How often do you take DC out?

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My friend has one DS aged nearly 2. She is giving herself a hard time about not doing enough with him during the week and 'just' being at home playing with him.
I've tried telling her that's a lovely thing to do but she doesn't believe me and says everyone else is always out doing loads.
I thought if I posted on here I could show her the replies and it might help (I promise I'm not a Daily Fail journo!).
Do you all take your DCs out every day?

Wow, compared to you guys I don't do
much at all with DD! Now she's at school, she's off two half days in the week, and I'll take her into town, we'll have lunch and I'll do some shopping. She'll often play on the slide/climbing frame thing in the shopping centre, but then it's home. Oh, we go to the library once every 3 weeks.

She's never been to soft play, never been swimming, never had a play date. We go to the park occasionally, and she does play with a couple of the other kids in our street if they're about.

In my defence, I don't live in my native country, am kind of shy and don't speak the language fluently, so don't have any friends with similarly-aged children, haven't got to know the parents at the school gate etc. We did get invited to our first play date last week, and also got invited to soft play so hopefully things will improve.

Well my new plan is to do 2 activities per day (park, swimming etc. Or could just be supermarket or dog walk) mainly for my own sanity because they drive me mental round the house all day.

I'm sure it's of no detriment to the kid but I would find it difficult to stay sane spending a whole week at home. Why does she not take him out more if she feels bad?

I could not stay in my kids would drive me nuts! We go out everyday I have a 31/2year old and a 21month old. I have membership at 2 places for days out which are within 15 min drive. We go to toddler groups maybe once or twice a week, play dates at other friends houses, we live on the coast so we go on a walk once or twice a week either beach, along the river or into the woods. We wear rain suits for splashing in puddles. We go to soft play maybe once every couple of weeks. When money is low we just go out for picnics, ride bikes, walks, lots of parks, we make up adventures like going to see the tiger who lives in the woods or finding bugs ect; we also do swimming almost every week. we do have the occasional day in where we do arts and crafts, baking ect; But most days we are out between 10&3 it works well for us. But I have some friends who only go out 2 or 3 times a week, the kids will get used to whatever you do. When I had just 1 we didn't go out every day but now there's 2 I cannot stand being stuck in with them all day x

I have a 22m old and a 4m old and I find I have to go out every day otherwise the day is so long! We go to playgroups, library/park, music class, stay and play at the children’s centre. If we stay in I find I end up sticking cbeebies on too much as dd just gets bored.

We go to a toddler group and a craft class once weekly and a swimming lesson on the weekend. The rest of the week we'll go visit friends, walk the dogs, go to the play park, kick a ball around, play trains, today we went to the pool with nana. He likes going to the supermarket and putting things in the trolley and a wander round carpet shops seem to be a strange favourite.

We did about 6 months of no groups when my shifts were all over the place at work but it's a long week trying to entertain an 18 month old. I needed the structure for my own sanity.