Stimulating indoor activities

Today the weather is crappy, we are looking for stimulating indoor activities for a 2 year old.

Please give me your best games etc to do today

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In a bucket or any containers place some plastic fish or any items that float and ask them to go fishing. U can use a colander or anything u have at home.

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Would also like to know for a 1 year old 😂

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Messy play is always fun! Baking cookies. Dance party! If it’s not chucking it down take a ten minute walk if you’re near a park pop on some wellies and see what new things you can see like slugs or snails etc

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My baby’s been in nursery for the last 5 months and after a long process of settling he seems happy. However, I’ve had a number of issues over this time I’ve not felt overly happy about. Now I’m at a point of considering re visiting other nurseries which feels huge knowing my sons established himself somewhere. Something that was really important to my husband and I was that the childcare setting took the babies out every so often. My son has not been out once since he started so spends 8hrs in one room. He really struggles to sleep whilst there and being in the same room for that many hours probably doesn’t help. I never get any updates in the week, never see any photos of him and on the blog posts he never appears in any photos. He has a key worker (newly assigned) but I’m not sure on the purpose of her as she’s hardly in and has never spoken to me. Then yesterday I collected him and he stunk of 💩. Got home and realised his nappy was dirty and clearly hadn’t been changed for a while. I keep telling myself as he’s happy and we’ve established our routine we are better off keeping going as changing setting is a huge decision make but I don’t know if it is worth checking a few other places out as this current one is the only one we visited originally

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Outdoors

Does anybody else go for walks everyday with their baby? I sometimes I find it hard getting out when the weather cold..

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Am I in the wrong?

My husband’s car broke down yesterday, so it’s currently in the shop getting fixed. This morning, I drove him to work. He normally starts at 7 a.m., but because I also have to take our son to school, I asked him if he could start a little later. He had no issue with that at the time.

Now tonight, his boss, who lives near us, offered to give him a ride to work, and his dad also offered because they’re heading in the same direction. Despite having those options, he’s insisting that I take him and that he needs to be at work for 7 a.m.

I asked him why, because that would mean I’d have to wake up around 5 a.m. and wake up both kids, including a baby and a toddler, just to drive him to work before taking our son to school. When I tried to explain why that would be difficult for me, he started going off on me, saying I make his life difficult.

I eventually got fed up and cussed him out too, because I was tired of being spoken to like that when I was simply trying to explain my situation. Now he’s stomping around, huffing and puffing, throwing a fit, and I’ve just walked away because I don’t want to keep arguing.

What frustrates me the most is that I’m already trying to help him out while his car is being repaired. He has two other people offering him rides, but somehow I’m the one making his life difficult because I can’t accommodate the exact time he wants. I have two young children to take care of, and my time and sleep matter too. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect him to consider that instead of making me feel guilty for not doing everything his way.

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Stimulating indoor activities

Today the weather is crappy, we are looking for stimulating indoor activities for a 2 year old.

Please give me your best games etc to do today

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Am I being too sensitive?

My boyfriend & I have a 1 month old newborn baby girl. He works full-time day hours (right now 8hr shifts but starting 12s soon). I work part-time afternoon shifts, only 4hrs each for 3 days a week. When baby wakes up for night-time feeds I'm the one who sacrifices sleep to care for her so he can sleep for work. That means all night I'm up with her and all day I'm tending to her as well until he gets home. Even when he is "helping" I still end up doing most of the load. He gets VERY easily frustrated when she fusses & cries. (Which I get it, I'm frustrated too) but he gets so mean when he gets in that mood. Complaining about never getting a break & even complaining about the dog (who is very very attached to me).
Tonight I expressed how it was super unfair of him to constantly get angry and complain about not getting a break when he watches her for at most 4hrs while im gone and IM the one who does the heavy lifting and gets maybe 2hrs a DAY of sleep.
Now he's making me out to be the bad guy because I expressed how him getting angry made me feel. Yelling at me that he will quit his job then and stay at home full time and I can figure out a way to pay for everything. That he moved states to be here with us and I should be grateful for him sacrificing everything he had back home for us.
Am I in the wrong? Am I being too sensitive?
We don't have a lot of help around here. My mom would love to help, but lives an hour away and works full time so she is very limited on what she can do for us.
I dont have any mom friends (or really any friends in general) who I can talk to or just hangout with to get out of the house.

I feel as though I'm tipping over my breaking point. I want to scream, I want to cry. I just need help, and the one person who should be equally as responsible for baby girl, is letting me down and making me feel so insignificant in this time...

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Venting

Hey mommas!
I really need advice.. I have been with my spouse/father of my kids for almost 8 years. I don’t know if I’m crazy but I came to realize I’m not inlove with him anymore.. he has recently been drinking a lot, he’s an alcoholic and he knows he needs help but doesn’t want to go to therapy nor go to a meeting at he doesn’t want to do it for his own kids not for himself. I’m so tired of matching sure my kids are happy and keeping the house clean. I basically deal with our kids more than he does, it so rare when he changes one of our youngest diapers. He says that he’s never done anything wrong. And mommas let me tell you I’m currently unemployed and he’s the one working but somehow still complaining about everything! “ oh I hate my life, I stress out to much oh this and that “ but I’ve noticed that when I have a job he doesn’t tell me “ do you got money for this or is this coming out of you pocket “ and yet when I’m unemployed he starts to say it. It’s hard to even get a job now that we found out our 2 year old is autistic and needs his therapies.. I’m the one making sure that keeps happening for him.. I’m just so alone and I want to go back to CA ..

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