If you are a SAHM or a parent who is home during the day in general, do you get out a lot with your LO during the day? If so, what do you guys do? LO and I are trapped at home because we only have one car, and it is way too cold out to walk anywhere right now. Once DH gets a car, and I get mine back I really want to get her out of the house more. I need some ideas of what we can do!
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We're in a similar position, with one car and crappy weather. We don't get out much during the week. I just registered us for a Baby Story Hour at our local library, and we'll get out and about and walk more once the weather gets nicer. I'm really limited where we live...there are really no Mommy and Me classes or Gymboree or anything like that.
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@FutureMrsMcK: I want to sign up for some story time too, I know we have Gymboree classes but it's the cost that limits us for that one.
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We go out pretty much every day. We go to the library weekly for storytime and we go for walks pretty often ( 4 or more times a week). Once some of the snow melts we'll start playing in the yard every day (hopefully in the next couple months). We also go to an indoor play area at least once a week, either McDonald's or this pay to play place 20 minutes away. Other places we go less frequently: the park (it still has a lot of snow, though), sledding on a hill by our house, to the duck pond, hiking/nature walks on trails, to the zoo/aviary/aquarium, and for a playdate with our friends. I also usually have to run errands one day a week.
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Every day. We run errands, go shopping, go to classes, or just walk! Even if it's really cold (today it's in the 20s) we bundle up and go out.
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DS is in Kindergarten, so we don't do much during the day. When he's got days off, we go places, though. (well, not lately, cause dh doesn't want me to venture too far in my 9th month, lol) And, I plan on keeping them really busy in the summers, like I always do with DS.
We go to the library, shopping, to the Children's Museum nearby, another museum uptown...lots of museums, actually, that are great for kids, the park, the zoo.
Speaking of the zoo, when ds was a baby and I was a sahm mom with him, I got a membership to a zoo nearby, and went at least once a week. DS was free, and the walk around the zoo was fun for me, and even though he was just a baby, he enjoyed seeing the animals.
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I'm a WOHM, but still found some things for me or my mom (who cares for DS during the day) to do with the little guy! We found that our local Gymboree-type place was running a free class for the winter session (free with $30 registration fee, a total of 11 classes), and we also signed him up for Music with Mar and swimming at the YMCA. At 7 months, DS loves to be around other babies, and it gives us something to do for an hour during the day.
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@katiew92081: I wish we had all of that available where we live! The big gathering place around here is the library! We're hoping to move to a slightly bigger city soon--open up more options!
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Lots of great ideas! We have parks, libraries, children's museums, regular museums, zoo's, Gymboree classes...LO isn't even 5 months old though, so maybe this summer would be better to pay for and sign up for stuff, so it's not a waste of money.
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@futuremrsmck: Yeah, Charlotte is nice when it comes to activities for kids. The library is good, too! They usually have a lap baby thing at some of the ones in this area, where they sing songs and you interact things with your baby.
Plus, a 5 year old is stimulated by different things than a baby and have more of an assortment of what they can do...LO to be is going to be doing a lot of just tagging along this summer, lol.
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Just ended my maternity leave. It's been cold in MI and a bad flu season so I was really conservative through week 6. Since then I started taking LO out to visit friends, grocery shop, walk at the mall, etc. We run errands and eat out on wknds with LO in tow.
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@Bao: I'm gonna steal these ideas for my maternity leave!
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Yup, try to take her out at least once a day (unless we are sick or it's too yucky outside). Usually it's the library story hour, play dates with friends, visits to grandma and grandpa, or errands.
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There are free mommy and me classes for under 6month olds here...so we do that plus shop.
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@MungBean: You have the perfect amount of going-out activities! *Envious*
I wish I had friends or family around. I barricade myself indoors as well, and cold is not an excuse I can use, though my not having a car is a semi-okay excuse. We do take walks to the library, but I'm just waiting for when DS can actually walk. Right now, I wear him in my carrier while he passively takes in the world.
I wish I had friends or family around. Reply
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