I'm about to get made redundant and DH and I have decided that I will stay at home and look after our DS (3) whilst we TTC no2. When DS was born I took 12 months mat leave but have since worked full time with DS attending nursery. At weekends/holidays we pretty much do what DS wants and he gets constant undivided attention from one or both of us (call it working parent guilt or just wanting to spend every precious moment with him). He has never had to entertain himself/play by himself, we do lots of activities with him and he never even watches tv by himself, one of us is always there.
Now I realise that when I will be with him all day, every day, I won't be able to entertain him constantly as I will have to get all the household chores/shopping etc done, as well as look after DC2 when they (hopefully) come along. At the moment we have a lot of help (cleaner, gardener etc) and I do most shopping online or during my lunch break at work, but due to financial reasons when I stop working (outside home) I would have to pretty much look after the house myself with DH helping where he can but he works very long hours and often travels for work so most of the work would fall on me.
This may seem like a stupid question but what do other SAHMs do with their toddlers when you can't entertain them? How do you keep them occupied? Should my DS be able to entertain himself at 3? Any useful advice to a new SAHM?
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MrsMarcus · 06/02/2013 16:21
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