What to do with a ten month old in the relentless rain … ?

[Magicalwoodlands]

I’m thinking maybe soft play for a couple of hours, but other than this, not sure … any suggestions?

sometimes we couldn't go out on a rainy day so I'd give kids a very long day time bath with all the bubbles, bath toys, bath crayons I had available. they even had glow sticks when it was quite dark outside
they would be allowed to eat an ice cream too while in the bath and some drinks too.

they never wanted to stop! when the water got cold I'd drain some and replace it with hot. our record was well over 2 hours🤣

Is it still raining? It's torentiall where I am but there are a lot of houses dressed up for Halloween, you could do a little tour, in the car if necessary.

Get lunch via a drive through, go shopping, it's much better if you don't have to actually do any shopping and you can just wheel a trolly about and let your baby see things, maybe buy a small toy or a drink in the cafe.

Are there any pet shops near? There is a lovely one not far from me, it shares a car park with a garden centre and if you ask nicely the staff will let you cuddle a bunny.

Op where are you? It's definitely nowhere near freezing here (East England). It may be raining but it's in double figures.
What have you got planned for today? Are there any family members you could see?

Am I going to have to give an itinerary of my movements every time it is raining now until the thread fills up?

I don’t think I ever said it was freezing but it isn’t warm. Especially when one is wet.

@Magicalwoodlands Never mention the weather on MN, your thread just turns into “random localised weather reports from anonymous posters”

We went to an art gallery yesterday which was very fruitful for: going up and down escalators, going in see-through lifts, roaming on the floor (in the bit designed for that, I’m not an art gallery-ruining monster), sitting on the bench people watching, cruising along the bench, cafe.

I was also going to suggest a trip to the local museum or art gallery.

Most, probably all, hang displays well above toddler height. Point out colours, animals, cars (anything).

Many have slippery wooden floors that are great for crawling. Nearly all will have a baby changing table/disabled toilet. If you are lucky you might find Wi-fi and a cafe. The ones round here also have a few colouring tables (scribble together).

Invest in a fabric highchair and a set of baby reins and the world is yours to conquer!
A hip seat becomes useful for slightly bigger toddlers.

@NigelSlatersXmasTaters

Just stay in! He's 10 months old. Why does he need to go anywhere?

This. Book time, a play in the bath, some music etc.

@Magicalwoodlands

Am I going to have to give an itinerary of my movements every time it is raining now until the thread fills up?

I don’t think I ever said it was freezing but it isn’t warm. Especially when one is wet.

Op you are very rude to people trying to help. You said in one of your posts about freezing your tits off if you went outside so I asked where you where so the answers could be appropriate. I also only asked what your plans were as a friendly conversation post and wondered if you had the same dilemma today as yesterday. I won't bother anymore.

Mine hated staying at home. Anything but home for us at thst age. Shopping centre, garden centre, pet shop, church (not religious), lunch out, cake out, soft play, aquarium, museum. Perhaps not trampoline as I'm pretty sure our gym instructor said its bad for baby legs.

Plus cinema, baby screenings were good

Op you are very rude to people trying to help. You said in one of your posts about freezing your tits off if you went outside so I asked where you where so the answers could be appropriate.
I also only asked what your plans were as a friendly conversation post and wondered if you had the same dilemma today as yesterday. I won't bother anymore.

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Soft play and then a toy store? Just to look at stuff and then maybe something small to buy? Is there an IKEA near you? The hours my Godson spent there looking at stuff and then something to eat. The grocery store? A shopping mall to see the decorations?

I get it OP. You and the baby need to be out but not in the awful rain.

@Magicalwoodlands

Do feel free to fuck off to another thread, then.

I won’t object, or argue, or insist you post on mine

You're rude. You immediately shut down any suggestions anyone gave you that YOU asked for with a snotty reply. Maybe try thinking for yourself in future.

To be honest, yes, I am being rude.

Because I started a thread yesterday. Got some suggestions, but a fair amount of absolute insistence on going walking in the rain.

Long answer. Some of you seem to be confused about the age of my DS. He is ten months. He is not three, he can’t walk, he can’t jump over puddles, which is apparently all any small child needs to keep them happy and entertained.

OTOH nor is he five months. He isn’t content to sit back in his pram for hours and especially not with a raincover on.

These points are reasonable. I made them nicely early in the thread but still they keep coming.

So yes, I do get pretty short as I’ve got better things to do than keep making the same points to people who either CBA to read or are so convinced that the only happy way to spend a rainy Saturday is trudging through muddy woods with a baby shoved under a raincover.

Then for some mysterious reason it is upped and I have to justify what I’m doing today as well. Then people get annoyed I’m not super grateful, which I find odd. Would you post on a thread about a non sleeping six month old and be annoyed if the six month old is now two and sleeping fine? OK, slightly different but I asked idly about yesterday. I meant my post as slightly more humorously than it probably came across (bad night) but I really don’t want to have to be replying to this thread every time it rains!

And my family are dead so no I won’t be visiting them.

It has been a really unpleasant thread for all sorts of reasons and I accept my own contributions there too, but I don’t think anyone should be banging the same drum when someone has said you know what, no, that’s not for us.

Just play with him at home.

@Magicalwoodlands

To be honest, yes, I am being rude.

Because I started a thread yesterday. Got some suggestions, but a fair amount of absolute insistence on going walking in the rain.

Long answer. Some of you seem to be confused about the age of my DS. He is ten months. He is not three, he can’t walk, he can’t jump over puddles, which is apparently all any small child needs to keep them happy and entertained.

OTOH nor is he five months. He isn’t content to sit back in his pram for hours and especially not with a raincover on.

These points are reasonable. I made them nicely early in the thread but still they keep coming.

So yes, I do get pretty short as I’ve got better things to do than keep making the same points to people who either CBA to read or are so convinced that the only happy way to spend a rainy Saturday is trudging through muddy woods with a baby shoved under a raincover.

Then for some mysterious reason it is upped and I have to justify what I’m doing today as well. Then people get annoyed I’m not super grateful, which I find odd. Would you post on a thread about a non sleeping six month old and be annoyed if the six month old is now two and sleeping fine? OK, slightly different but I asked idly about yesterday. I meant my post as slightly more humorously than it probably came across (bad night) but I really don’t want to have to be replying to this thread every time it rains!

And my family are dead so no I won’t be visiting them.

It has been a really unpleasant thread for all sorts of reasons and I accept my own contributions there too, but I don’t think anyone should be banging the same drum when someone has said you know what, no, that’s not for us.

Actually OP, I posted a very nice reply with a genuine bit of thoughtfulness for your mental health, and got shut down and mocked, so actually, you have been monumentally rude and have been solely responsible for any unpleasantness on your thread. I remain concerned about your mental health as your language and defensiveness is wildly disproportionate, but maybe that’s just you. I’m more of an ‘always be nice to others’ kind of person, but each to their own.

Perhaps what you intend to be nice, and what others take to be nice (concern for mental health - seriously?) isn’t?

And that isn’t intended rudely. It really isn’t. I’m just not really seeing having my mental health called into question (even ‘nicely’) on a thread about babies and the rain, as particularly ‘nice’.

Shall we move on and get the puddle suits on?

@Magicalwoodlands

Do feel free to fuck off to another thread, then.

I won’t object, or argue, or insist you post on mine

Oh, and I’m going to report this as it’s completely uncalled for and hugely aggressive @MNHQ

You don’t have to tag MNHQ. Just click on ‘report’ in the right hand box. They will delete it I am sure as it is rude of me. However, when you respond politely and people just carry on, I am not really sure what one is expected to do.

If I want to go out and it’s raining, we generally just go somewhere dh and I need to go and Ds comes along. It’s not thrilling excitement, but he seems happy.

We spent yesterday looking at new kitchens so he sat in pram and wandered around show rooms. Popped to garden centre indoor bit and bought some Xmas out door bit he will like next month, lunch, then supermarket shop he quite likes trolley.

We go to a shopping centre or a big Asda to kill
Time!

@itsgettingwierd

Another who says a walk with rain cover. It's actually a great sensory experience hearing the rain and watching it run down the plastic!

Even better if you can double it with going somewhere with a purpose. Library is a good one. Mine has a cafe and we can go there, look at books, have coffee and cake and get home again and have used a whole afternoon!

Unless it’s one of my dc who for some reason find being cosy and dry under a raincover the single most terrifying thing ever second only to going in the car seat 🤦‍♀️🤣

@Magicalwoodlands

To be honest, yes, I am being rude.

Because I started a thread yesterday. Got some suggestions, but a fair amount of absolute insistence on going walking in the rain.

Long answer. Some of you seem to be confused about the age of my DS. He is ten months. He is not three, he can’t walk, he can’t jump over puddles, which is apparently all any small child needs to keep them happy and entertained.

OTOH nor is he five months. He isn’t content to sit back in his pram for hours and especially not with a raincover on.

These points are reasonable. I made them nicely early in the thread but still they keep coming.

So yes, I do get pretty short as I’ve got better things to do than keep making the same points to people who either CBA to read or are so convinced that the only happy way to spend a rainy Saturday is trudging through muddy woods with a baby shoved under a raincover.

Then for some mysterious reason it is upped and I have to justify what I’m doing today as well. Then people get annoyed I’m not super grateful, which I find odd. Would you post on a thread about a non sleeping six month old and be annoyed if the six month old is now two and sleeping fine? OK, slightly different but I asked idly about yesterday. I meant my post as slightly more humorously than it probably came across (bad night) but I really don’t want to have to be replying to this thread every time it rains!

And my family are dead so no I won’t be visiting them.

It has been a really unpleasant thread for all sorts of reasons and I accept my own contributions there too, but I don’t think anyone should be banging the same drum when someone has said you know what, no, that’s not for us.

Totally with you OP and I admire the way you’ve explained yourself (not that you had to) Sometimes others get fixated on an idea (rainy walks in this case) and then you can’t shake that off.

If it helps at all for my dc when they were little I used to do what we called ‘special boxes’ usually a shoe box so dc could get the lid off and they’d have little things in them like a new little toy, crayons and paper, a little box of raisins, some sensory coloured scarves etc etc. Each one was different and would keep them occupied a whole id sit them in the highchair or playpen and swap the box over for another if they got bored

Yeah, it’s rubbish. In the bath with lots of toys would be my advice, or bubbles. Otherwise if you drive I’d bundle him in the car and have a very slow browse round Sainsbury’s, with plenty of rice cakes as you go.