To ask what has your toddler been doing today ?

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Today’s been a shit day for me today and so I’m consumed with mum guilt. I’ve recently been furloughed so been trying to keep busy doing a couple of activity’s a day , lunch dinner snacks and at least one walk and some garden time ..

Today has been a complete write off. DS 2 hAs Been up since 5.15am, therefor a lot of tv time has been had for him.. I’ve taken him for a walk, we’ve played a bit , but for the most of it I’ve let him get on with it today with his toys. I’m knackered and feeling the guilt.

What’s your toddler been up to today ?

Yes very up and down here too. We were all much happier in this house the last couple of weeks when it was sunny. We then spent all our time playing in the garden with paddling pool, water table etc. Now I’m just trying to get through each day as best I can and hoping it’s sunny again soon!

Sending me potty. DH is furloughed and I've been WFH. DH is harder work though tbh.
As of Monday DH is back to work so DS will be having much more screen time while I work. Unfortunately there's not much else I can do as I need to work!

My nearly 2 year old has:

1. Played with various toys and made a hell of a mess.
2. Played various games and bits with her sisters.
3. Been palmed off with tv while I supervise home learning for 3 other kids.
4. Now having a loooong bath to wind down before bed at 6pm.

Trying to supervise school work for the others takes up a lot of time. I just don't have the time to devise particularly interesting days for her. When I do sit down she pounces on me to breastfeed and that is the her preferred activity tbh. She likes to potter outside but it's been not too pleasant today so we haven't been out much.

But do you know what? There is zero point feeling guilty about it. If you're doing your best, that is simply all you can do.

Five minute mum page on Facebook is my current go to! We made potions today - cutting up bits of plants in the garden, mixing in tubs. Balloon powered Lego cars look good for tomorrow!

What’s your toddler been up to today ?

Complaining, vociferously, in abundance, with gusto.

He's 3. So technically not toddler I suppose.

He's currently the happiest he's been all day, sat eating chips from the recently reopened chippy.

We've done painting, duplo, making crispy cakes with smarties, outside messing, watched Blippi. But no, chips are the source of joy hes not wrong to be fair

DD is 3 next week. Today we have:

Had breakfast in the garden (kills time as takes longer than in the house!)
Had a zoom chat with a preschool friend
Faffed about letting our chickens out and giving them treats
Read 10000 books
Played with her sylvanian families/kitchen for a bit
Transferred our catepillar chrysilis (sp?) to the butterfly net - its one of those kits and has kept DD enthralled!
Drove to the woods and did a bike ride / looked at general stuff there, had lunch on a log
'Helped' me hoover and do washing
Now watching Frozen & will have dinner in a bit

I'm lucky in that I only work part time anyway, and am currently working from home (although not much I can do) as pregnant frontline NHS. A few odd bits here and there for me to do, but nothing massive so no pressure & trying to juggle it with DD. DH is working full time from home.

We've made a cake, fished for sticklebacks, painted, played duplo and learned the letter 'H'.

The teenagers meanwhile haven't left their bedrooms in days, are probably growing fungi and will go in to shock when they next see the sun.

It's swing and roundabouts.

Watching tv. They woke me up at 3, I wasn’t prepared to do anything other than tv today.

DS is 19 months. Woke up at 6.30, managed to persuade him to lie on the bed for a cuddle for 15 mins.
Breakfast.
Building towers with his blocks.
Shouting at the shape sorted because he was putting the block in the wrong way.
Tantrum because the cat ran away from him after he'd harrassed it for a good 10-15 mins.
Watched Hey Duggee
Had a tantrum because I wouldnt put more Hey Duggee on.
Tantrum because he'd ate all of his snack.
Made me read a book 6 times in a row despite me suggesting several other books.
Harrassed the other cat for a bit.
Lunch
Nap (blessed hour to myself)
Threw a ball around for a bit.
Read a different book 5 times- see above.
Went for a walk
More Hey Duggee
Tea
Now bath before we have cuddles then bed. Then the gin will come out.
Today has been a good day because Im on annual leave . Next week its back to working from home so there will be more hey duggee and snacks to keep him quiet while I try to make phonecalls. This is such a weird time dont feel guilty we all basically need to do what we need to to survive atm!

4 year old so also not a toddler but...
Half an hour of maths on bbc bitesize in the morning, and half an hour of phonics in the afternoon.
Played earthquake lots (build blocks, knock blocks over)
Played freight train - put blocks on big toy train, move train around flat
Watched the ipad and ate 'secret' chocolate digestives (ie, we didnt share with DH)

No walk/exercise as I hurt my foot Tuesday, will attempt a short walk tomorrow.

Sliding on a mattress down the stairs, playing boats in paddling pool, painting outside wall with daddy so covered in paint then proceeded to wash her hands in sink and throw water all over the floor, now watching horrid Henry but at least she hasn't peed on my bed today

2 yr old DD has

Tantrummed over brushing her teeth
Wet herself
Had a video chat with her friend
Walked round the block
Had a nap
Made me play shops with her
Done a puzzle
Read a book
Wet herself again
Played a board game
Laid on the floor whinging a lot

@UnspeakableBode I had to laugh when I read your timetable. It was spot on & sounds exactly like my day with my nearly two year old except without the cats!

A mixture of playing in his bedroom, playing outside, watching tv & playing on the iPad/Switch.

I'm going to be real and tell you the majority of our days inside are like this, even before lockdown.

Not eating. Not napping. Pissed on my favourite chair. Wrecking my favourite watercolours. Refusing to get in the bath.

She's now asking for sellotape so she can tape her two umbrellas together.

17 month old got up at 6.15, breakfast/play with toys/tv time (anything in the living room to keep him waking the rest of the house 😂) went for a walk with dad at 9.30 and fell asleep in his pushchair for half an hour (he usually has 1.5 hours at lunchtime), awake for lunch at 11.30 then we walked up and down our road for a while, drive out the the pharmacy, screamed his head off in the car and fell asleep again, got home and he woke as we tried to pop him in bed. Since then it's been playing in the pop up tent, bit more tv, playing with cars etc, pasta for tea, bath and now ITNG before bed 😊 been an ok day, pretty hard to keep him entertained at times though!

2.5 year old woke up and half past midnight and refused to go back to sleep until 4 .30 am. So in total only had 6 hours of sleep.
Ate breakfast, watched IPad. Had a tantrum Played in the garden with the sand pit for a couple of hours and sometimes the pet lambs. I’ve done some work. Had a tantrum. Had a snack. Garden again. Lunch then garden again. A bit more work for me Inside we played cars and bricks. Had dinner. Run round the house wrecking things. Had another tantrum. Sung a few different versions of the wheels on the bus. I’ve had a bath, he’s watched the iPad for an hour and now he’ll have a bath. Downstairs for a snack and hopefully he’ll be asleep by 8 without another tantrum. I’ve had worse days but last night was hard going. It’s definitely getting a bit repetitive and any activities only seem to last 5-15 mins

Waking at 5.30
Screeching at high pitch because he knows I hate it, and then laughing
Refusing all food, despite being a massive eater before lockdown
Asking for food then throwing it on the floor and saying "NO" when I ask him to pick it up
Refusing to nap
Screeching again when i put him in the stroller for a walk (he walks in the park
Running up to me while I'm cleaning, jumping on my back and biting
Yelling "NO GOOD" at the tv unless he gets wheels on the bus on repeat
Digging up my freshly planted flowers

an hour of tv in bed to give me a chance to come round. fighting with sister, puzzles and being ignored while I home schooled my 6yo, 30 mins more iPad while i read and played with 6yo (acting up needs 1 to 1 time), lunch, movie, playing with dd1, help wth dinner, gardening, more playing/trashing house.

Way way more screen time these days but I WFH with DH while trying to home school and look after 2.5yo and by Friday I'm done in.

My 18 month old...
Had breakfast. Wrecked the living room by pulling every single toy and every single book out and throwing them on the floor. Spent some time putting all his little toys and puzzle pieces into a box and then emptying it all over the floor again. Did some puzzles. Threw a tennis ball around the room and then at the cat. Watched Peppa Pig. Ate lunch. Had a nap. Went for a walk - disaster! Fell in a puddle and got caught in the rain, lots of tears. Refused to eat dinner. Threw a tennis ball around the room and at the cat. Watched Peppa Pig. Emptied the clean washing basket on the floor, rolled on it and jumped on it and is currently transferring it all back into the washing machine. Hopefully he'll be ready to go to bed soon!

Dd almost 3. Usually an angel but lockdown is getting to her so we’ve had a three day stretch of a battle of wills, tantrums, bad behaviour. So today I decided to “love bomb” and go full on Mary Poppins, gave her all the attention all day and it totally worked, we had a great day and I’m nowhere near as tired or cross come bedtime! Have only had to tell her off / warm her about behaviour twice so not bad at all.

Today was like this:

Ate breakfast
played hairdressers
Made each other play breakfast
Played with dolls house
She Watched a bit of CBeebies while I got showered and dressed
Went for a walk to see the sheep and squelched through the mud
Did a bit of gardening
Played “traffic lights” in the garden
Chalked the patio to within an inch of its life
Made lunch together
Watched the first half hour of Frozen and both fell asleep for an hour
More playing in the garden
She did gardening with DH while I cleaned the kitchen and washed up
Played shops
Played doctors
Played with cars
Coloured
Did cutting and sticking
Got out my yoga mat and did “gymnastics”
Fed her toy unicorn with the irritating voice
Read stories
More cutting and sticking
More doctors
Dinner, bath, stories, bed

I even treated her to doing all the role play games “right” (her way) and boring repetition- eg playing cars consists of her red car crashing into mine repeatedly then both going to the garage to be fixed. Over and over again.

That’s basically her ideal day but it is not achievable every day!!!! Don’t worry about it OP, we all have good and bad days. Tomorrow I’ll have to get on with a few more jobs so will have to scale back the love bombing slightly. I usually just try and do one structured activity per day, our walk, one piece of housework and then the rest “free play”.

Ummm not really sure had a coronavirus test this morning, then since then he played “snails” with his big sister, played with age inappropriate toys like a marble run. His nursery sent me a home learning pack this afternoon to make me feel extra guilty.

Ahhh at least DD isn't the only quick artist round here! These days it's mix up all the colours to some lovely brown sludge, over the paper, chuck on a fuckton of glitter. Fin.

Or, abandon paper, paint self.

I'm panicking a bit mind since we are running out and Hobbycraft online is constantly sold out 😬

Driving me insane mostly 😂

Duplo towers
Playing in the car whilst I sit in it with her
Drawing on her easel board thingy
Eating me out of house and home
Trying to get to DHs laptop to destroy it (I'm off Fridays or usually it's mine she's after)
Howling for reason X we can't fathom
Turning washing machine off mid-cycle
Bringing me shoes
Screaming about having socks on / off
Pouring milk on the carpet
Trying to launch herself onto my stomach (I'm 6m pregnant)
Watching cbeebies
Jigsaws
Going out on our walk not holding my hand
Trying to eat neighbours flowers (the purple ones)
Wanting me to read the same book eleventy million times
Making lion noises whilst upside down in her toy box
and much more I can't remember

You are not alone, I feel you. If child and you are still alive at the end of the day = winning.