To be worried about staying sane stuck inside all winter with a 2 year old?

[Lardeedar]

Is anyone else struggling at home with a 1-3 year old that isn’t in nursery? My options before were park, playgroup, or friends/family visit at theirs but now The weather is turning I’m just having to keep her inside all day every day and we are both losing our minds!! The playgroups are all shut and now not allowed in anyone’s house.

You know the age where they won’t stick at anything for more than 2 minutes because all they want to do is explore new objects, places, people?! She literally cries when she sees that we’re coming home.

There’s a few outdoor play sessions Thank Goodness but mostly they are shutting everything down. I’m genuinely worried about her development and my mental health being cooped up with her crying continually asking for Hours and hours of tv. Anyone else?

Try and get her in a couple of mornings at a preschool? X

Get a puddle suit and wrap DC and you up warm and go out. It's grim to spend all day indoors. Maybe also see on Facebook if there are any local mum walks -socially distanced and adhering to all the rules and what not.

Get a puddle suit and wrap DC and you up warm and go out. I

That’s been said at least 500 times in this thread

Has someone suggested getting a puddle suit yet

@Nancydowns

Has someone suggested getting a puddle suit yet

That’s a good idea.

How about a puddle suit?

Just go splashing in puddles, job done.

A support thread where we can share what we've been doing with little ones is a good idea @ReallySpicyCurry

Just as long as no one suggests getting a puddle suit 😂

Yes, go splashing in puddles. All day, every day. Until spring. Forget adult company, mental stimulation and a warm cup of tea. All you need is a wet, cold, filthy muddy puddle. Ideally with bird poo and cigarette ends in it.

It's true that you might be dead from exposure or contemplating self-destruction after a few months of this, but that's beside the point. At least your toddler will be happy. After all, they're the one with the insulated puddle suit and the cigarette end to chew on.

I'm actually surprised the human race ever invented TV, radio, tablets, games, theme parks and everything else that's fun when litrially all you need to be happy, fulfilled and entertained is a puddle suit and some wellies.

@Nancydowns. I know... Think of all the money that could be saved in terms of corporate entertainment and work Christmas parties if actually we all just went outside and jumped in puddles. We've clearly been missing a trick here. Who needs nice restaurants, the theatre, pubs or anything like that? We can all be perfectly happy jumping in puddles until a vaccine is found. Maybe puddle-jumping can become the new Friday drinks? So long as properly socially distanced of course.

Maybe the support thread can be called the no puddlesuit thread?

There could also be a thread for the parents who want to go outdoors and wear puddlesuits all the time.

Just wanted to say thank you for this thread particularly The next smug idiot with 16 year olds capable of ordering their own takeaway, who comes and tells parents of toddlers to buck up and buy wellies, I hope you get trapped in a giant puddlesuit.

Brilliant I do have a 16yo and it hasn't been a bed of roses (cancelled exams, worries about mental health and now worried in case it is silently spreading through the sixth form). Perhaps we could arrange a mumsnet swap, you get our risk taking teens and we can go on endless puddlewalks, bake biscuits in the afternoon and watch Peepa Pig for a week or 2 :)

Much needed light relief

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4059672-Trapped-Toddler-Parents-of-Winter-2020-21-Support-Thread-Puddlesuits-at-the-ready

Right! I've made one! Toddling forth we shall go, we of the Lidl waterproofs and weird smelling travel mugs

Hope this works
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4059672-Trapped-Toddler-Parents-of-Winter-2020-21-Support-Thread-Puddlesuits-at-the-ready?watched=1

Oh god is this thread full of people telling you to buck up your ideas get your wellies on and go out & kick leaves around.

There could also be a thread for the parents who want to go outdoors and wear puddlesuits all the time.

That sounds like it could be a fetish.

@MessAllOver 😂😂😂😂

www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020-10-22/world-puddle-jumping-championships-in-your-own-back-garden

@Nancydowns - everything she said, thank you, I’m not crazy. Or maybe we both are, but still. Feeling better.

I actually can’t even say the word ‘puddlesuit’ to anyone... the word is ruined for me. I may have asked for it, as in my miserable state I sliiiightly exaggerated when I said I would stay INSIDE ALL WINTER. Obviously not but more than half of the posters DID get that...!

My daughter is kinda getting into a routine now and knows what to expect (or not expect, more to the point). She knows it’s school run, playground (all by ourselves, everyday), play at home, nap, school run, play at home, repeat... so at least I don’t have to deal with the previous drama of her expecting all the old playgroups and family and friend meet ups.

I have discovered that I’m more than capable of keeping her entertained and well and happy more or less; but only if IM okay. So I’m trying to chill out a bit more, do some hobbies, just slow down a bit and actively try not to go insane, as, for me anyway, I think if I can keep myself afloat somehow then the kids’ll be alright