6 Weird Tricks to Spending More Time with Your Toddlers (#3 is CRAZY!)

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 3:27 pm by Sarah Elizabeth

6 Weird Tricks to Spending More Time with Your Toddlers (#3 is CRAZY!) 2015-02-06T15:27:37-07:00 Sarah Elizabeth

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In the throes of motherhood, it can be easy to feel that we’re not spending enough time with our littlest ones. Especially when there are school projects and deadlines looming ahead, piles of laundry that may or may not be actually impeding traffic in the hallway, and yes, Virginia, they DO want dinner. (What, again???)

Missing those toddler moments is especially easy if, like me, you are blessed with capable, generous older kiddos who love nothing better than sweeping their little siblings off to play. Especially when one of those school projects/deadlines is looming. So I’d like to share with you some easy tricks to guarantee that you will be spending more time with your toddler. I’ve tried each and every one of these tricks, and I can promise you that they are absolutely foolproof!!!

Ways4

1. Make (or receive) a phone call: Nothing attracts those little ones like trying to have an actual conversation on the phone. (You know, those things where there’s an actual adult on the other end of the line?)

The instant the headset reaches your ear (and sometimes, mysteriously, even before) there will be questions, demands, scraped knees, hunger pangs, and also a desperate need to say hello to whomever you’re speaking to and tell them all about the Lego set that’s being built at that very moment.

Instant quality time!

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