Risha is two and a half. She has started rattling nursery rhymes, choosing her clothes at home and at the store. She is easily bribed by her favorite chocolate Gems. She creates her own routine and tells me lets do this today. I give her a choice you want to go to the park or the club or to a friends place. She answers I want to go with this friend to so and so park.
We also love school as we get to play with other children. These are the days when the trend is parents with a single child in the majority. However the kids need their own peers so where the earlier generation would not want the holidays to end this one waits for school to reopen. All the kids were brimming with excitement first day of school. My daughter was all smiles she couldn’t wait to run in.
Another thing we mothers are constantly at a loss, “How do we entertain an only child 24×7 ?” We join classes, get them interested in isolated activities like painting, clay modeling, craft … I even joined a toy library which i definitely recommend. My daughter had three new toys every week and would change them again next week. In any case their attentive span on a toy is not more than a couple of minutes. Even going to and fro to the library becomes an activity.
Outdoor activity also has been number one on our list. Going to the park and playing with sand toys, swinging, sliding and throwing stones in the sea, watching the swans and the birds. Nothing like being connected to nature. When weather permits we also swim and at two and half we have already graduated to hand floats. Of course all this means you have to be a full time mama. Work from home preferably have your workstation in the same room as your child’s playroom. Why? Because they want to be in the same room as another person. You are there, yet not there. I write this blog while helping my daughter with her stickers. That is the way it is. That is the way it will be at least for a while.
