to think it's tough to think up activities with a 9 month old?

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Now the weather has turned I'm really struggling!

We sing nursery rhymes, he plays with his toys in the playpen, he goes in the bouncer while I do chores (in the same room), he sits in the highchair while I'm preparing his meals so I can talk to him, read books, we have splashy play at the sink, bash saucepans...he's not interested in opening cupboards or tupperware etc much apart from to put it in his mouth...

Usually we go on a long walk a day which he loves but it's such bad weather here it would be really unpleasant.

What do you do with your 9mo? He doesn't have a lot of screen time but has 10-15 mins of little baby bum nursery rhymes or the baby learning sensory on youtube most days, and I realised today he'd had more than that and don't want to get into that habit! I already feel bad about giving him any screen time, but he doesn't watch it constantly and is engaged while watching - talking at it and 'singing' with his nursery rhymes (shouting) and bouncing.

He's also getting grumpy because he still hasn't worked out how to crawl so is very frustrated, so is harder to entertain!

Any ideas?

Ooh for dry days, have you tried putting DC on the baby swings/slide (hold them obviously ) at the playground yet? DS2 loves the swings but just looks confused on the slide (and hates the sand).

I have a nine month old too and am relieved to have gone back to work this month! It’s not easy and it sounds like you’re doing well.

No-one I know with children wants to meet up indoors anymore and there are no baby groups running for moving babies. I have a four year old too so they spend a lot of time arguing over each other toys...

Also she loves bath time, climbing stairs, pushing her walker about, ball pit, rolling about in packaging. Some good ideas on this thread.

9m is a hard age. Its easier when they are more mobile as they will cruise about exploring.

Tbh tho it's a pfb thing. I worried loads about doing activities with DS, when DD came along, she mainly gets carted around with me doing whatever I'm doing eg:

1. supermarket
2. laundry (I load machine, she pulls it all out again, repeat ad infinitum)
3. cooking (she sits on the floor with pans and spoons and stuff)
4. going to meet friends
5. going out for walks/to the park/to the duckpond in any weather
6. going to the library just for a change of scene

It's hard tho.i always took DS to the swimming pool at least once a week to wear him out, but the pools round my way are not doing any sort of swimming that children can be involved in except expensive classes which don't suit us.

No-one I know with children wants to meet up indoors anymore

Gosh, really? We are living for playdates. Perhaps because we organise them with other children from preschool so the children do not need to distance.

He's a little bit behind with crawling/pulling up/climbing so I think that's making it difficult as there are things like the stairs/pulling things out of cupboards etc that friends babies do which he doesn't yet so I suppose that wil come when he can do those things

Thanks for all those suggestions just about to try him with a treasure box I made up this morning