Activities for toddlers?

[Inaayah]

Aishah- For some reason I always assumed you had 2 boys and not girls.

[Gaashaanle1000]

I have organised my two week Easter activities for the kiddies:

Every other day swimming it free during the school holidays

We will be going to

Kidzania ,the city farm, science museum it's their favourite. Transport museum

If its hot out then picnic in the park. Hampton court palace maze and a mystery surprise this time it will frozen yoghurt when we come back from the park.

When it comes to discipline girls are harder than boys but I don't hit my kids unless it's something dangerous like running in the street

my eldest daughter talked back The other day
she must of lost her god damn mind

she was sent to her room for a week no tv no iPad no cake or biscuits. She hasn't talked back since

time out on the sofa for the younger ones and a slap on the wrist.. The youngest one wey ilbaxdey she will be sent to her room soon

Thanks those are some good suggestions.

I don't know about the boy yet, he is too young still. But he does cry a lot lot less (emphasis on two lots) than she did when she was the same age, so that could be a sign that he is calmer.

iPads and smart phones are a new bane, generally I try to keep her away from these things, but sometimes you give in when they are jumping all over the living room without rest.

Timeouts work the best I have noticed, they get time to think over what they did wrong.

[Sumubaridi]

blue and gaashan, 30 is new age of married with kids age in somalinet. we came far from 23 years old rage here.

Adeer it took me 5 years of research to find out my real age. Wiilasha are used to I am 30 gabdhahana I am 28. Mujaadaisha claimed 28 even though she admitted wanting to marry cumar Carte Qaalib who died in 1986

[Hyperactive]

the magic numbers;

single girls is 21 (now little changed, they graduated to 24-25 range), single men is 23

married men are 30 and married women as Aisha it's 26-29 range. lol

[Sumubaridi]

30 is the magic number for men 26 for girls

That is what I used to claim till I sat down oneday and asked myself. Who am i fooling?

[MujahidAishah]

Aishah- For some reason I always assumed you had 2 boys and not girls.

That's susu

I have boys and girls

[MujahidAishah]

blue and gaashan, 30 is new age of married with kids age in somalinet. we came far from 23 years old rage here.

Adeer it took me 5 years of research to find out my real age. Wiilasha are used to I am 30 gabdhahana I am 28. Mujaadaisha claimed 28 even though she admitted wanting to marry cumar Carte Qaalib who died in 1986

I'm 28 and Cumar carte Qaliib is alive and I don't want the old man

I want maxamed Cumar carte get it right Sxb

[Vivacious]

blue and gaashan, 30 is new age of married with kids age in somalinet. we came far from 23 years old rage here.

Adeer it took me 5 years of research to find out my real age. Wiilasha are used to I am 30 gabdhahana I am 28. Mujaadaisha claimed 28 even though she admitted wanting to marry cumar Carte Qaalib who died in 1986

I'm 28 and Cumar carte Qaliib is alive and I don't want the old man

I want maxamed Cumar carte get it right Sxb

You still want him even after susu told you that he has bad teeth

[Vivacious]

Btw he is in London. I hope you were among the people who welcomed him at the airport

[MujahidAishah]

Adeer it took me 5 years of research to find out my real age. Wiilasha are used to I am 30 gabdhahana I am 28. Mujaadaisha claimed 28 even though she admitted wanting to marry cumar Carte Qaalib who died in 1986

I'm 28 and Cumar carte Qaliib is alive and I don't want the old man

I want maxamed Cumar carte get it right Sxb

You still want him even after susu told you that he has bad teeth

That's just cosmetic a good dentist can fix that

[MujahidAishah]

Btw he is in London. I hope you were among the people who welcomed him at the airport

Say walahi hot damn I need to hit up my kuul gadiid inanka ha ii dhisaan

[InaSamaale]

the magic numbers;

single girls is 21 (now little changed, they graduated to 24-25 range), single men is 23

married men are 30 and married women as Aisha it's 26-29 range. lol

Good idea taking the video down. , Your siblings are adorable MashAllah. I would babysit them for free...

[Hyperactive]

you wouldnt sister, the boy is handful. you heard him yelling . he beats girls. tan yar horta is his ball. he pushes her to the floor, even if she sleeping he wakes her up to beat her.

he speaks "fas7ah= tradition arabic" cause he watches all cartoons on his ipad. when i yell at him he sais " lemaatha ya akhi al kabeer, matha fa'alt, taban lak"

he makes me laugh tho. i hope as grow he will calm down. can o teen ager noqdey loma adkeysan karo.

[Bella18]

So for the parents, uncles and aunties here, is there any specific fun and educational activities you can recommend for a very active little toddler girl? This is for my daughter, she is one of those very active toddlers constantly on the move, sometimes very loud when she doesn't get her way.

What do you do for fun with your kids? also when they misbehave how do you discipline them?

I often give her timeouts to calm down and stay quite, but she then screams "I am quite now", obviously not understanding the irony of what she is doing.

For fun, I take her to the park to run around, and am considering taking her swimming during summer. The play groups I find are not stimulating enough for her, sometimes it's like she's miles ahead of the other toddlers, watering plants and generally investigating everything in her path, at the same time taking things from the other kids and trying to start conversations with the parents. She never sits still when the nursery nurse starts group singing and starts singing and dancing int he middle of the class

Kudos to you for being hands-on father.
Evidence tells us that a person’s life success is linked to having stimulating early childhood. Caring, loving and supportive environments filled with lots of resources increase children’s chances of a successful transition to school.
When choosing activities, do not use them as tools to keep them busy. Make sure to cover all the developmental domains such as motor/physical, cognitive, social/emotional, communication/language. Provide plenty of resources and observe your child in their natural environment and see what they do with the resources in front of them. From this observation you can draw a conclusion of what they enjoy playing with the most.

Examples
Fine Motor Skills: Blocks. Maybe you can start off by building the blocks first and direct your child to do the same thing. This activity enhances child’s fine motor skills by using their hand and eye coordination to put the blocks together.

Gross motor: Dancing. Play fast music and instruct your child to jump around, shake their body and put their arms up in the air. This is not maalaayacni, dancing has great values. Having fun while improving and working on their gross motor skills by using large muscles of their body.

Communication: Sing a song. It could any nursery rhymes for example “if you happy and you know clap your hands”. This activity will encourage children to express their feelings, communicating through a song (it also covers emotional/ facial expressions).

Creativity: Sand play. If you live in a house that has backyard try setting up a little sand play area with equipment’s such as trucks, buckets, cups and funnels. This self-directed and individual play allows children to use their own imagination to create something using own ideas/thoughts. You can also try play dough, puzzles of ABC and 123, painting and reading a story to her.

Now to disciplining, you need to show authority by avoiding coming down to her level when speaking to her in a loud and clear tone. Do not repeat yourself and avoid giving her extra attention. You can also write up flash cards of the house rules and the consequences for breaking each rule.

[MujahidAishah]

Use I pad as a reward that's how I use it I got the oldest two washing dishes and hovering and the two younger ones make the bed and put shoes on the cupboard for a go then it's 20 mins each using an egg timer so they physically see thier time is up. They even wind it up them sleeves


But be firm and hold your ground when disciplining no matter how long they protest for