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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2008, 00:18:52 am »
Our days are structured in a very unstructured way...  ;D
We have lots of free play but, if the kids get bored, I do something active with them in the morning:
  - Play "hide & seek" (they run to the kitchen door, which gives me enough time to hide somewhere obvious)
  - Play "follow the leader" (pretend to be various animals and they imitate me and they have to go over/under/through whatever I do)
  - Tumble around
  - Play with balls (I throw, they catch)
  - etc

Then lunch & nap (for little one) or quiet time (for the older one who naps maybe once a week).

Afternoons we usually play with playdoh, color, read books and that's all mixed in with lots of free play. Everything I read says that free play is extremely important - just let their imaginations go wild. I really only step in if they whine because they're bored or if they're beating each other up. ::)
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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2008, 02:37:26 am »
Oh I am SO glad I saw this post.  I love all your ideas of stuff to do with them.  Somehow each day I say to myself we are going to do whatever it may be, but then I get stuck cleaning or going out. 

We go out somewhere every single day, and I have to start staying at home more. 

Love the ideas.

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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2008, 02:45:41 am »
Love this post.
I have just purchased a double stroller so we are going to go walking every afternoon when the girls have had their sleep.
Plus a new shopping centre is opening 30min walk from my house soon so we will be able to go their too.
We also do alot of the stuff people have already listed.
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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2008, 19:35:25 pm »
Great ideas!  Love the Stop/Go...Paige will love that!  And spaghetti yarn is perfect!

Thanks :)
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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2008, 20:54:52 pm »
Our new craft is making 'jewelry' -- we take pipe cleaners and put noodles (like ziti) and beads on them, then wrap ends together to make a bracelet.  This has kept Owen SO busy! We spent half an hour putting the same bracelet together and apart several times.  So great for coordination! Plus satisifies his need to wear 'pretties'.  ::) My kid LOVES jewelry! Daddy is a little embarassed to bring his son festooned in jewels to the grocery store, but bless his heart he still does it!  ;D
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Re: SAHMs with 2+ year olds: how structured is your day?
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2008, 02:45:09 am »
Becky - LMAO at your DH taking O in the store with "jewels."  Brave man...my DH would be a big wuss and take them off :)
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