a lot on his own - he's 10) plays on Club Penguin on-line. I have a penguin too! Very sad, that's how lonely I get!
Is is safe to cycle in your area? We have picnics too - weather not always co-operative, sadly.
It must be so difficult for you at the mo, with things being so different.
I'm so sorry that you've split with your partner. You must be feeling so sad too.
Internet is my lifeline and my social life.
Loads of hugs and best wishes (virtual, but heartfelt)
Hi helpme
TV is ok! Well it is always a good talking point about morals and values, rights and wrongs of the world!
Sharing the computer is good too, have a look at our Family Fun section in the Info Library, there are a couple of suggestions there of things to do with your children, also there is Fun, Free & Creative things to do with your kids in the Just for Fun section of the Online Groups. Have a root around and see if there is anything that you might enjoy doing together.
Let us know if you do any of the ideas and how they go. :)
Hi,
I don't know if its possible, practical or suitable for you where you live, but get a tent and go camping, wild camping, it's free! that's what me and mine do a lot. Last year I splashed out on a good tent and some sleeping bags, it was a bit on the expensive side but money well spent.
Just this weekend me and my son went up into the mountains, one kilometre high and camped over night, it's fun and free! technical illegal but having said that the police helicopter flew over us twice on Saturday evening and waved, so I don't suppose they care, just so long as you take all your rubbish with you and don't kill any of the wild life : )
Personally I wish I lived in a house in the middle of nowhere, miles from anyone, I envy you!
: )
Great idea bubblegum! That sounds like sooo much fun!
I have taken my daughter camping regularly over the years, each year I have bought a new item for our camping gear, from tarporline to mosquito candles, last year was a new windbreak and I am now finally convinced I have everything I need for our trips. We love it.
The only thing that annoys me is the price of camping has just gone up and up over the years, I don't have the outward bound sort of personality so camping off a site would not really be my style, but I am sure it must be far more exciting and freeing! :)
It is : )
We walk until either its getting too dark or I can take the whinging no more and we camp, you know like when its a car journey and children are going are we there yet? when will we be there? well mine are like that when walking up mountains and I just say, see that peak over there, as I point off into the distance at some mist covered peak, and after them finally working out which peak, sometimes they are lie dogs in that I point and they seem to have absolutely no idea at what I'm pointing to, anyway, when they do finally work out what I mean they go 'yeah' and I say, well, not there.
Apparently, and I read this somewhere, if a horse pulling a cart can see a long road stretched out before it then it slows down, if the road is winding and they can't see that far ahead they go a little bit quicker, well my kids are like that : ) Another thing is that old thing where a carrot is held in front of the horse to keep it going, well I get my kids from peak to peak by telling them that we will stop for fig rolls, just over there, just past that hill, and before you know it we are at the top of Foel Fras at one kilometre high and we can see right across Anglesey to Holyhead and right across the Conway Valley towards England, a spectacular view : )
That sounds fantastic. I like looking at the mountains (I live on Anglesey). I used to drive my dad nuts as I could walk up them and for some reason devloped an irrational fear of coming down them! That was the end of the hill walking (I was about 8).
The weather has been pretty good until today. The mountains have been quite spectacular.
Hi again helpme
You do sound very isolated and I imagine you feel especially alone since your partner left.
What are your options here? Could you move? Either closer to town or somewhere new?
In the short term, I hope that you meet people to chat to on this site. Maybe this is a time when you and your son can find things to do that you both enjoy together, being a single parent really strengthens the parent/child relationship.
My daughter and I used to enjoy playing board games that I found at Charity shops, although as she got older and started beating me, my competitive side and confidence took a battering!! So we now tend to watch films that we have recorded, we also play computer games together quite a lot. It sounds as if you are in the countryside, do you get out for long walks? Does your son play outside much?
What do other people do when they feel trapped at home alone??