Anyone else struggling to get little kids out of the house?

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8mo & 3yo. Between baby’s naps & the time it takes to feed and clean her up. Actually managing to get myself ready and convincing very determined toddler to get ready I am failing most days to get out of the house for a walk.
3yo HATES walks now as well, moans she’s tired the whole way round. Any advice? Feel awful for not getting daily or nearly daily fresh air & exercise!!

Finding it hard to get a school child and a toddler out of the house. Lots of homeschooling plus housework. I have decided just to wait till it gets a bit sunnier and stops raining, then there is a natural urge to get out and see the springtime. Hopefully it will just be easier in a month.

When mine were on eight months and 3 it was hard enough to get ready to be out the house normal times! And that was with soft play, groups, etc open! So I really really feel you ladies. This is just so hard.

I now have a 10 and 6 year old and if I have to do another walk I will literally break down in a fit of tears. I say that but what am I to do.... so out for a walk we go!

Please end soon.

And i’m sorry I haven’t advice OP but J completely understand and sympathise and if you manage to just get out once or use one of the ideas above then you are an absolute superwoman and doing great, or at least surviving and that is literally all we ca do right now.

I think a lot of the problem for the toddlers is just general faffage of putting on lots of clothing at this time of year, it’s a sort of sensory overload. It’s so much easier in the summer (provided there is no sun cream battle!) We always get dressed before going down for breakfast in the morning as otherwise it’s just another hurdle to cross. For outdoor clothing I either do it veeeeerrrrry slowly a piece at a time whilst playing, or very quickly as a sort of race game. Having a mobile but not walking baby is so hard at this time of year - there’s a limited amount that can be done outside without them getting fed up. I don’t force my 2yo to walk if he doesn’t feel like it - strapped into buggy and baby in sling and I can walk quickly for a bit, he usually does want to get out for a bit at some point. But the whole thing is exhausting right now, all outdoor entertainment has been thoroughly explored (we were outdoors-y before this but it was nice to have a change with museums and libraries etc) and my enthusiasm is completely faked

no advice but definitely. Mine are 5 and 7. Back in the spring we did manage every day as the weather was terrific. Now I am only managing when the rain stops (twice or three times a week) and it's HARD WORK. They're fine once out though.

2 year old here. She responds to any suggestions of going for a walk, going exploring or going to the park with "No. Play inside".

Getting her out involves a significant tantrum, and she is either screaming in her buggy or else sitting down on the pavement refusing to move and demanding to be carried within 50m of leaving home.

We've pretty much given up trying except at weekends when there's at least 2 of us to share dealing with her.

My oldest is a nightmare and will not go out for a walk yet Dd will walk happily now so she wants to go and he doesn’t.

Saying that at 3 Dd alway hated walking. It’s an awkward age. Have you tried her on a scooter or a balance bike? Or perhaps some kind of hunt. Like give her a visual list of things to find whilst others (bugs, leaves, trees etc)

Also I get your pain with struggling to leave the house. Mine are a little older but by the time we attempt home schooling, eat and do housework there’s not much time left. Roll on spring and summer. Lighter mornings and lighter evenings!

I have three, and have found the trick is to get absolutely everything ready the night before - buggy completely packed, warm clothes laid out ready (including mine!!), handbag hung on the buggy with fruit snacks / favourite toys / bubble wands inside etc.

It's annoying to spend 10 minutes doing it when you want to sit down at night, but I guarantee you it will save you 45 mins in the morning.

I’ve got a 3 year old and two older ones in live lessons all day. We are in Wales so no driving to exercise...the 3 yo’s range is making walks a little fucking tedious by this point to say the least. If I can’t face another walk I just make sure we are out in the garden for 30 mins am and pm. That’ll do us for now.

I’m feeling really lucky that a new building site has recently opened up locally, meaning lots of diggers, dumper trucks, rollers etc. The little ones are actually nagging me to go for a walk at the moment so they can see them. I was very against the project they are building, but the building site is actually a blessing at the moment as it giving us something to look at on the very monotonous walk.

The weather has been so awful the past couple of weeks too high makes it even harder to get motivated to go out. You are doing your best and that is enough.

Same here - with a six year old. The problem is between the homeschool timetable (full day of Teams lessons) my work and the short days, there just doesn't seem a good time to get them outside! Also, with the recent rain anywhere we would walk to (fields, woods, etc) is a muddy quagmire so it's more of a test of endurance than a fun family experience!

Stuff is all laid out ready here, but as I can’t put my toddler in his wet weather gear the night before it doesn’t actually make much difference to me

I only have one, she's 4. She's always hated walks and wants carrying. She will only go out if she thinks she's meeting a friend.