Comments on: The challenges of entertaining a 1 year old https://www.livehoppy.com/the-challenges-of-entertaining-a-1-year-old/ Life & travels (with a bunny) Fri, 28 Sep 2018 02:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Kyla https://www.livehoppy.com/the-challenges-of-entertaining-a-1-year-old/#comment-1754 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 02:58:32 +0000 http://www.livehoppy.com/?p=2727#comment-1754 In reply to Sarah.

That is such a helpful perspective. Reading it, it seems like it should be obvious, but I had honestly never thought about it in terms of trying to tire him out. That is definitely going to change the way I look at some of our activities.

I don’t think he’d yet grasp the timer concept, but I am going to file that away in my brain to dig back up when he’s a little older.

I have learned that a walk with him in the stroller is likely to mean that he will take a snooze while I get worn out and then he will be all ready to play when we get home.

]]> By: Sarah https://www.livehoppy.com/the-challenges-of-entertaining-a-1-year-old/#comment-1753 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:11:31 +0000 http://www.livehoppy.com/?p=2727#comment-1753 Speaking as a long ago, work-at-home mom of a toddler who needed time on her own to get work done — make time for super active play. Running, roughhousing (gentle, of course), clapping games, bouncing games, singing-dancing games (do you remember Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes?), and so on. Those weren’t the instinctive games for me — I was far more likely to want to read a book. But twenty minutes of tag or busy play was far more likely to get me solid chunks of solo time than any amount of time reading books or playing trains. It was a tough stage, definitely. But I tried to remember that my goal was actually to tire him out — a slow walk where he was walking was better than a fast walk with him in a stroller, half an hour on a playground was worth more than an hour playing quietly with toys, etc. And I feel like it sounds horrible of me to say that I was trying to tire him out, but I absolutely was. The other thing I started pretty early was to set a timer for when I was at the computer, short times when he was little, ten minutes, to let him know that he could watch the timer and wait for it to ring and then I would play with him. He was older than one, but probably not a lot older.

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