beckyteddy
31-10-2010, 10:51 AM
I mind for a little girl who is 3 (she turns 4 in December) and she is like a little tornado!!
What I really mean is that she won't sit down and play with toys by herself, she will just run around the play-room doing comedy fall's onto the floor or will follow the other children around trying to get them to play or look at her "pretty dress" even though my two are boys-boys and don't actually want to look at her dress or her hair-do! Her other tactic is when I ask her to find a book or a toy to play with (while I tend to the babies nappy or am making tea etc.) she will choose a board game which she would then need someone to play with or will choose a doctors kit in order to involve someone else or a story book to read to the baby instead of one that she would look through on her own.
We do lots of activities where we play together and do at least 2 or 3 board games each day, lots of story time together and fun play like dancing to boogie-music (that's Robbie Williams - Rock DJ in her world!) so it's not like she's not getting enough interaction from me, it's just that when I need her tojust give me 5 mins to concentrate on something or someone else she won't/can't entertain herself at all!
I'm wondering what kind of continuos provision I might be able to leave out for her to choose from, or if there's a trick...ehem..I mean, encouragement technique that I could try to help her learn to play by herself now and then through the day.
PS. I look after this little girl until 8.30pm two nights a week so I'm starting to loose the plot a little bit when she's still looning round the house after dark!
What I really mean is that she won't sit down and play with toys by herself, she will just run around the play-room doing comedy fall's onto the floor or will follow the other children around trying to get them to play or look at her "pretty dress" even though my two are boys-boys and don't actually want to look at her dress or her hair-do! Her other tactic is when I ask her to find a book or a toy to play with (while I tend to the babies nappy or am making tea etc.) she will choose a board game which she would then need someone to play with or will choose a doctors kit in order to involve someone else or a story book to read to the baby instead of one that she would look through on her own.
We do lots of activities where we play together and do at least 2 or 3 board games each day, lots of story time together and fun play like dancing to boogie-music (that's Robbie Williams - Rock DJ in her world!) so it's not like she's not getting enough interaction from me, it's just that when I need her tojust give me 5 mins to concentrate on something or someone else she won't/can't entertain herself at all!
I'm wondering what kind of continuos provision I might be able to leave out for her to choose from, or if there's a trick...ehem..I mean, encouragement technique that I could try to help her learn to play by herself now and then through the day.
PS. I look after this little girl until 8.30pm two nights a week so I'm starting to loose the plot a little bit when she's still looning round the house after dark!