Lockdown with a one year old

[EmilyG1989]

I only want to hear from those who are bored shitless and can't entertain their babies for shit because they just eat everything and want to watch the telly all of the time. I've started to mix it up by getting Alexa to play random music so I don't have the drone of love monster going round in my head all day.

I have a three year old so from these lofty heights of parenting wisdom:

Get a bubble gun off Amazon
Stick them in the bath with some toys and a brush, and a bit of foamy soap
Go out for walks unless the rain is literally horizontal

It sucks, you have my sympathy

Mine is teething and won't let me put him down today. I can only write this because he's nursing while watching Mr Tumble (which he has been doing for 45 minutes but God forbid I try to stop him).
At least it's not raining and we've had 2 walks today so I feel less guilty about the screen time : /

Lunch time baths with toys. Telly. Snacks. Walks. Rinse and repeat.

My youngest was just 13 months during the first lockdown. I was so bored as she couldn't walk then either.

I went out every day for an hour long walk through the park. Then there was lots of CBeebies.

I really liked the baby club on CBeebies for a bit of entertainment in the day. My 3 year old liked it too.

Thanks guys, I've been for a walk today and I rotate his toys, so boring 😂 and the mum guilt is top notch 👍🏼

My daughter was this age in the first lockdown. I used to cry every day. It was so tedious and depressing. I can imagine it’s a hundred times worse now with less daylight and crap weather. (I say I imagine as this time round mine goes to childcare making it less stressful!! Also as she can now walk and parks are open we can go there whereas first lockdown we were limited to walks with her in the sling or buggy.)

I have no suggestions, but a lot of sympathy.

Thank you @modgepodge! He does walk but obviously he's very small. Your message has made me feel better. I worm 3 days and my mum has him, I think I just need to remember he'll talk and communicate one day and we can do lots more together xx

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Yep walks, tv, snacks, bath time, playing with toys for 2 mins before getting bored. I just plonk him down in the house now and follow him round as he grabs cables and muddy shoes etc.

Was soooo much easier in lockdown 1 when he was a newborn and I could watch Netflix all day snuggled on the sofa and stroll around with the pram in the sun.

I like to alternate CBeebies with nature documentaries because it makes me feel marginally less guilty about the amount of time DS gets in front of the TV. We also make and eat lots of cookies and cakes. Magnets are his latest find. He spent about an hour the other day reorganising the magnets on the fridge. We live in a flat and have a long hallway outside the door so I let him run up and down that a few times too. Sometimes I throw a ball so he has to scamper after it.

During the first lockdown I divided the day into segments, broken up by snacks/meals.
Milk
Play
8 am breakfast
activity (play, colouring, TV)
10 am snack
Outside no matter what the weather
12pm lunch
Nap
2pm snack
TV, books, film, running about while mummy sobs gently
4.30 tea
More books, TV, running, sobbing
6pm bath

It meant I never had to get through longer than two hours at a time before we could reset and start something new. I was also trying to work at the same time. You have my sympathies.

We bought a lot of books, magnet building blocks were a huge success, also water beads.

@Crimblecrumble1990 so relatable 😂
Thanks for all of your sympathies guys! It makes me feel better. He's in a great routine with naps and meals it's just the dull time in between, I feel I should be doing more, I juggle sometimes but can only do it with two balls. 😂

@mynameiscalypso if I tried to bake with him he'd grab the bowl and Chuck it on the floor 😂 he's not old enough to pay any attention to me yet. Is your one year old baking? See I'm failing at life! Hahaaa

I genuinely had to check I hadn't started this thread!!! I'm sooooo fucking bored og being in lockdown with a small person. He's now 13 months old teething his molars and still not walking I genuinely feel like I've been a parent for about a million years...

@Si1ver Sobs gently 😂
I think because he's my first I don't know what's coming with his development so I feel stuck in a rut but I know as he grows we'll play so much together and I'll buy all the board games I used to play and paint etc. I know I can paint with him now but he'd just eat it!! I'm telling you, that kid has made my house spotless, who needs a Hoover 🤣💙

I bought a small indoor slide for my 15 month old... Keeps him busy for ages.
I hear you though... It's very dull.

Yes @Same4Walls!! It might be a blessing they're not walking yet 😂🤦🏻‍♀️
I just feel sorry him.
My whole motherhood has been spent in lockdown basically. When soft play opened I took him and he loved it and then that was his lot! I lost my baby weight in July so I'm back to my old self again but the weather is PANTS! missed out on the summer as I felt so shite, any who apart from my chronic back pain I'm ready to back at 'em! He'd love the zoo etc and we planned to take him on his 1st birthday, 26/11 but lockdown happened the week before ☹️
Everyone is in the same boat I just feel sorry for the bubba and that I'm not doing enough. It's hard to be motivated! Especially when he loves the telly. Aaah mum guilt!!! 😂

@Hangingtrousers I have so.many.toys. He just eats them 😂 I've built loads of megablocs animals though 😀

[quote EmilyG1989]@Hangingtrousers I have so.many.toys. He just eats them 😂 I've built loads of megablocs animals though 😀[/quote]
Are you sure you're ot actually me... Mine chews everything and merrily trashes his nursery (the 4 wallls we spend most of our day in when Daddy is working from home) whilst I sit there making elaborate towers out of his building blocks.

[quote EmilyG1989]@mynameiscalypso if I tried to bake with him he'd grab the bowl and Chuck it on the floor 😂 he's not old enough to pay any attention to me yet. Is your one year old baking? See I'm failing at life! Hahaaa[/quote]
God no. I pose him next to the bowl with a spoon so I can get a cute picture to send to his grandparents. Then he tries to eat the raw mixture and I try to wrestle it off him. Then I finish whatever it is while he amuses himself with the lid of a Tupperware container. Then I eat a shitload of cake because I'm very self-sacrificing and often him a tiny bit.

Same here.

Pretty much my DDs whole life has been in lockdown. She's 14months but spent the first 3 months of her life unwell. If it wasn't for the fact she's now at nursery she wouldn't have played with another child yet.

I find the 4 days she's home with me a real long slog. Especially because my DH is working from home. I'm tip toeing around him, trying to stop her distracting him, and now the weather is awful it's hard to get her out of the house for more than an hour a day.

I just want to scream!!!! I feel so guilty that we're not having fun and her days at home with me and 1000times more boring that nursery days when she's not with me.

We were out in torrential rain today. Dd loved it. She exhausted herself. Get outside even in torrential rain.

Baby club on CBeebies
Little baby bum on YouTube cast onto TV
Baths
Outside before and after nap

It will keep you sane

We were out in torrential rain today. Dd loved it. She exhausted herself. Get outside even in torrential rain.

I'm glad she had fun I wish DS liked the rsin but honestly my child absolutely hates being out when it's wet. He hates the rain on him, hates being under the rain cover, hates the sound it makes and on and on. It's just not worth the energy or stress to force him to go outside.

I feel for you. Not sure how would I survive with one year old. I had two year old and she is not happy if rains. Having a dog helps a lot. My DD was a fun of sticker books when 15 months that kept her entertained.

All these people saying about going outside whatever the weather are your LOs walking?

If I take my DS out she just whines because shes hates the pram and then eventually falls asleep. Which means one less nap (and break for me) when we're home.