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Are all one year olds absolutely awful company?

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TeethingAgain · 27/03/2020 15:28

My DD is 14 months old and every day especially on lockdown is a minute to minute struggle. She has an attention span of about 90 seconds (not exaggerating), clings to me and whinges for most of the day, shouts, cries, pulls my hair. Without baby groups etc to distract and occupy her (she won't watch TV and has LOADS of toys) this is pure hell. Is this normal? DH thinks she might have ADHD or something.

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Daffie19 · 27/03/2020 15:34

Oh give over!
She's 14 months old....
Are in interacting with her enough?
There's lots you can do with a young toddler, attention span will increase with age and activities.
My DS is 18 months now, was the same with attention span and now sometimes think he hasn't got much until he's off.
We paint together.
Draw.
Messy play in a tuff tray.
Garden, sand pit and slide.
Puzzles. Books.
Cars.
Nursery rhymes on the TV, or singing.

TeethingAgain · 27/03/2020 15:39

Interact constantly. Play in her kitchen, take her for walks, play in the garden etc.

Other people describe their babies as chilled and enjoyable company, we just don't see that at all she never just seems content.

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BakewellGin1 · 27/03/2020 18:48

My DS is just one.. We've spent this week alternating between playing in his room and downstairs so he isn't bored of same toys. Spends his time while I'm cooking watching me/his goldfish... He is starting to like songs so we have Dave and Ava nursery rhymes on a bit... He likes shape sorters at the moment so spend most of our time sorting the bloody things ha ha... Am using our time stuck in to try new snacks.. We don't have a garden so currently using our 1 hour excercise on a walk near home where there are a lot of trees as he likes seeing them move Grin

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