feels like i'll have baby brain forever. Happy birthday for Friday. Lu generally can entertain herself for a few hours now. I do change the scenery a bit, go for a walk or play in the garden, by that, i mean i swing in the hammock and she paints a mural on the concrete (or her sister), or rips my seedlings out, or rides her bike! No Kindy here. If i was in Aus i would send her though, she is well and truly ready.
Happy Birthday for last Friday Mamapan!!! With regards to the learning ladder stuff, i think you can only buy through party plan. Maybe have a look at their website - they might have a 'dealer' in your area.
H won't go to Kindy next year - because she will turn 4 after the 30th of June, she has to wait until the following year, which suits me fine. I'm going to miss her heaps when she starts kindy.
My Dh is the same with the girls on the weekend. I think because he works all week and doesn't get to spend a great deal of time with them he likes to fill the weekend with fun stuff. This is great, but i also remind him that they are busy at school and just pottering around at home is fun for them. During the week, i do make the fun for H most of the time. I guess because she's used to having her sisters playing with her, and i feel guilty if i leave her to play by herself. (she's so much fun to be around anyway )
JM - saw that you are sick now - you poor thing. I hope you're all feeling much better soon.
MP, we try to limit to half day things because he doesn't have a nap and tends to lose it a bit by dinner time if he has had an entire day. Usually I have activities that we do in the morning and then have the afternoon at home. In the weekend we try to do something for a couple of hours like a bushwalk but we often end up staying at home the whole day too. At home he usually entertains himself, driving trucks, building huts/nests we just call out the occasional comment or countdown so he can blast off etc.
W is off to kindy in Sept when he turns 3. In NZ most kids start around their third birthday and there are 20 govt funded free hours of early childhood education for every kid. We have been going for visits for the past few months and he likes it, but it may be a different story when I leave him there lol
Jazah is the right person to ask about Learning Ladder lol. I don't know if they have that here, but I have been showing W the Learning Eggs website (have just got the free trial) and he is really enjoying it (read: constant nagging to play).
right, confusion over the razor sorted, i think!
got one for a gift and one for J. gonna see how L goes on J's one, then get him a 2 wheeler one for his bday.
mp- happy birthday. we generally go out and do activities for the morning, but try to be home between 12-1pm for j's sleep. L will just have quiet time watching tv or playing duplo or helping me do something.
i have enrolled L for 3 yo kinder for next year. he starts in feb. he is soooooo excited.
i actually did a complete backflip on deciding between the 2 kinders and am going to the closest one. we went to their open day on sat and L absolutely loved it there. dh liked it much better too, and i really got along well with the teacher. she seemed a lot more tolerant and warm iykwim? L didn't want to leave!
also had some major problems with the other one- they sent me letters saying completely different things and weird emails to the wrong name and about the wrong kid iykwim? really put me off
i didn't think this was actually possible, but i think J is actually more of a terror than L was at this age. i don't know what has happened to him, but he has turned into the devil!! a woman at the kinder the other day said to me 'it's like he has an outboard motor attached to the back of him!" he just does not stop. my sweet little baby is a crusty demon of dirt!!
LOL G, I know the feeling! Yesterday at football I was talking to one of the older Mums - her DD coaches the girls netball team so she is nearly 16 and her youngest is 14 and she was saying she couldn't get over how fast A got about the place, one minute he was in one spot and the next time she looked around he was in a totally different spot but she did say that she has probably just forgotten what it was like LOL. Glad you have the kinder sorted out. A will start in February as well but we don't have enrollment till October. That sounds really unprofessional of the other one though to send out emails about other people.
Happy Belated Birthday MP!!! Sounds like you had a wonderful day. I think I know what those robot things are, they look pretty good. As I said to G, A will go next year as well. At our preschool they can go for a full or a half day at 3yo, and then as many as 3 days as 4yo's (the year before they start school) so two years all up. He will do a full day next year and I'm thinking of enrolling him for 2 days the year after but we're not decided on that yet. Alister probably spends half the day playing on his own - outside in the dirt with the trucks or riding bikes/scooters or he is inside playing with his cars or the trains. He just loves being the only one here because no one bugs him. Maybe it's just your DH's way of making it up to N for working and not seeing him so much? Maybe you could compromise with him and have every second weekend out doing something and then have a home weekend where you all just hang out at home?
Jaz, I didn't realise they had a big cut off like that for kinder in QLD. So she will be well over 4 before she starts then?
Trill - yeah, she will be one of the older children too. If they don't fill all the spots at Pre-prep, she may get offered a place. Whilst I know she'd love it, she would be much younger compared to the other children in the class.
I bought some Duplo yesterday at the target sale. I ummed and aaahed, but thought that it would be something that we can all sit down and play together. I ended up getting a big 200 set. No wheels in it, but the girls have all got heaps of cars anyway. It will be something that we can add to over the years as well. So thanks for the idea everyone
I'm half way through my mountain of ironing, so i'd better get back to it. I want to be finished before Masterchef comes on.
So do kindy kids in Australia not go every day? W starts out with two mornings, but they will hold the full time (every day) spot for me for a few weeks so we can assess how he is going, and if I want to take it slower they will offer full time again in Nov. Perhaps we are a whole country of hot-housers? lol
The other thing that is worth a think about for birthdays and xmas is the v-smile video game systems. I was hesitant to get him into video games this young, but DH was really keen so we hired it from toy library and it was really good. We had a Cars game with it and he had about 8 of the games sorted by the time it went back two weeks later (and to his credit I couldn't figure out the remaining two!). It is pretty basic stuff like memory, sorting stuff into piles like blue or paper, counting games etc but I guess it is at least a bit more interactive than just watching the telly.
I have no idea how it works in the other states Arte because the education systems are different. In NSW they do two years of preschool none which is not compulsory (but in the best interests of the child to send them). We only sent L for the year before he started school but the girls did the 2 years. And then once they are 5, or just about to turn 5 they start Kindergarten which is 'big school' and that is fulltime. If you had your child in fulltime childcare because you work then they would do a full 5 days a week of preschool by default as childcare does a preschool program. In all the other states their equivalent of Kindergarten is Prep and preschool is kinder.
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Lu generally can entertain herself for a few hours now. I do change the scenery a bit, go for a walk or play in the garden, by that, i mean i swing in the hammock and she paints a mural on the concrete (or her sister), or rips my seedlings out, or rides her bike! No Kindy here. If i was in Aus i would send her though, she is well and truly ready.
sounds like he needs a mowhawk!
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