Need help with twin one year olds!

[Meg1990]

Hi guys,

Needing a bit of help with my two boys, they're coming on leaps and bounds and I want to start a reward chart but I'm not sure whether they are old enough to understand the concept of it all? Surely learning from this young they will catch on pretty quick? Also not sure what things I can do with them during the day that cost very little/nothing at all...their birthday is just before Christmas so we're a little wiped from all that! I don't want to keep doing the same things over and over again day in and day out!

Any advice is appreciated! :)

Hi Meg1990,
We're moving this thread to 'parenting' because we think you'll receive more of a response there. Thanks!

I would forget reward charts, they really wont understand and will delighted with a noisy round of cheers and applauds at anything they do !
Babies enjoy repetition, thats how they learn, you will get bored though.
I've have ds1 12, ds3 4, dd1 4 & ds4 9mths, so everything is fairly cheap and cheerful here Bubbles/balloons are a bit hit, sorting things out ( find tactile safe stuff around the house and put it into boxes, walks, feed ducks, stories with big pictures, ripping magazines has been a fav with all of them. Music/ banging on drums, in fact anything is a learning curve . The only clubs I went to was a music session and tumble tots.

Hi Meg, what do you propose rewarding on the chart? I'm curious because my 12mo does nothing which I think could be responded to with a chart, even if I did think he could understand it (which I really, really don't). I actually plan never to use a reward chart [hubris emoticon] - why are you so keen?

My DS would happily watch squirrels/ ducks all day or go on the swings until he had to be defrosted from the thing. We go out to museums etc. but that's for me, really - he just seems to be happy being spoken to and generally adored all day so I more or less suit myself and take him along for the ride.

Well done for twins, btw.

My twin DDs are 10 now and I utterly applaud you for being organised enough to think of reward charts! :) I generally used to pat myself on the back for just getting through the day when they were at that age.
I took them out in their buggy as much as possible, sang, talked to them and mostly just ran round after them and even occasionally plonked them infront of Dora so I could get the washing up done.
You'll do what's right for your boys- don't worry :)

I def would not do the reward chart now! They will not 'get' it for at the very least another 6 months (more like a year).

When it will become genuinely useful and relevant, they will be utterly bored by it.

As for cheap things, where do you live? If in London, a plethora of free stuff to do that I can tell you about if relevant to you