In the fight against boredom - toddlers deal

Basically, children are enough themselves. Your curiosity and creativity actually ensures that boredom never comes up. Nevertheless, there are situations - at the doctor, in the car, on rainy days - in which the little ones have to be employed. Because of the peace and because bored children are just exhausting.

Need delay is difficult for children. If they are sickly, raining outside, or inevitable waiting times arise, they resort to their most effective means of alerting them to their annoyance: they whine, endure, annoy, and end without end. This is not meant evil - concentration and patience are just not so pronounced in infants.

A question of concentration

Concentration is the ability to focus on just one thing and more or less hide the trappings. Children can do that very well, this ability is innate. However, small children can usually focus on one thing only for a very short time, the ability to concentrate develops only with age. Although the ability to fully focus on a matter is individual, the rule of thumb is:

Children from 0 to 3 years are able to concentrate on a task for about 10 minutes before their attention is taken up by something else or they start to get bored.
At the age of 3 to 6 years, 10 to 20 minutes of concentrated employment are the norm.
Children between 6 and 10 can concentrate for half an hour.
If the personal attention limit is reached, you have to change employment or spend some time with the child. Age-appropriate games and regular reading improve the ability to concentrate.

The right game tip for every situation

Your child is sickly, maybe even stay in bed and go outside is not in anyway? Then you have to come up with something. If the state of health allows it, the following movement games provide for a change indoors:

Cuddly toys revolution

Hide all cuddly toys (or even small animals, Playmobil men or magic ponies) of the child in the apartment and tell him a matching story. Maybe the animals were angry because your child has not played with them for so long, maybe they are protesting that they can not sleep in bed anymore. Your child can wander through the apartment with a backpack, a doll carriage or a toy truck and collect the fugitive gang again.

Funny charade for guessing

Children over the age of three generally understand the pantomime principle, and there are also various board games in which mimes are part of the gameplay. Guess what your child represents and let him guess.

What am I?

Dog, cat, mouse, table, chair or bucket - Imagine what you are and answer your child's questions and vice versa from this perspective. This simple game is a fun pastime for kids over three, bridging waiting times and boring restaurant visits.

I can see what you can not see

This well-known game is also very popular with children. It's up to you to choose a color in the room, the other one has to guess which color is meant.

For smaller children between one and three, it takes simple games that are not that overwhelming, but not too boring.

box collection

Boxes and boxes in different sizes and shapes are fascinating for children. Give your child several of them. It can use it to build towers, use them as vehicles or doll beds or hide something in them.

Screw, what the stuff holds

Children like to screw for their lives. With various screw jars made of sheet metal or plastic, this is wonderful practice, even plastic bottles are suitable. Make sure the containers are clean; in small children, the lids should not be too small.

Pouring and pouring

You need a tray, several jars, a small ladle, a funnel, and something that can be poured or poured. Suitable is water, but also peas, rice or sand can be used as bulk material. The tray ensures that the mess is kept within limits.

For decades the evergreen - ironing beads

Hardly a child who can not immerse themselves in it, in kindergarten, the beads even sometimes a plague. On pegboards, which come in different sizes and shapes, different colored beads are put. The work is then melted down with an iron and can be kept or given away as a lasting reminder. Beading has a addictive character to many children and lends itself to keeping them busy for a long time.

Children are easy to get excited and busy. Nevertheless, making and playing is most fun when daddy plays along. Often, a child thus also creates the entry into a longer-lasting employment: They join in the beginning. When your child is fully engrossed in his or her job, you can retire and continue to play alone for a while.

It is important in everything you do, your own enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm usually translates quickly to your child and drives bad mood.