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Routine with toddler

36 replies

Whitegrapeandblackberry · 27/04/2020 12:45

Not an aibu but it won't allow me to change it, what's your daily routine with your toddler? Ie meal times get up time and bed time? Also how old is he/she Wanting to get mine into more of a routine but not sure where to start!!

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BiblioX · 28/04/2020 06:00

I have a 13 month old and a two year old (3 in a month)...
7am breakfast (youngest up at 5am hey ho)
9-10am Youngest Nap
10am Snack
12pm Lunch
2pm Milk for both
2-3pm Youngest Naps (older too occasionally)
5pm Dinner
6-7pm Bath, milk, teeth, books, bed.

Tomasinaa · 28/04/2020 06:05

6 wakes up
8 breakfast
11 lunch
12.30-3.30 nap (rocked to sleep and sleeps on me or her dad, guarantees a solid nap, terrible for working from home however!)
3.30 snack
5.30 tea
6.00 bath
7.30 bed

These days morning activity is a walk, afternoon is garden.

Trying to keep to same timings and routine as when she's at nursery and it's working well so far.

22 months old

Phifedean123 · 28/04/2020 07:24

Rough routine for a 2.5yo

6.30am wake up and milk
Play in living room
8am breakfast
Quiet crafty play
10am snack and outside play
12pm lunch
1pm-3pm nap (sometimes)
Wake up, snacks and go for an hours walk
5.30pm dinner
6.30pm bath and bed routine
7.30pm put down for bed (falls asleep about 8)

Ineedcoffee2345 · 28/04/2020 07:39

Dd just turned 3
8am wake up straight for breakfast
10am snack
1pm lunch
4.30pm dinner
5.45pm bath
6.45pm snack
7.30pm bed
She dropped her nap last year

firstimemamma · 28/04/2020 07:45

Pre-lockdown routine or current routine op? In my house the 2 really vary!

tealandteal · 28/04/2020 07:58

DS is 2 (3 in 3 months)
6/6:30 wake
7:00 breakfast
Quiet play, doing quick jobs, putting washing on etc
9:00 walk with the dogs
10:30 snack
Play, some kind of craft usually
12:00 lunch
12:30 nap
14:15/14:30 wake
Snack
Garden play/"gymnastics" practice/playing with cars
18:00 dinner
18:45 bedtime
19:15/30 asleep

Cactuslove · 28/04/2020 08:12

My DS is 20 months.

6.30am- wake up (stays playing in room or gets in our bed and watches kids tv for an hr)
7.30am- downstairs, 2 x beakers of milk, breakfast including for example a crumpet and price of fruit
8.30-12- playing no structure really just whatever we all fancy doing
12- lunch normally a hot meal of whatever we had the night before
1ish- nap of perhaps an hr
2ish-4ish- playing no structure
4- dinner could be a sandwich and snack
5.30- bath if he is going to have one
6- tv with milk and muslin and dummy
6.30-7ish- bed

He has snacks throughout day. We often go out for a walk each day or a drive round the block. We have doors open to garden all day in good weather and he comes and goes.

AlpacaGoodnight · 28/04/2020 09:04

Lockdown routine as we don't need to be up for work/school run (and 1 and a half);
Up at 8:45-9am
Breakfast then playdoh or drawing
10 ish play outside (when weather turns this will be indoors)
11 ish small snack and continue play
12pm lunch then walk
After walk more play and every other day a bath
4pm tea then more play
5pm cup of milk and wind down tv time (usually Ben and Holly) and pjs etc
6pm bedtime story/bed and she is usually asleep by 6.20-30
In reality I'd like her to stay up later but she will cry bitterly to go to bed if she is not up there by 6pm!

user1471523870 · 28/04/2020 09:27

Mine is 18 months old and the routine is not strict to the hour, some days he sleeps a little more or he fights sleeps in the evening a bit more etc
But it roughly goes like this:
7am wake up
7,30-8 am breakfast
12pm lunch
1pm nap
5-6pm tea
6-7pm bath, teeth, pajamas, sometimes a little tv
7pm we aim for bed but it could be 7,30 to 8pm depending on how tired he is

Pleasegodgotosleep · 28/04/2020 16:10

Odd routine at the moment with WFH etc but my 20 month old does -

8am - up quick breast feed, downstairs for breakfast
9am - washed, teeth brushed, dressed
9.30am - out in garden if weather ok or play in doors (dollies, doctors, blocks etc)
11am - snack
12.30/1pm - lunch
1.30 - 3pm - play (garden if possible)
3-4.45pm - breastfeed then nap
5pm - walk/push along trike ( lockdown exercise for 4 year old)
6.30pm - dinner
7.15pm - bath, jammies, story
8pm - breastfeed then bed

Dishwashersaurous · 28/04/2020 16:37

Normal routine or lockdown routine.
And I don’t know any children who napped much past two- despite what the books say

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