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TO MOTHERS: For those with babies around one year of age. How much time do you spend w/baby?

What I am asking is how much time on walks, reading, playing in the house, projects, talking, playgroups etc. If you can specify how much and often of each. How much time does dad do this. Thanks

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Whatever you feel is right. But don't leave your kid alone all the time. They do need time to play alone, but most of the time they want interaction with you. Doing whatever you want. There is no specified time for any activity. Babies are all different, thats why they don't come with manuels. Get an activity book and try some of the activities in there for one year olds.

  • 2 decades ago

    I have a 3yr old, a 2 yr old, and a 1yr old. I am a stay at homemom running a mobile home park out of the house, so i can get pretty busy. I take the kids for a walk every night after dinner, usually about an hour, most of the day my son is running around the mobile home park with his dad fixing things. My younger two like to play by themselves. I try to take them outside and play outside. We are together all of the time but sometimes they just want to be left alone.

    Source(s): my 3 kids
  • 2 decades ago

    i'm in the privilege position of being a stay at home mum. my routine is worked around my 11 month old daughter. we usually do the activity groups, mums and tots etc in the mornings she sleeps around noon for an hour that when i clean and prep lunch etc, the afternoon we spend together wether its at home or out and about, the park feeding the ducks or what ever, when daddy comes home hes does the bath and sleep routine while i do dinner and more cleaning, at weekends it an even share. all though i do get my ly ins and breakfast in bed on a sunday...

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    My husband barely spends anytime with him. He never spends any alone time with him. I say I am with him 60%, babysitter is 35% and the other 5% is grandparents. I think the men are afraid of this age. But my husband never wakes up with him or even gives him a bath. It is a shame but I do the majority of the work. I hope this helped.

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  • 2 decades ago

    my daughter is 11 months and i am a stay at home mom. we try to walk every morning for at least 30 minutes, but it is getting hot so that is diminishing. we read a lot. she is getting to that age where she knows what books she likes so we read and re-read lots of books for probably a total of 1 hour a day. we play around the house all day. eating, grazing, playing with the dogs, swinging outside, playing in the yard and all that for the majority of the day. daddy comes home and takes her outside to the garden and waters plants, gives her a bath, does a night time feeding and plays peek-a-boo. that is our day! good times all around!

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    4 years ago

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  • 2 decades ago

    In the morning after I get the other kids off to school I get a little bit of house work done before my little guy wakes up. once he wakes up we start with a bath and play with bath tub letters and toys, and sing then I get him dressed he eats and watches Clifford, then its I get his paints out that doesn't take to long because he starts to eat the paint and shake the bottles (paint goes everywhere) clean up time then we play with this sheet like a parachute I flip it up in the air and shake it while his kiddy music is on. then we go out and do dishes together well I do the dishes and give him a scrub brush and he helps : ) after dishes, he plays in his riding car and I get the vacuums out I set his and mine up he "vacuums" the living room and I vacuum the kitchen and so on, then we run down and throw a load into the washer and come back up and play with his cars, after that its time for lunch, and he watches the doodle bops, after that we go for a walk or we go to the store to pick up some things for dinner by the time we get home its 2:00 and time for his nap he nurses a bit gets a bottle and then takes a nap. then I have time to run to the basement and throw another load of laundry in and start dinner, then when the kids come home from school and I sit down to play free cell on the computer my toddler wakes from his nap, I ask one of the older kids to go get him and the response I get is " Come on can't you I'm really tired" lol!

  • 2 decades ago

    i have 3 1 4 year old that gos to nurseries 1 2year old and 1 7 month old from 7 o'clock in the morning i clean wash feed then at about 845 we take the 4 year old to school then i play clean cook and go to the park with my 2 year old and 7 month play till it is time to get the 4 year old from school then feed play clean till 630 then bath them and then thy go to bed at 7o'clock till the next day..........so it all depends on how you want your kids to grow up people think that i am a snob with the way i bring up my kids....so eash to there own

  • manda
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    well on average i'd spend at least 4 hours playing not that i ignore my children but i do, do laundry, cooking, cleaning, eat, change diapers. Umm their father spends like 2 hours of play with them, he works.

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