terrydoo73
03-06-2010, 10:16 AM
We have had a glorious couple of days here in Northern Ireland with wall to wall sunshine - just to uplifting!
However my mindees are not enjoying it! The twins I look after go to bed around mid day so are not out in the heat at the critical times but the other one I look after aged 4 1/2 just cannot settle to play outside. She seems to get bored very easily and prefers to be inside watching a DVD. I do not give in to her however as I feel we have had too many days just lazing about!!
It is not to say I haven't enough toys outside - sand and water trays, playhouses, slides, rockers, ride ons, tea set and dolls house, tractors and diggers and she can bring out any number of puzzles, games, books, playdough that she wants because there are tables galore to work on. She still insists on a toy that is not out however which is very annoying because no sooner have you brought it out of the playroom but she walks away and plays with something entirely different.
The twins I notice do get fed up quickly as well and end up getting into more mischief that anything else but I can usually channel that energy into something more constructive! I have a little dwarf rabbit in our yard in a well enclosed cage and just yesterday I watched them poking their fingers in without realising they were trying to feed it sand!! Then I noticed them trying to climb over the gate to get beyond the wall - the gate is adult size and they were quite a way up very quickly! They also find dirt in the most unbelievable ways - yesterday I had to spend a good hour brushing a section of the concreted yard!
Is it the weather that makes them like this or boredom? I thought I had everything sussed in terms of play and activities but obviously not!
However my mindees are not enjoying it! The twins I look after go to bed around mid day so are not out in the heat at the critical times but the other one I look after aged 4 1/2 just cannot settle to play outside. She seems to get bored very easily and prefers to be inside watching a DVD. I do not give in to her however as I feel we have had too many days just lazing about!!
It is not to say I haven't enough toys outside - sand and water trays, playhouses, slides, rockers, ride ons, tea set and dolls house, tractors and diggers and she can bring out any number of puzzles, games, books, playdough that she wants because there are tables galore to work on. She still insists on a toy that is not out however which is very annoying because no sooner have you brought it out of the playroom but she walks away and plays with something entirely different.
The twins I notice do get fed up quickly as well and end up getting into more mischief that anything else but I can usually channel that energy into something more constructive! I have a little dwarf rabbit in our yard in a well enclosed cage and just yesterday I watched them poking their fingers in without realising they were trying to feed it sand!! Then I noticed them trying to climb over the gate to get beyond the wall - the gate is adult size and they were quite a way up very quickly! They also find dirt in the most unbelievable ways - yesterday I had to spend a good hour brushing a section of the concreted yard!
Is it the weather that makes them like this or boredom? I thought I had everything sussed in terms of play and activities but obviously not!