Try to add at least one practical life activity to each of those play blocks. My daughter is 15m and I do about 2-3 hours of independent play per day, broken up into 3 sections. As they get older, they can get more independent play time, but 6 hours at 12m is way too much in my opinion. If you mean free play as in he decides what he wants to do, but you are talking/playing with him a lot, that's great. ![]() Independent play is a great type of play but he still needs a lot of interaction from you for language, social development, and for learning basically everything he can't learn from independent play, which is a lot. If by "free time" you mean totally independent play and you're not really engaging with him, I personally feel like 5-6 hours is too much. Other times, a meal might get skimped out on.Īnd like at “bed time”, that’s actually “rest time for mama and dada”, it’s not about forcing the kid to sleep - if they want to stay up an extra hour to finish an activity, then so be it. During growth phases, there’s sometimes 2 extra meals. If the kid is hungry, it’s mealtime, regardless what the clock says. And what happens - all the park or walk etc, we take feedback from the kid, and usually try to follow their whims when feasible. If you see above, we leave lots of opportunity for the kid to manage their own timing. We do something fun together - dance or play or wrestle etc. Get the energy out, then home for bed.īefore bed, last call on foods. Some days we do individual reading time for 15-45 mins - everyone reads a book. My wife and I usually eat by 7 but kid sometimes does later. ![]() Then dinner is between 6 and 8 (depending how hungry the kid is). Nap ends usually between 4-6 (kid isn’t sleeping the whole time, plays independently for a while too).Īfter nap, we do at home play in the yard or indoors. ![]() Or we bring it home and eat the packed lunch at home. If we will be out until around/after noon, we will pack a lunch so we have the option to eat out. Then (on a weekend), we usually go for a walk/hike/adventure. Our kid wakes up sometime between 8 and 9:30, and plays for 0-60 minutes then knocks on the door asking for breakfast. We don’t keep a tight schedule unless there’s an external factor (ex: we need to be at grandmas at 11). Should I be having one sensory activity/shelf work/real life activity per wake window? How should I structure his wake time better? I know he is learning because he is super smart and picks up on his toys very quickly but he does not engage with them for long (again I know developmentally normal). I do have his pikler set up and he goes from that to his shelf but it seems a little like just letting him do nothing. ![]() The times he is awake it just seems like it's all very unstructured. I work a lot better with schedules/structure so maybe I'm stressing out for no reason but what is your day like? For us it is like this:ħam-8:45am : wake up, nurse, prepare and eat breakfast, brush teeth and get ready for the dayġ0:10-11:30am : getting ready for and nappingġ1:30am-12:45pm : nursing and having lunch, brushing teethĦ:30-8pm : dinner, bath, nursing and bed time My LO is about to turn 1 year old and I've been struggling on what to do with him as it just currently seems very unstructured for me.
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