Wake window ideas

How is everyone entertaining their 4 month olds when they’re awake? My little girl is recently seeming much more alert and has a soft teething toy she loves to sit in her chair and chew/suck, then I’ll put her on her playmat and she’ll play with the bits that dangle from that and flip from back to front etc.

Obviously also chat and interact with her a lot and we do get out and about most days. Just sometimes worry that she’s bored as she’ll be awake for 2+ hours at a time sometimes now and am wondering if I should be doing more?!

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UK summer holidays 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

I’m making this out of pure curiosity and just for some extra ideas…

I watched a instagram video about how someone had budgeted £500 for this summer holidays and they don’t think it’ll be enough.
This is my first school holidays and I’m term time too so no childcare or holiday club costs and I have one child!

But I can’t fathom spending £500+ for 6 weeks of school break.

I get it if you like to do expensive zoos, days out etc. but so far this week I’ve spent about £22 on activities which was £8 at a local gymnastics center with trampolines, £8 for lunch (kids eat free in dunelm cafe), £3 spent on ice creams yesterday after our park/bug hunting/bike ride picnic and another £3 on ice creams today on the way to the stream for a picnic and to catch fish!

We’ve also been to a free splash pad with friends and have done some arts and crafts at home so far.

How much does everyone else plan to spend or has spent before?

Am i kidding myself that I’m not going to spend much? Should i of budgeted more!😂

How many meals a day

My 10 month old is still only having 2 meals a day shes has breakfast & tea the odd day she will have dinner but shes not really hungry around that time.

She has a bottle between 7:30/8am then she has her breakfast around 9/10 depending on nap then she has another bottle about 1ish then tea at 4/5 and always has a bottle before bed she seems content do i need to up her food intake or just follow her lead?

9 month on solids

Need some advise please!

My baby has just turned 9 months. He’s always loved his food from the start and never really refused anything I’ve given him. I’ve never done the baby led weaning because I was always so scared and didn’t really understand it. So from the start I’ve been feeding him with a spoon. The last month or so I’ve been really trying him with finger foods like fritters/banana pancakes etc but he ends up just playing with them..chewing some and spitting it out, or even gagging so much that hes sick and throws everything up. I feel like he’s progressing really slowly with his food, but at the same time when I give him smoother food and I’m feeding him I can tell he’s getting frustrated because he doesn’t want to be fed with the spoon, he wants to do it himself, Which I do often let him do, but just uses the spoon as a play toy, so I do have to keep taking it off him to refill it. I’m feeling guilty, thinking maybe I should have done baby led weaning, I know he will get it eventually but I don’t want him to fall behind.

Please some advise would be appreciated 💜

Basically a single mum needing help

So my partner/BD over the past 6 months or so has been a complete arsehole, I’ve got 2 kids to him and my 2nd baby is 4 months old but since I was last pregnant, he’s changed into a massive dick, anyway at the moment he’s been a massive arsehole like usual and I think we’re coming to the end of our relationship and luckily I don’t live with him and I have my own place but he’s not coming to mine this week and my family are busy all week or on holiday and I’ve got no friends since I had kids, my point is I can’t tidy up properly and every time I try to my baby cries as he’s very needy which I love him for but it’s tricky at times luckily my toddlers at nursery 4 days a week but even then it’s difficult when it’s just me n baby I haven’t been able to do a full house tidy in ages and I like to put my music on but I’m just finding things so difficult as I have to keep stopping 10 minutes or so and I’ve only got between 9:30am to 3pm Monday to Thursday to do anything other than that I don’t have any time especially on an evening I’m so exhausted once the kids are in bed.

If you’re a single mum with 1 or more kids how do you cope especially up keeping your home?

Full time nanny

Hi all! for those who has a full time nanny or is a nanny, once you find your match on childcare.co.uk do you usually have a contract?

I’m stressedddd!

My child has been in daycare/preschool for 5 years. Preschool has taught him letters, numbers, etc and I have also worked with him at home by practicing letters, numbers, shapes, all the good stuff. We read to him every night as well since birth. My kid doesn’t know how to read, and I have no idea how to teach him how to read. How are all of these parents starting kindergarten with kids that already know how to read???