How much time per day do you dedicate to spending time with your child/ren?

[Mandymoo]

I am in a guilt ridden mood as i dont think i'm giving dd enough quality time (bit hard as have 9 wk old baby but guilt is guilt!)

How much time do you guys simply spend playing wiht your little ones per day?

are you talking about your 9 weeks old baby or have you got a toddler too? (im confused!)

sorry, i meant my older child!

phew! i was gonna say! How old is your oldest?

5 and 8 year old. 5 mins entertaining at bus stop. 40 mins on bus playing in my basket/doing wordsearches/hangman/gameboy getting past next levels.
Then another 40 mins on bus later after school. Then they run off like ferrets up to thier room/out to the garden and I dont see then till dinner...then they shoot off again.
If they want to go out on bikes / scooters up the shop or whatever I say yes.
At the weekends we lounge around and play scrabble in between them spending HOURS in thier room. Maybe a bike ride or a trip to the park and sundays more lounging and swimming lessons.
They do a lot of craft behind me as I mumsnet!

my eldest is 3.5 yrs - she has pre-school every morning for 2.5 hours so that only leaves afternoons and weekends

put an hour or so aside for story/cuddle while baby is asleep
weekends could be spent at park etc as a family or hubby could take toddler while you have baby
children this age (3) need a lot of parent love and to feel secure
my boys are 9 & 10 and dont need me they play in their room or out with friends so enjoy it while you can

I am a sahm with 2 DSs aged almost 3 and 18 months and I would say I spend around 2 hours per day playing/reading/singing with them but try and talk to them as much as poss the rest of the time - we also go out for walks, to the park, visit my grannies quite a lot. I would sday to just try to spend time with DD while baby is asleep and get her to help you with the baby so she feels important. I am sure she is fine and you will find a way - baby is only 9 weeks old, things will fall into a routine soom.

god schneebly you are so good, well done, I wish I was as good as you.

Mine are 3 and 18months and I dont spend nearly enough time just playing with them. I work 2.5 days and my dh has his own (new) business so he works all the time so I do all the housework etc as well. On my afternoons off I try to spend half an hour with the older one while the younger one is asleep and then I get him to help me dust or load the washing machine etc. I take them each to separate swimming lessons so hopeflly that counts ?

So hard to find time for it all. And I am SO guilty of just letting them get on with it when they play nicely and only going to them when they fight

im with my 21month old constantly being a lone parent,drives me mad keeping him amused, he wont amuse himself yet. good day today, hes helped clean the windows, wash the car and dusting.

only time i get alone with eldest ds 11.5years is when i take him to footie training and matches and my has the youngest one. roll on footie season!

when I say 3 and 18 months I mean one is 3 years old, one is 18 months

Trouble is baby is refusing to sleep during the day (see my other thread!) which makes it so so hard to give my full attention to my dd. Baby is not happily awake either so my attention seems to go to him all the time. Feel very very guilty and torn.

ah if we count talking to them then 12 hours a day - ds never stops the chit chat its a full time job