Activities for toddlers?

[MujahidAishah]

you wouldnt sister, the boy is handful. you heard him yelling . he beats girls. tan yar horta is his ball. he pushes her to the floor, even if she sleeping he wakes her up to beat her.

he speaks "fas7ah= tradition arabic" cause he watches all cartoons on his ipad. when i yell at him he sais " lemaatha ya akhi al kabeer, matha fa'alt, taban lak"

he makes me laugh tho. i hope as grow he will calm down. can o teen ager noqdey loma adkeysan karo.

Inanta ka reeb hey ka ani ii dhiib waan ka shaqayen laha hey why inanta uu dilaya

[Susu000]

My boys have a room with all the toys they need, after nursery they spend time there watching cartoons and building different stuff. My husband takes the oldest one swimming every weekend. It's good for them

[Hyperactive]

Aisha, he is a bully. dadki o idil bo dibay. my mom beats him but i always protects him. horta why haweenka like to beat kids!!

[Rambie]

he speaks "fas7ah= tradition arabic" cause he watches all cartoons on his ipad. when i yell at him he sais " lemaatha ya akhi al kabeer, matha fa'alt,taban lak"

How old is he? He must be a FOB.

[Hyperactive]

lol he is 4 years old. he just started this school year juniour kiddengarden.

he spent loads of time on his ipad with spongebob.

[MujahidAishah]

Aisha, he is a bully. dadki o idil bo dibay. my mom beats him but i always protects him. horta why haweenka like to beat kids!!

Because inanta laga reebeya let hoyo beat him see how he likes it. The three are Mashallah they are cute illhay ha nii daayo

[Hyperactive]

thank you ina abti and Allah protects yours too. Ameen.

[Gaashaanle1000]

Kudos to you for being hands-on father.
Evidence tells us that a person’s life success is linked to having stimulating early childhood. Caring, loving and supportive environments filled with lots of resources increase children’s chances of a successful transition to school.
When choosing activities, do not use them as tools to keep them busy. Make sure to cover all the developmental domains such as motor/physical, cognitive, social/emotional, communication/language. Provide plenty of resources and observe your child in their natural environment and see what they do with the resources in front of them. From this observation you can draw a conclusion of what they enjoy playing with the most.

Examples
Fine Motor Skills: Blocks. Maybe you can start off by building the blocks first and direct your child to do the same thing. This activity enhances child’s fine motor skills by using their hand and eye coordination to put the blocks together.

Gross motor: Dancing. Play fast music and instruct your child to jump around, shake their body and put their arms up in the air. This is not maalaayacni, dancing has great values. Having fun while improving and working on their gross motor skills by using large muscles of their body.

Communication: Sing a song. It could any nursery rhymes for example “if you happy and you know clap your hands”. This activity will encourage children to express their feelings, communicating through a song (it also covers emotional/ facial expressions).

Creativity: Sand play. If you live in a house that has backyard try setting up a little sand play area with equipment’s such as trucks, buckets, cups and funnels. This self-directed and individual play allows children to use their own imagination to create something using own ideas/thoughts. You can also try play dough, puzzles of ABC and 123, painting and reading a story to her.

Now to disciplining, you need to show authority by avoiding coming down to her level when speaking to her in a loud and clear tone. Do not repeat yourself and avoid giving her extra attention. You can also write up flash cards of the house rules and the consequences for breaking each rule.

Thanks for the great input walaal, all great suggestions there, we do have building blocks, but she gets bored of those pretty quickly, maybe I need to build something impressive from the blocks she can work towards doing herself. The sand play thing seems interesting, just thinking if I can deal with the mess she will inevitably make in the garden if a sand dune is introduced .

As for songs, we try to teach her as much Somali as possible, such as alif la kordhabay and other similar songs. We actually only speak Somali at home and she still cannot speak fluent English even though she tries. It's quite hilarious watching her speak to non Somali adults in Somali and broken English. She often says "Hello, Hello, ma ficantahay" as if she's speaking to a baby followed by general toddler jibber jabber.

Flash cards for discipline, this one will be great when they are older