How old are your children and what are they into?

United States
April 16, 2009 1:01pm CST
I have an 18 month old daughter and she is getting so big these days. She is all about being outside, sliding, and babies. When I drop her off at daycare she goes straight for the babies. She goes and gets the bottles, blankets, and bibs and sits down in a corner and plays by herself with her babies. She loves going outside and swinging on the swing or blowing bubbles. We have a slide inside and she loves to play on it. Why is it though that she is so content on playing by herself instead of with other kids or us? She also loves to clean the house. Everytime we have company come over she gets her wipes out and gets down on her knees and starts washing the floor and they all are like what have yall been doing to this little girl. It gets on my nerves when they say things like that. I can't tell if there joking or not. How should I deal with people like this?
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9 responses
• India
18 Apr 09
Observing activity of children is great thing in itself. Generally children give different types of expression and there every expression is unoque in itself.
@jadegoat (89)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I have a 17 year old daughter...is, and always will be into video games ( she has a mild for of autism that makes socialization very hard on her.) She is however in the college prep classes in high school and getting strait A's and stays out of trouble. I wonder if your daughter has an obsessive compulsive type behavior?? You can't really deal with people, they will just be that way. It's hard on a parent when they just can't really understand their own child's behaviors, trust me I know. I have another daughter who will be 5 on Tuesday, She is into Horses of which we have two minis, any baby animal, and her obsessive desire to have a kitten :) And Last, but not least I have the sweetest little boy who is 4 and is into Trucks, Airplanes, and Mud Holes...LOL P.S. All of my kids are sweet :) God Bless!
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
16 Apr 09
Hi, Wife_n_Mother! Welcome to myLot! I have three kids. My son he is seven and in school. My three year old daughter loves to write and count to 13. She loves to read and look into books. My one year old daughter which is 22 months as of now. She loves to get into everything that she can think of. She loves to play with her siblings. All three of my kids love to watch the Noggin channel. And they all love to walk around in the park.
@Ronina (185)
• Philippines
17 Apr 09
I am a mother of 23 month old little boy. He loves to play with his cousins, he loves to ride his bike going around the house. He knows if there is an airplane flying outside our house because of its sound. He loves to watch TV and listen to nursery rhymes when he wants to sleep at night. He loves to play in the water when he is taking a bath. He knows how to brush his teeth because every time we brush our teeth he is watching and giggling. My son cannot sleep without his blacket and he loves to eat vegetables. He loves flowers, butterfly, teddy bear, and books too.
• United States
17 Apr 09
i have 2 sons aged 2 and 3. My oldest son is all over anyone he can be. He wants them to play ball or cars or just wrestle. my younges who will be 2 in July always played by himself no matter who was around and no matter how much you tried to get him to play. Now in the last 3 weeks he has been wanting to play with his brother and mommy and daddy. I would not worry to much about it wife_n_mother. If the people keep bothering you just look at them and tell them she does what she wants. This is who she is let it be. Your little girl is just fine.
• United States
17 Apr 09
My daughter has just turned 4 and she is very much into the princesses, high heels, dress up and things of that nature. She even goes into my closet and tells me to wear my heels too..mind you, I rarely where high heeled shoes these days especially since I became a mommy. I think children tend to imitate what they see and most just like to be busy..t!he age of exploring, everything is new and exciting to them. My daughter would do the same 'cleaning thing' a couple of years ago. She is an only child and will be (far as I'm concerned lol) but when she was younger I always had wipes and I would wipe down everything and/or rinse things in hot water, mainly because she was so young and would put everything in her mouth. When she got a little older, I noticed she attempted to do the same thing! After a few months in daycare and exposure to hanna montana, disney, and barbie things started to change. I've always been sort of outspoken when it comes to my daughter so my guess is most speak about whatever she does in their presence behind my back lol, I wouldn't concern myself with what friends are saying about what your daughter does with the wipes..I would however, get her involved in some other extracurricular activities - you could go to starfall.com which is an excellent early learning site, do a weekly craft activity with her - you'd be surprised at what comes out of it. But if what others say bothers you - take the direct approach, if anything your little one will learn how to speak her mind when something is bothering her...make every moment a teachable moment and get ready to watch your child soar.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
16 Apr 09
our babies are older, my youngest is 12 and she is all about the environment (green is her favourite colour!) but she is a sweet and caring person and will make a great nurse one day. my oldest is a teenager, she is almost 16 and what she is into right now is singing (she takes vocals at school and is on our church's praise team) and her friends. let her go to it, seriously, when she becomes a teen, she will hate doing housework!!!
@mrsl2008 (634)
16 Apr 09
I have an 11 year old girl & a 14 month old baby girl. The eldest went through a stage of playing on her own and she soon started socialising when she was ready so don't worry about that!! As for the cleaning etc, she is just imitating things she has seen you or daddy or nanny or someone else do. This is also nothing to worry about. Our youngest has just started to mimick everything we do, it's a great learning tool for them. Like putting hands over their mouths when coughing and when they start putting toys away with you. Don't worry about waht anybody else says or thinks, your obviously a good mum as your here showing concern/asking for advice. Good luck & have fun Mrsl x x
@harmonee (1228)
• United States
16 Apr 09
I'm currently pregnant with my first and all he is into is doing Tae Bo on my bladder :) Soon enough he'll be able to develop some more comfortable hobbies.