Chapter Two: How to Occupy Your Child
After you have secured your location and child, there is the matter of how to keep the child occupied while you are away. At first, you may find yourself trapped with the child for long hours, forced to do trivial things like feeding and potty training the child. But once the child has grown older and is able to mostly care for themselves, the matter arises on what to do with the child while you are attending to your own business. The child will become restless if cooped up for long hours with nothing to do, and restless children are dangerous, as they will try to escape more often.
In order to avoid the possibly of the child escaping in their boredom, you must be able to distract the child with various indoor activities. Most of these activities, especially when they're younger, you will have to do with them, but as they grow they will be able to branch out and try some activities on their own. Here is a list of possible indoor activities for younger children;
Reading (only the most obscure books that involve the outdoors and adventure as little as possible, we recommend books about math or complicated theology)
Crafts (safe ones at first, we wouldn't want the child to think we didn't care. Yet)
Stories (mostly frightening ones about the outside world; it's important to ingrain this lie early on, lest they change their minds later)
Chores (this will keep the child occupied for hours; and out of your hair)
These are only a few of the many, many possible distractions for your child. These activities may also carry on into the adolescent years, but the child may become restless if all their routine becomes too monotonous. Try to shake it up, but not too much. Maybe don't visit one day, or scold them for not doing something "properly" and make them do it over. Little things like these may just be enough to keep the child on their best behavior around you, and to not talk to you whenever they have a problem, in fear of another blow up.
You have to try and develop a strong bond with the child. This does not necessarily mean that you have to love or care for the child. No, it simply means that you have to make the child love and care about you. This makes it harder for them to disobey you and defy you once they hit puberty.