She won’t walk...!

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Go for your one hours exercise a day..I would if my toddler Dd would actually walk and not throw herself on the floor every 50 metres 😩
What are you doing to keep toddlers entertained 12 hours per day?
Thank god for the garden and slide, but currently freezing my arse off in hat and coat sat watching her.
Aibu to miss the days of lying on a sofa with a duvet on in winter, watching films 😬

Could you make the walk more fun, OP? Play chase, find puddles to stamp in, identify trees or plants in parks or gardens, see if she can spot (say) different colours of car, point out letters or numbers, etc.
Let her help choose the walk - shall we go to the park or the woods today, for example.
If she is involved in the decision making and more entertained on the walk itself, she will start to look forward to it. My now adult two DDs had a walk every day as toddlers, either with me or with the nanny if I was at work. Those walks included snowball fights, paddling in puddles, collecting wild flowers, playing catch with a ball in the park, going to visit the horse and donkey at the field beyond the village- both toddlers loved their walks.

What age is she? Any chance of putting her in a buggy? I do that with my 3 year old. I get a walk and headspace and he likes to look around and order me to pick up sticks for him!

Yeah my toddler's legs don't work outside (2 yrs 3 months). Drives me crackers! He's quite happy trundling along in his pushchair so we just stick to that.

I think an hour just walking is a lot of "concentrating" for some younger children. Stick to small walks (to the park, play and back Or collect things on the walk) or a long walk with a pushchair or sling to break it up.

Mine used to be entertained by telling me sounds, sights and smells. But the walks were slow and involved carries for bits etc.

Dd was like this. I picked up a trike 4in 1 off Facebook. Sometimes I push her, sometimes she pushes, and she also walks. It will eventually be peddled but to small yet.

We also look for stuff, today was dinosaurs or dinosaur stuff. A broken branch, shhhhh the dinosaur did that etc.

Last week we spent a while in the woods looking for shrek.

Double sided sticky tape on card, then collect things en route - leaves, grass, feathers, whatever. My DD used to love finding things to stick

I feel for you, my Ds2 did this until he was 3. He just refused to walk anywhere, even just to the shop which is a minute walk from our home, he'd just lie down on the pavement and would refuse to get back up unless I picked him an carried him. I always took the buggy with me everywhere as it was less hassle and stress free both of us. If she's still young enough to fit in a buggy then just take it with you, she's still getting fresh air and she might start wanting to walk more rather than sit in the buggy if she has a choice of either one.

She was brilliant up until a couple of months ago, then changed 🤷🏻‍♀️We’ve always gone in the woods by the house to the beach with her since she was a baby, with our dog. She loved it, we jumped in puddles, climbed trees, looked at bugs with the magnifying glass etc. We walked lots but stopped lots too, but now she barely walks very far at all, she used to run along 🤷🏻‍♀️

We take her on her push bike and buggy to other places but the terrain isn’t suitable and she has to walk to the dog places we go to.

Something has obviously changed, if she used to enjoy walks. Have you asked her what’s wrong? Could she be suffering tiredness, perhaps post viral if she’s had subclinical Covid? What age is she, could it just be the negativity of the “terrible twos”?

@Babdoc She’s 2.6 years, she could be tired as is teething at the moment, last ones hopefully! But this has happened each time we’ve gone in the last couple of months. She’s not out of energy for playing etc, but asked to be picked up and carried fairly early on in the walk when we’ve barely gone far

New wellies and matching brolly? Doll's buggy /scooter?
Bag of sweets to aid the journey?

I wonder if her shoes aren't comfy? My two year old won't walk nearly as far in wellies as he will in proper shoes.

Once walked my toddler ds round a shopping centre for hours. He slept all the way home in the buggy. Goal achieved!
Then a found the domino in his little shoe!!

@whatswithtodaytoday That’s a good point, most of the time she has been in her wellies 🤔 she hasn’t ever complained about them (and she likely would 🤣)

At 2.6 she could just be testing the boundaries and what she can get away with/control. If it's safe to do so (i.e. not next to a main road) maybe trying just ignoring her and continuing to walk a little way away from her and see if she will follow you. If not, just stop (and freeze yourself ) whilst being very interested in anything else you can see but her. If she eventually follows along, then you know she's just playing with who is in charge.

@modge 😂Have done that a few times, I shout ‘Ok I’m going now! and walk off, she shouts back ‘Bye’ quite pleasantly 🤷🏻‍♀️🙈