tips on how i can play with baby more please stupid i know but need to ask

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i want to start playing with bbay more like sitting down and playing with his toys with him and tickling rymes and things as i don't feel i am doing enough he is under 9 mth so not exactly mobile or anything so how do u play with ur ds do u sit down once a day with him or do u like play with him a few times a day if so can u tell me how to do it sorry thick i know

Its great you want to play more with baby, but you can make the most mundane things into a game. Sorting the washing for example, you can sing to him, let him fiddle with the socks while you sort.

I think its good to make time, but I would'nt stress about making it too regimented. Just keep chatting away to him all day, he'll be picking so much up from that.

I remember those days of not knowing what to do! lol
play a few times a day - singing songs (help hi m do the actions), reading books, carrying round the house and showing him things. He wont really play yet, but you can use toys to interact with him - you know brumming a toy car around, mooing a toy cow with him. Basically YOU play with the toys with him.
Mine used to love music - so listening / singing and bouncing along, or dancing round the room singing to abba! Surprisingly liberating too ;)

At that age I would sit DS on my knee and sing him simple nursery ryhmes with maybe a couple of actions, maybe a couple of times a day if we both felt like it. We read a lot of books.

Otherwise I agree with mrsmaidamess, it's lovely to play with your DS but at this age and for a long time all they need is to be with you 'helping' and watching what you are doing. My DS idea of a treat at 2 years is to weigh the ingredients for dinner or to put the carrots in the shopping basket at the greengrocers.

Peek-a-boo.
Tickling.
Kisses.
Raspberries on his tum.
Lift him up high.
Bounce him on your knee.
Sing to him.
Chat to him.
Make him jump with "boo!"
Drape a soft gauzey scarf over him.

Just prop him so he can see you and get on with your day while you chat to him, stopping once in a while for a cuddle and a mess about because he's so cute you can't resist.

thanks anyone got some rymes i can do cos i can't actually remmber any i have just got a traintrack and he is loving watching me push the trains round

I am a bit rubbish at this stuff too - the only rhymes I could remember were "this little piggy went to market" and "round and round the garden like a teddy bear".

Love oldbea's suggestions they're pretty much what I got up to with DD. We had tickle-time and kissy-face [soppy].

Trains sound fab!

Do you go to any mother and baby/toddler groups where they do singing? That is where I got most of my songs from. My DS favourites are:

The wheels on the bus go round and round
Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle twinkle little star
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands
Ring a ring a roses (especially now he's old enough to do the actions)

If you don't remember the words then google them - I am sure there are loads of sites. Alternatively you can often get books of ryhmes and actions from the library and sometimes with CDs to join in.

thanks for starting this thread. dd is 11mo and i'm the same. I do lots of the things mentioned on here but don't feel i Play with her, she rolls/crawls about the floor while i watch and make sure she doesn't hurt herself, and I drink tea and watch TV. I do "boo!", lifting up high, raspberries and tickles and kisses, we sit and watch night garden and have a cuddle, we do nursery rhymes with actions (twinkle twinkle, wheels on bus, row row row your boat, this little piggy) and old mcdonald with toy animals so she learns what cow, pig etc look like and their noises and we read a book each bed time. she likes musical/noisy toys to shake. Our library does a baby & toddler rhyme time each week which is free and is just singing nursery rhymes - a good way to learn them. find out if your library does something similar. Just bought thisfor her birthday