Baby Boredom
Before Bea was born, the concept of baby-boredom seemed ridiculous to me. Surely the simplest things would entertain babies, how could they possibly get bored of toys? Of course, as soon as Bea was old enough to focus on objects, I quickly realized that baby boredom can happen. I’m making it sounds like a disease - ‘Watch out or your child could pick up….BABY BOREDOM!’
It’s not that bad, but it is frustrating when a toy that has worked for weeks at keeping them entertained, suddenly seems to them to be the lamest thing ever invented. This is especially frustrating when you’ve spent MONEY on it. Babies and infants can get bored of toys but don’t throw them away! If it’s a toy that obviously still has hidden depths that your child can discover at an older age, just put in the cupboard. Also try rotating toys on a bi-weekly basis, or even longer for older infants. This often works like a charm for two reason: a) they don’t even remember it to begin with and think they got a new toy and/or b) they might remember it and also recall how much fun they had and jump right in playing with it.
baby boredom, baby toys, toy rotation
June 26th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
My almost two year old does that from time to time. She will love a toy one day and then completely ignore it the next. She has so many toys that she can do that though, which thankfully I have not had to purchase all these toys because she has grandparents and aunts and uncles that all spoil her especially since she is the youngest. But I have bought the bulk of the toys and it does get frustrating but a week or so later she will play with it again so I don’t worry too much and after all our kids will outgrow them some day and we will be left with buckets of toys in our garages that we can’t bear to part with as they drive off to college. Just like our parents did hehe