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Halp!
September 2nd, 2009
Maddie’s a hyper spaz an energetic child. She loves to run and yell and play. However, I’m not an energetic mom. I’m more of a lazy mom, really, and I need to be more active with Maddie. What do you guys do with your toddlers? There’s a playground in our neighborhood that I can take her to. She’s got a Kettrike but hates to ride it (she only wants to push it around). She really needs an outlet for all this energy and I don’t want to be bored or hot and sweaty in the 100 degree heat. (There are no kids her age in our neighborhood for her to play with, but I’d join a playgroup if you think it’d help.)
I’d love your suggestions, please.
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join a pool – swimming exhausts them
do you have an indoor bouncy house place?? – bouncing exhausts them
do yoga dvd for kids – only you do less…. – yoga exhausts them
beach/sandbox/water table – entrances them – my sandbox is simply a big under the bed tub full of sand and some toys – had it for 2 years and he loves it – water table is the same but with water in it
i do the park a lot
she will change her mind about the bike….it’s a phase….
did i mention swimming exhausts them?? and it’s good for you and doesn’t make you feel sweaty and like hell.
I’m just wondering if Lady Godiva wants to come to my house to entertain my kid…
We don’t have regular access to a pool. but swimming does exhaust them. Playing in a plastic backyard pool seems to have much the same effect though. Also, kid classes seem to exhaust my kid (gymnastics and the like.) Probably because there is constant stimulation for the entire hour and regularly changing activities – something that I find hard to create on my own.
Umm, I sit in my chair while my kids play on the structure. I almost never are with them while they play. I’m lazy like that.
We have an indoor trampoline house – seriously wall to wall trampolines. It’s awesome.
I second, or third?, the swimming thing. The boys are in swim lessons twice a week and the youngest one almost always falls asleep when we are on our way home.
We go to park day every Tuesday, with the same group of people, all ages of kids. It’s fabulous. Look for a homeschooling group in your area, the age range of kids will be wider, and you will have moms to talk to. Not that you are going to homeschool (or maybe you are) but they might have some weekly activities that you can attend to keep her active. Take a book.
peace…
Totally swimming. And the bounce houses. Oh, and I totally recommend picking up one or two extra toddlers, if possible. I mean, I know you are WORKING ON IT.
get one of those baby – toddler workout videos. Good for like 30 minutes of activity that actually encoutages additional creative play.
Also those chains like “the little gym” are pretty good.
We have a place where I live that has these indoor enormous inflatable bouncy toys – big enough for kids AND adults to play. It is primarily a party place but a couple of times a week they have something called “free play” which isn’t free but isn’t expensive either. Our chain is called “PUMP IT UP” but I know other chains exist.
Swimming or sprinklers are always a blast Water guns too.
Playgroups are awesome b/c I liked the adult interaction. My kids get worn out, and I get some adult conversation. (Our playgroup doesn’t do anything fancy-pants for the kids like art projects or anything. We basically get together in each others’ homes and let the kids play while we talk.)
In the winter when it’s cold here, we sometimes go to the mall that has a free kids “play area”… even just letting them loose in the mallways is nice…
We also take a Parent/Toddler class through community ed that helps structure our days and gets my 2yr old some other kids to play with.
What about a gymnastics class? Again, we do this through community ed, so the cost is minimal…
Finally, and I know this may not be for everyone, but I really think having an extra 2 year old around makes parenting EASIER. We often borrow a friends’ 2 year old for a few hours and my kid loves it! For short amounts of time, at least, I find 2 2yrolds are easier than 1.
Good luck!!!
I was also going to say swimming, trampolining and borrowing other people’s children for a few hours. I also know that before the trampoline, with my energetic middle child, I used to blast music and let her jump on my bed and put on “shows”, etc. Gets the energy out of ‘em! Good luck!
Sprinklers keep toddlers through elem. school kids entertained. Sandboxes and water tables.
We would go to places that had indoor playground areas, because when the girls were little I was not going to be sweating outside in the FL heat. We also joined a couple of playgroups-which was nice when the women weren’t catty.
I agree with all the stuff here. Playdates are especially rocking, now, that mine’s stopped hitting everyone. She looooves to look at the new toys and stays busy for a long time. Indoor bounce houses/play grounds are good when the weather sucks and parks and playgrounds are good, too.
We’d love to come out there or y’all come out here & just let the kids play til they passout while we do a game night or something. For during the day, what I do with mine sometimes is just get them to race each other around the house or I’ll put music on & judge them in a dance contest;)