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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  I have always had pretty broad range to take my charges whereever.  If it’s something outside our normal routine, I run it past the parents but we have a solid rotation of places we usually go (obviously cut way, way back right now).

I do think that by 2.5 kids benefit from variety.  When my charges were barely 1 (twins), we went to a fall festival and they experienced a bunch of new things—petting farm animals, a hay ride, and the pumpkin we brought home with us.  They loved it and it really sparked something for both of them.  I supported their interest by reading them books about farms and animals, carving the pumpkins together, toasting the seeds and making pumpkin pie from one and jack o’lantern from the other.  On my list of their first 20 words, there are a lot of words linked to that outing (pumpkin, sheep, chicken, and TRACTOR, which became an obsession for the next year of their lives.

I don’t do a big outing every day, but I try to do 3 little outings (neighborhood park), one medium outing (slightly further-away park), and one BIG outing each week.

Our big outings in the last month or so have included visiting the Lincoln Memorial (after reading several books about Lincoln/Harriet Tubman/the civil war), and socially distant berry picking (after planting our own garden and afterwards we did lots of different cooking projects with our berries).

It’s just a nice, fun way to expand their horizons.[/quote]

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