So what can you do at home? Firstly, self-development. If you didn’t have time to get a higher education before you go on maternity leave, you can safely begin your studies. Extramural studies or distance learning at home will allow you, without losing a few years, to get a diploma and profession.
If you still have a diploma, take up your free time by upgrading your qualifications. Today, there are many courses, trainings, lectures and seminars. So that when you come to work after a three-year absence, you do not start all over again, but with a firm step, step up the career ladder.
If you absolutely do not want to think about work, then perhaps you can take your leisure to the development of new areas of activity. For example, to study foreign languages or, after reading several books, try yourself in the role of a family psychologist.
And if the very thought of working or studying brings a death pang, then, you ask, what to do in your free time?
You can try yourself in creativity. How exactly it will be is up to you. It can be drawing, embroidery, knitting, origami or something very extravagant - outfits made of plastic. You can create real masterpieces from improvised materials such as threads, soap or, for example, cocktail tubes. You can also create in the kitchen. Then your masterpieces will delight not only the eyes, but also the stomachs of your relatives. If you have the opportunity to ask someone for an hour - another to look after the child, then this generally makes it possible to organize a real feast and arrange a romantic dinner for your husband . The choice of activity here is completely up to you and is limited only by your imagination.
More options for what to do at home: try writing your book. All children love to listen to fairy tales and each time they demand new and new entertaining stories. And imagine how delighted your baby will be when he heard from you a fairy tale to himself. Such a story will be very interesting and useful for the child, and you will stop asking yourself the question: “What can I do at home?”
And finally, if you have free time, but there isn’t so much to devote to yourself and your hobby, approach the question of educating your child creatively. Start drawing together. There are also enough options for creativity. You can draw with pencils, felt-tip pens or even fingers. Your drawings also need not be on paper. You can draw on wood, glass, fabric. And everything else. Embellish homemade mugs, an old cupboard, or kitchen napkins with your own patterns. The main thing is that the child is not too carried away and does not start painting on the walls without you.
Start sculpting from plasticine or from salt dough. You can also do cooking together. Your child will fully cope with the task of creatively arranging cucumbers or sausage on a sandwich, creating a face out of them. Sew soft toys together, create a puppet theater, in a word, have fun and usefully. Thus, even in the rainiest autumn days you will not have a question: "What can I do at home?"