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15 month old's activities
i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the
day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? -- elizabeth (in australia) DS - born 20-aug-02 |
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elizabeth emerald wrote:
i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? I don't know if I remember back that far all that well, but I seem to recall mostly just going about my life and incorporating the toddler into whatever I was doing. I'd run errands, visit people, fix breakfast/lunch/ dinner/snacks, pick up/drop off other kids, do housework (with "help" of course ;-), go for a walk, etc. In and amongst all that, I'd stake out times to focus on specifically focusing on the child and playing with him. Those times we'd spend going to the playground, having a playdate, playing a game, making music, doing a project, reading a book, etc. Also, even at that age I didn't really focus on entertaining them all the time. I'd go about my business and encourage them to go play. Maybe they would, and maybe they wouldn't, but they'd often surprise me with the things they'd come up with to do on their own. Sorry I can't remember more details! I just remember we seemed to be busy doing *stuff*. Playing isn't my long suit, but then again, I figured it was good for them to play rather than me anyway. I just made a commitment to spend chunks of time throughout the day where I really focused just on them and what they wanted to do. The rest of the time, we took care of business. It seemed to work out in the end. Best wishes, Ericka |
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"elizabeth emerald" wrote in message ... i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? Well, that was April, so I should be able to map things out, but I can't. I've got the last four months down perfectly, but you didn't ask about months 20-23, so..... My daughter was/is also very active. It was April, so that means that we went out 3-4 times a day. We took one "trip" someplace (kid's museum, park/playground, zoo, etc.), usually between naps one and two. Also in there, we got a walk in, either in the backpack or around the block with her walking and me helping. She liked to walk on uneven or odd surfaces, up/down hills, etc., and I helped her with her balance, never saying no, which has helped her to this day. Anyway, we also went on a later walk and perhaps a visit to some of the neighborhood kids. I don't remember what she was playing with inside at the time. P. Tierney |
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:10:37 +1100, "elizabeth emerald"
wrote: i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? My granddaughter is 16 months old now and we often have her at our house from 9 am or 10 am to around 5 pm. She basically plays with supervision in our living room. We rotate the toys as she gets bored with them. Grandpa plays peekaboo, builds block towers for her to knock over, may read some books to her if she is interested (mostly she is too busy crawling and pulling up on furniture and cruising around the room for this though she loved it when she was a bit younger) She eats *lunch* at around 12:30 or 1 PM, plays on the floor for about an hour and then gets sleepy. She is rocked to sleep on grandpa or grandma's shoulder with Lullabies on a CD (It's a CD she has liked since she was very little and she now associates it with sleeping at our house, though she does differently with her mom). She generally sleeps from about 2 to 4 PM, then wakes up and gets changed, plays a bit and eats *dinner* She amuses herself very well at this point. She examines everything in detail and you can see the wheels turning in her head as she tries to figure out what is happening. She crawls over obstacles, loves to crawl up stairs, to walk holding on to our fingers. She also loves to take magnets off the refrigerator and to play with the baby in the mirror (she stands and lifts a foot then tries to figure out why the mirro baby lifted its foot too). She sings and talks though we don't understand the words mostly. She chatters to the stuffed animals and she makes signs for some words. (She does *all done* very well when she doesn't want anymore food, for example). I can't say she has a typical day though as most of the time we take her out at least some of the day. We take her to baby story time at the library and to the pet store (she loves dogs) and to the park when the weather is good. After she leaves, we clean up the toys. g I can't say what the day is like when she is with her mom though. Only when we are babysitting for her. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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elizabeth emerald wrote: *i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the *day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical *day when you are at home for most of the day? OK, well, when my firstborn was that age, I think it went something like: 5 am - wake up 5-6 am - lounge in bed hopelessly trying to get him to go back to sleep 6-7 am - getting dressed, straightening bedrooms 7-8 am - breakfast 8-9 read books 9-11 maybe a snack and a nap 11-2 go out to bookstore, play with train table and other kids, have lunch 2-3 fall asleep in car on way home, short nap 3-4 snack, play with tupperware while mommy does some dinner prep 4-5 read books and play while waiting for daddy to get home That was a kind of typical type of day, IIRC. Lots of times we'd substitute "visit with relatives" at home or away for "go to bookstore/fall asleep in car" . We also did Gymboree for an hour once a week, and sometimes storytime in the library once a week, and also my son went to a music class once a week - I remember his music class was 9:30-10:30 am on Tuesdays... -- hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net "uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est." not-so-newly minted veterinarian-at-large |
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At that age, I pretty much just incorporated them into my day. We would run
errands in the morning, go to playgroup on one morning, and on the days I didn't have anywhere to go, we just hung around the house. My girls were pretty good about playing by themselves. In the mornings, I would sit down and play something with them or read books to them. Mostly though, they dusted with me or did the laundry with me. I put tupperware containers on the kitchen floor to play with. I am not one to sit down all day and play with the kids, I can't stand to leave the house messy and gross, so I go about what I need to do and incorporate them into it. -- Sue (mom to three girls) I'm Just a Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll World... elizabeth emerald wrote in message ... i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? -- elizabeth (in australia) DS - born 20-aug-02 |
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At that age, I pretty much just incorporated them into my day. We would
run errands in the morning, go to playgroup on one morning, and on the days I didn't have anywhere to go, we just hung around the house. My girls were pretty good about playing by themselves. In the mornings, I would sit down and play something with them or read books to them. Mostly though, they dusted with me or did the laundry with me. I put tupperware containers on the kitchen floor to play with. I am not one to sit down all day and play with the kids, I can't stand to leave the house messy and gross, so I go about what I need to do and incorporate them into it. -- Sue (mom to three girls) I'm Just a Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll World... That's what I did with all of mine. I go on errands Mon Wed Fri mornings with Lewis while Patrick's at a playgroup. I do a playdate Tues morning, coffee group on Thurs morning (Patrick and Lewis go in the daycare). I was doing a Wed morning playgroup for L but it wasn't structured like I thought it would be. Big gossip-fest for the moms, not my thing. Roughly 12 pm Lewis goes for a nap, me and Patrick have lunch. After L's nap he has a snack. If he doesn't feel like napping he has lunch with us. P and L play together till Charlotte gets home from school. They either play indoors or in the backyard. They all drive me nuts till dinner. Then they have dinner, bath (if needed or wanted), then bed at 7 pm for P, and 8 pm for L and C. That's it. Sophie #4 due 7/18/04 |
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elizabeth emerald wrote:
i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? Here's DS schedule: -wake up around 6.30 or 7am and first play around on parents' bed while they desperately try to get a few minutes more sleep -breakfast around 7.30 until 8am -take a shower with either mommy or daddy, and get dressed -around 9am we're ready to go -runs around the living room and plays by himself for about an hour -watch Sesamestreet -10.30 am is snacktime, comes with lots of cuddles -after snack we play rough house for a while, then he goes off to play by himself some more, or we read a book if he's tired -12 noon is lunchbreak, which in total takes about an hour then some relaxation, like reading or building with blocks together -1.30 pm naptime for about 2-2.5 hours -4.30 pm another snack and plenty of energy to run around the living room some more. When he gets bored with his own toys, we draw pictures or play the piano. -6 pm dinner -7 pm after dinner he prefers to play with either one of us rather than be alone. We play the piano, with lego, sorting blocks, balloons, or read books -8pm time for bed ritual, sleeps around 8.30pm. Favourite toys at the moment: an empty peanutbutter jar with lid, anything with wheels, lego duplo, a balloon and his shape sorting car (more to run with than to sort blocks). And he loves books too. -- -- I mommy to DS (16m) guardian of DH (32) TTC #2 War doesn't decide who's right, only who's left |
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:10:37 +1100, "elizabeth emerald"
wrote: i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? I don't have an active or busy toddler even though she is the same age as your son. Our day goes: 7am wake up and nurse 7.15 mum tries to sleep while baby girl hits mum or dad in the head and then turns on Seven Sunrise 7.30 dad finally gives up and has a shower while mum tries to keep baby on the bed 7.40 dad takes baby downstairs for breakfast with her brothers while mum has a shower. 7.50-8.40am baby plays around and gets annoyed at older brothers while they get ready for daycare/preschool 8.40am someone realises we are running late, #1 goes to preschool and #2 tags along for the ride, baby plays on floor or follows mum around while complaining about not being picked up 9-ish am till 11-ish am - doing stuff outside the house (shopping/playground/visit neighbours, etc) 11 or 11.30-ish fall asleep wherever we are 1-2pm wake up and have lunch, probably nurse because she forgot to do it before she fell asleep. rest of afternoon - play with (aka annoy) brothers until dinner time, ask to nurse on and off through boredom/tiredness/being upset for some other reason 5-5.30 pm dinner time. 6pm bath time 6.30pm bed time -- Cheryl Mum to DS#1 (11 Mar 99), DS#2 (4 Oct 00) and DD (30 Jul 02) |
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"elizabeth emerald" wrote in message ...
i'm wondering what activities you do/did with your 15 month old during the day, especially for a very active/busy toddler. can you outline a typical day when you are at home for most of the day? My son is also 15 months old. He goes to day care, so to some extent we've patterned our days off after day care so that his schedule isn't jerked around too much, but roughly: 6AM - wake up (bleah). Have bottle, read books. 7AM - breakfast 7-9AM - play with toys, read books, take stuff out of cabinets. This is one of the periods when I typically ignore him as much as he'll let me so I can log on and eat something. Sometimes I give him something fun and messy to play with like a bowl of flour, since it's still early in the day and he usually doesn't have his outdoor clothes on yet. 9AM - snack, this is when they have snack at day care. 9-11AM - go out. Sometimes this means go out in the yard, often we go to a park, or shopping. He's getting difficult about being in a cart for too long, so if I shop I make very sure to build in time to run around. 11-12 home, lunch. After lunch, NAP blessed NAP! :-) until about 1:30-3. 2-3 read more books, play in the house (maybe draw with markers, throw small light balls, I clean up and he helps), have a second snack. 3-5 usually we go outside again, typically just our yard, sometimes we visit the neighbor's dogs. If DH is home we may all go out together somewhere. ~5 bottle. After this we mostly do indoor play, which may involve chasing each other around the house, blowing bubbles, etc. I also ignore him for some of this period so I can cook dinner. between 8 and bedtime the schedule varies, but dinner, bath, books, and playtime with Daddy usually figure heavily. He's almost alway asleep by 8. So we don't really do that many 'activities', we just kind of bop around. Now, this is easier because he's in day care at least four days a week, so he doesn't get bored. I'd like to start doing some dancing with him, as exercise for both of us, and one of his Christmas presents is going to be an outdoor climber since he's a little mountain goat. We go out a lot, more than I'd like in a way, but I find that frequent changes of scene keep him entertained. Beth |
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