It's a little freaky, you know, probably your wife might say you're neglecting a little bit.

But again, it's an emergency situation.

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What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here. Another episode of Five Minute Fatherhead. Here's a fun topic

for today and that is finding a wurch, or warch, but Jeff and Jeremy here. Another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Here's a fun topic for today. And that is finding a work, or work, I put watch and work together, a work or watch activity with your kids for emergencies. Now, this one's really important. And I think we can, I don't know about you, Jeremy. When I read that, I don't think we mean, you know, like if someone's like dying and needs to go to the ER emergency, but just like when kind of the house starts to break down, the wife starts to get overwhelmed, it starts to get a little chaotic, you need to have a plan because that happens actually pretty frequently. It shouldn't be happening every week, hopefully, because of rhythms and things like that. But for us, I'd probably say it happens at least once a month, right? probably twice a month where, and maybe it's not even emergency, but it's just like I can start to sense it would be helpful, right? Right. And so having like just, so what you need to, what's really helpful for us is having those things in your back pocket that take no thought and that you don't have to think about it. And you like basically like you just, it's just a autopilot, right? So for us, I think it's like We go to bubble tea right down the street it's like two minutes i mean you've been there that that little market you know down the street by the hotels well you just hey let's go get bubble tea and i get i totally trick the kids why don't trick them they know that's what they get but they get um i always get water with boba so the treat is not the actual bubble tea it's just the little bubbles And so it costs me like 75 cents too. So it's an actual great investment. Because it's like seven. Yeah, it's like seven dollars for a legit boba tea. But they only charge you 75 cents for like cup and ice and the boba. And I'm like and that's really the kids just want the funness of that and then no sugar. That's a whole other side conversation on how like kids are more pleasing you think with little stuff. But that's ours, right?

And so I'll just be like,

hey, guys, hop in the car. We're going. And then they like it because it's a treat. So they don't like, say like, oh, because sometimes like I don't want to leave mom and all that. And then boom, I'm going to say, hell, bear back, all that type of stuff.

So I think having that is really important, but why would you say why, stuff like that?

Yeah.

So, and part of what I'm trying to figure out here, and this is, you know, if, let's say you need to get one of the things this came up in our Facebook group is like a dad was saying I am super busy with work. I'm, I work from home, I'm overwhelmed, my wife's overwhelmed. What do I do? Like we're, we're in emergency mode. And what I started to talk about was, because we had definitely had these

seasons before as a family with five kids. And I would, I had like, like Jeff just described,

I had sort of this, this sort of bunch of places I could go. Yeah. And some of them, and this is,

again, an emergency situation where it just feels overwhelming, was I would, there was places I could go and actually get some work done. It wasn't like, it wasn't a hundred percent focused, but I could actually like, there was a, there was an indoor playground in the mall close to where we were. And it was all completely contained. And so I take like a two-year-old and a four-year-old and I drop them into this little playground and it opened my laptop and I just and I look up every like every two minutes. Okay, everybody's cool. Everybody's cool. It's a little

freaky, you know, probably your wife might say you're neglecting a little bit. But again,

it's an emergency situation. When my husband got a little older, I would do a park. I did

parks all the time. I did Chuck E. Cheese. I did Chucky Cheese. I would take oftentimes,

like, our youngest would be the most work. And so there were all kinds of times where I would just take one of them. And I would like literally, I go to a restaurant or like, like Jeff says, bobo-bee tea someplace like that. And I would just put them in a tight chair. I'd open my laptop. I'd give them food. I talk to them. I'd work. Talk to them. I could keep them busy with foods,

different things for like a good hour or two, get a lot of work food, I talk to them, I'd work, talk to them. I could keep them busy with

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