Am I missing a trick? How do other mums with 2 manage this stage?
Ds2 is 10mo and almost walking. Cruising round the furniture everywhere and smashing his head on the floor every 5 mins. Or wanting to hold my finger and walk around the house trashing it.
His favourite activity is demolishing 3.6yo DS1's train track/car garage/dinosaur tableaux (!) that he has built or whatever he is playing with really.
As such I am finding it impossible to sit down and play with ds1 whilst the baby is awake. Luckily the baby naps for an hour in the morning and 90 mins after lunch and I always make sure I get straight down on the floor and play trains or whatever so ds1 during baby's nap time even though I really want to lie on the sofa and drink gin
But even so, this is a lot less mummy attention than ds1 is used to and as such his behaviour has gone right down the shitter of late. Tantrums, not listening, outright disobedience and rough/hurtful behaviour towards the baby aplenty.
What is everyone else with 2 kids doing? Is the 3 year old supposed to just bimble about on his own waiting rather sadly for the baby to go down for a sleep??? I try to find things for us all to do together but it always ends in the baby wrecking it or sustaining a mild head injury after around 4 minutes. Gah!
The older one does go to nursery 3 days so I am not worried about his stimulation levels generally. And we do go out A LOT to parks and groups etc cod it's easier put and about.
But ye gods every minute in te house with them feels like a year...!
Please give me your tips to survive this stage and tell me it ends please?!?
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Finding it impossible to play with 3.6yo when 10mo baby is awake 😫
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BotBotticelli · 14/06/2016 15:49
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