https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 23:04:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52336 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:49:54 +0000 Mrs Sorbet 52336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad played with me ALL the time. He was like a big kid himself! My mom didnt play very much, although she would play cards or board games with me every once and a while. I am an only child so sometimes I just wanted someone to play with me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52293 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:12:16 +0000 mynoahbear 52293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents never played with us. My sister and I would hang out and play together all the time but never with my parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52247 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:33:37 +0000 heffalump 52247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom played with me. But I also had an older brother and sister so I never lacked for people to play with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52227 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:59:50 +0000 BoogieBea 52227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents never had time to play with us. Even when I was the only child for the first 3.5 years of my life, I don't recall my parents playing with me. In fact, they said I was always content playing on my own. This is so not the case with our kids now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52225 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:53:54 +0000 MrsHotDog 52225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't remember my parents ever playing with me but I am also number three so I don't know how much that influenced our interactions. I'm sure they enjoyed my brother and sister keeping me entertained. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52205 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:18:56 +0000 MegWag 52205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My initial instinct is to say that my parents played with us, but when I think about it, I'm not sure it's true! I have memories of them doing activities with us, but I think for like imaginative play my brother and I were left to our own devices.<br /> We'd put on plays for my parents, which they happily watched. They'd take us to do things and do projects with us, but just playing... I'm not so sure. Interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52188 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:53:35 +0000 Mrs. Bee 52188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nope my parents never played with me. i played outside or with my brother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52184 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:47:30 +0000 CameronsMomma 52184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't really have any memories of my parents playing with me. I played by myself or outside with other kids. I'd help my dad or step-mom around the farm, but nothing about playing is jogging anything! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52177 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:37:49 +0000 Andrea 52177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I barely have any memories of my parents playing with me so I feel like it is a modern invention! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-play-with-you#post-52173 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:33:00 +0000 Maysprout 52173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A post last week got me thinking about parent child interaction. A childhood anthropologist, David Lancy, thinks that parent-child play is a modern invention. This idea struck me as extremely odd. I spent hours and hours writing my thesis during which I watched as a distraction hours and hours of baby animals playing on youtube. Often they were playing with other babies but also adults animals. Also when we fostered puppies, they played most with each other but mom would join in the fun too.</p> <p>I remember wrestling and building lego buildings and tea parties with my parents. The kids played among themselves a lot but parents werent completely excluded. </p>