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I currently see my daughter 4 hours a week (due to be increased at next court hearing) in a play center. However the play center is not suitable for my daughter (11 months old)., I have spoken to my ex but she is unwilling to change the venue. We have been visiting this center for nearly 3 months now and my daughter is starting to get bored of the same toys. I too am running out of ideas/activities we can do. Does anyone have any fun ideas that they have used in similar situations?
To keep a baby of 11 months old occupied isn't easy when not in the home environment!
Perhaps you could take some bubbles, children do love bubbles...you can buy a gun that shoots them out in rapid succession, my grandson loves his, I bought it in Argos for under a fiver.
have gone out and purchased one, then saw this - great minds think alike!
Guess what i'm buying next week ?? Thanks for the ideas guys......
I hope you manage to get out of the CC asap buddy, 🙂
Thank you,
haven't had a chance to use it yet as ex had been stopping contact up until Saturday just gone and I forgot I had bought it.
Also CC should be over soon as cafcass have said supervised contact is not required in my case 🙂 Hope things are working out for you