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Typical day with 12 month old

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Cookiemg · 30/03/2010 19:31

would you say that this is a typical chunk of day with a 1 year old.

Wakes 7am
breakfast finished 8.30
read or roleplay for 15 mins until 8.45
freeplay until 9am
play/ draw/ make until 9.30 am
sleep until 11am
snack until 11.20
lunch 11.45-12
finish lunch 1pm
get ready to go out to meet people or baby group until 3-4pm

I'm trying to follow the nursery's structure.
Thanks for your input.

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TeddyBare · 30/03/2010 19:37

dd isn't 12 months yet so feel free to ignore me, but it seems very unnatural to me. How are you getting on with it? I feel like you'd be forever rushing from one thing to the next and never really having any fun because you'd be stopping too quickly. By the time you've chosen a book and sat down you've only got time for a couple of pages of the story. It all seems to be very inside focused too. Are you based in a city? I would want to have quite a long time for wandering around the garden collecting stones or going to the park with the dog or something. It looks like you have to go to toddler groups a lot too which can't be much fun.

ruddynorah · 30/03/2010 19:44

why are you trying to follow the nursery structure? your 12m old will understand home is different to nursery.

apple99 · 30/03/2010 20:53

Whatever works for you and gets you through the day but for me your day sounds much to structured. When dd was that age I had a much more go with the flow way of doing things. Meals and naps were the only things that happened at a similar time each day. Also I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing but I have never taken dd to a toddler group so I suppose we had more time to do whatever we pleased.

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MegBusset · 30/03/2010 21:05

Mine mostly traipses round after me while I cook/clean/do washing/chase after three-year-old.

Is this your PFB by any chance?

SqueezyB · 30/03/2010 21:19

Is your LO about to start nursery so you're trying to follow what they do? If so I'd just think about mealtimes/naptimes. I don't think play activities necessarily need to be structured when you're at home. Tbh all day is 'free play' at our house - sometimes DD (age 2) wants to play with playdough at 7.30 am, sometimes she wants to draw, sometimes she slobs out in front of Peppa Pig, all are fine with me! Even at nurseries they vary the activities from day to day so they don't necessarily do the same thing at the same time each day.

I would disagree with the last couple of posts though, in that toddler groups and playdates are the only thing that keep me sane! No more than one a day though.

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Cookiemg · 30/03/2010 21:35

Yeah it's my first baby and I guess I've been a bit clueless as to what to do with the days now that she's started to need more entertainment. I'm not very good at going with the flow in my own life and am a real
planner. Whose flow do I go with? Thanks for this, I was looking at the nursery's structure to try to give our days structure as I was feeling guilty for not 'educating' her. I've been knackered because of this.

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Cookiemg · 30/03/2010 21:40

She's at nursery for a day and a half each week. I agree about playdates, they keep me sane too. Is it okay to watch tv, none of my other mum mates talk about having the tv on.

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suwoo · 30/03/2010 21:41

Ha ha ha. Sorry for laughing, I was very similar to you (although perhaps not as anal) with my pfb. Now I have 3 kids, my poor Ds2 is lucky if he is unstrapped from his car seat for any proportion of the day.

Freeplay. Arf.

winnybella · 30/03/2010 21:53

Kids just want to be with you and they learn by observing you. DD is now almost 14m, but we have no schedule except meals and nap and bedtime.
We play, she follows me around the house while I'm cleaning, cooking etc., we go for walks, we go to the park.When she feels like it, she'll go off to play on her own, then come to me to 'help' out with loading the washing machine or making the bed. It depends what we feel like at any given moment, really and on what I need to do.
She's almost always in a good mood, which means she's happy.
I can't see any benefits to being rigid like that.

SqueezyB · 30/03/2010 22:01

Everyone is different, but in my experience people claim their kids never watch tv, then they look at one of DD's in in the night garden books and can name all the characters... Obviously it's not good to stick them in front of the telly all day, but I don't see anything wrong with a bit of tv time - at that age probably the only thing DD was into was in the night garden on CBeebies, it seemed to send her into a trance before bedtime!

As for 'educating' her, you are doing that just by being with her and interacting! That is all they need at this age, just talk to her and help her get confident on her feet if she isn't walking already, 12 months is an amazing time when they start walking and talking and turning into a proper person! Just get out a few different toys for her each day and let her explore them and do what she wants to do. As the weather's getting better you can take her out to the park, let her point at flowers and ducks and dogs etc, loads of fun to be had. I'm sure you are doing it all anyway, all the things you suggested sound like great activities, maybe just lose the structure and do what you feel like each day?

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Cookiemg · 30/03/2010 22:31

Thank you squeezy, I don't think that there's anything wrong with a bit of tv either and yes, I have experienced the 'no telly' attitude but the baby has an upsy daisy doll. We shall try to go with a bit of what she wants and a bit if what I want to do and we'll see where that takes us. X

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katechristie · 31/03/2010 10:58

have you got any nursery rhyme CDs? - these are lazy good entertainment - you can sing along with them and do the actions every so often, so then when you put them on, they tend to pick up the actions after a while, and happily entertain themselves with them sometimes as long as you sing along every so often - esp. handy for when you want to get stuff done, they think you're joining in and they seem very happy with the music!

I rememeber when DS was starting nursery and I had to fill in a form for them with his daily schedule on. Well, I was panicking about it like it was an exam - I studied their daily schedule on the wall in baby room and tried to put similar times to everything he did (including nappy changes!!!) - thinking they'd think I was a crap parent if I didn't do a similar amount of entertaining etc. hilarious when I think back now. DD is starting nursery in a few weeks and this time I'll just put on her daily schedule rough meal times and that's about it.

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