Toddler Schedule Ideas

Hello hello my loves, how is everyone holding out right now? These are definitely strange times we're living in. Even though I'm a stay-at-home mom and am quite used to social distancing already (unfortunately) it definitely feels different lately. If I had to sum it up in one word, it'd be weird. Nothing feels normal.

With that said, many of y'all are struggling to cope with your new "normal" with a busy toddler at home (or more than one) who used to go to daycare. I feel for you. Adjusting can be hard, both for you and for them.

One of the biggest requested I've gotten lately is for children's activities. 

Your toddlers are busy bodies and restless. Your older children are bored. Being stuck at home is challenging.

While I am working on compiling a list of activities, for varying ages, I myself only have children 6 and under, so the suggestions for older children might be more sparse, just warning y'all ahead of time.

But before I get to activities, I thought I would share some schedule ideas for your littles.

Now don't get me wrong- I am no pro at this. Some might say I'll downright awful is this department. While the kids are some of the least "scheduled", they definitely do have somewhat of a schedule. But the point is, you can have all of the fun activity ideas out there and they won't do you any good if you have no idea when in the day you will do them or which day. Your life will quickly become chaotic without a schedule.

I did not write my own schedules out, but I did a bit of digging and found several other moms out there who have already done so, and I've gathered some of the best for y'all here. I have screenshoted some of their key notes, and then tagged them accordingly and linked to their own blogs should you want to read more.

The key to picking a schedule is finding one that easily meshes with your own life and tendencies. None of it should be forced or day-vs-night different.

Hopefully you'll find something here thats helpful. ❤

Here's a sample schedule from Melissa at A Virtuous Woman Blog

https://avirtuouswoman.org/daily-toddler-schedule/

and an excerpt from helping moms trouble-shoot...

She has some really great ideas and sound advice!

Here's the beginning of a schedule idea from Llasuer at https://everydayabovedirt.com/toddler-schedule/

Its very nicely detailed to really help with that foggy #mombrain 👏

Also, her post 

https://everydayabovedirt.com/learning-through-play/ 

Is a worthy read!

Here's a schedule for a toddler & an infant from Rachel at http://www.candokiddo.com/news/daily-schedule-baby-toddler

She goes into more detail in her post, so if you need a cohesive schedule for both ages, be sure to check it out.

Other necessary reads...

▪ https://thesaltymamas.com/toddler-daily-schedule/

▪ https://mommyenlightened.com/toddler-schedule/

▪ https://amotherfarfromhome.com/sample-daily-schedule-for-toddlers/

▪ https://www.parents.com/toddlers-preschoolers/development/social/toddler-routines-schedules/

▪ https://busytoddler.com/2018/06/daily-routine-toddlers/

▪ https://themilitarywifeandmom.com/5-sample-daily-toddler-schedule-from-real-moms/

I hope you find these resources helpful for figuring out a schedule for your littles while you're all doing your part & staying at home! 

XO, The Brunette 💋