To feel the weather is actually now making me a terrible parent

Fair enough. Another variation is hopping on a random bus as that is really exciting for DC of that age. Still rainy but fine for half a day to kill time.

Could we have some sort of bingo card for these threads?

I have toddler twins. I have been “wellies on and off you pop”ping for seven months now.

This. Wellies on and off you pop.

Yes we are all capable of putting waterproofs and wellies and leaving the house with our children. The point of the thread is that it’s been so wet and miserable on and off for a prolonged period that this is becoming tedious for all involved.

My son was around this age when lockdown hit and playgrounds/playgroups etc were off. Some things I remember doing are:
Watching lots of Hey Duggee/Andy's Dinosaur Adventures
Den in the living room with a "disco" from a musical toy
Paper taped to wall and crayons to mark it with
Play tunnel, doubled as a peekaboo toy as he used to stand inside it and pop it up and down
Big plastic storage box - he loved sitting in it with whatever was in there (usually toys, books)
Tuff tray for messy stuff/sensory play etc - top tip, go to Toolstation and get a cement mixing tray. They're cheaper and exactly the same. Really good for containing the mess, plonking them on it as a new play space.
Books..got so fed up of reading the same one over and over again.

Just a few ideas to mix up indoor entertainment, but also hard agree that the weather is shite and having full use of the garden, park, walking bloody anywhere would be fricking fantastic.

16 months puddle suit, wellies and out!

Will she still enjoy it when she's 7 and walks become BORINGAH

We don't seem to have normal rain anymore, it always seems to be torrential rain to the extent it is impossible to go out in without being drenched in two minutes. It's depressing, winter is bad enough without the dreary weather continuing almost to the start of summer.

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Obviously I’m not suggesting that this is commonplace but it does show there is such a thing as bad weather and sometimes going out in it isn’t wise. There’s a massive risk from reduced visibility when walking in traffic, everywhere is slippier, falling trees and branches and this awful tragedy. So I really wish people would stop with the ‘just put on a puddlesuit’ nonsense.

Yawn.

We have had months and months of this.
Walking in the rain Every. Single. Day has lost it's shine.

Everywhere is so muddy that walking off road is an endurance test and not fun.

I don't mind the odd drizzly walk, but I do not find walking in pouring rain the least bit enjoyable and neither do most people who have posted on this thread.

A mumsnetter has coined a very apt phrase for people like you.

Just go for a walk in the rain. My little girl is 17 months now but we just put on wellies and her rain suit and go splashing in puddles! She absolutely loves it. Then we come home for a shower and some reading/ playing whatever she fancies.

Do you live in Devon by any chance?! It’s been relentless here for months. I hear what you’re saying . Only so many puddle walks etc you can do. While kids don’t melt in the rain, getting soaked every day loses its shine after a while!

Stay in.

There's nothing wrong with TV, making a fort with couch cushions, scribbling, sensory play with dried rice or macaroni, etc. Long baths can be fun too.

You could get out to the library, but it's often more work than it's worth to get a toddler out in the rain.

Can't blame her. I can't stand the feel of waterproofs on myself either

It becomes tedious when you have done this Every. Single. Day for the last three months.

Thanks for dropping by, Mary Poppins.

Rainsuits and waterproofs and off to the park. Muddy puddles etc etc. home for early bath time (as long in the tub as they want) and hot chocolate and a movie with a picnic tea. Life is what you make it and staying in all day just because its raining is a recipe for disaster.

I went for a walk this evening. It took 45 minutes. I am blessed as it was the only time it stopped raining all day. And I saw some deer.

DS's school trousers came home in a bag. I had to rinse them under the water butt they were so caked in mud.

I am glad I don't have a toddler to entertain.

Or maybe my weather has been different to your friends 😮

'Wait, I'm supposed to bath my kids too?'

Take a bottle of Matey out into the rain and kill two birds with one stone

Sympathies OP, 16 months is a hard age to entertain indoors. When they turn 2 they start to busy themselves for hours with play doh or hot wheels or stickers or whatever but a 16 month old will just play with those things for a minute or two before eating them.

Most people don't take their children to parks in the pissing rain with a north wind blowing, even if they have got a puddlesuit on. That's why parks and playgrounds are all empty.

I waited all day for a break in the rain (not to take a toddler out thank goodness I’m past that stage) to go and post a card.

Genuinely it didn’t come. It’s been pissing it down all day. The card was wet just going from bag to postbox!

Wow are you being serious. What do you expect to happen?

No more patronising than most of the ridiculous posts on here, telling OP that she should be ENJOYING trying to entertain her young child in the rain, bringing him/her up to think that rain is the most marvellous thing, and that one or two days of sunshine should be all anyone should expect, and that it makes up for months of miserable weather.

If you didn't like my post then good, it's made up for all the patronising posts on MN about any other country in the world which isn't the wonderful UK 😂

What a patronising post.