I do sometimes. We've been in his playroom for a couple hours and built several racetracks and he's made me coffee, a bowl of lettuce, and eggs in his play kitchen, we've jumped on the trampoline, colored, etc. and I'm going stir crazy! Lol I don't like staying home all weekend.
Do you ever get bored?
papaya / 10570 posts
Oh god, yes. E's favourite game is "tea parties" and then we have to pretend to have hiccups. Its cute for ten minutes and then mind numbing. But, oh, what's that? Oh, more tea? Yes please..... and on it goes. 
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
Uh, yes. DS has, at long last, decided he likes having books read to him, which is wonderful, but he's been particularly obsessed with this big, thick baby words book. Its long, its boring, and its just pictures of objects that you name over and over and over and he wants you to go over it with him 3-4 times every time. We sorta hide it beneath his big stack of books and he always flings all the books aside until he can find it and then he's like YESSSS LET'S DO THIS!!
He's not verbal yet, so I know we have to keep at it, its just soooo mind-numbing and keeping an animated voice for that long is hard when you're tired. I'm 32 weeks pregnant and crabby.
grapefruit / 4079 posts
All the time. My head can't stop thinking of the 500 million things I need to do while we play.
pea / 23 posts
I am horrible at playing with my boys. I can hardly sit still long enough to play anything. Thankfully, DH excels in this area!
persimmon / 1467 posts
Absolutely. I've already mastered the skills he's working on, so I figure it is OK to be bored. I try to direct him towards games and actives that I actually like to do...
pomegranate / 3845 posts
@brownepiano: lol I do that too, which is why we have 150 magnatiles 
I love me some magnatiles!
pomelo / 5093 posts
Oh yeah, I don't really 'play' with my kids. We do active things together, we hang out and snuggle, I take part in her imaginative play - but I do not really sit down and build trains with her. It isn't fun for me. So I find other ways to engage, and then I make the space and time for them to play, and we're all quite happy.
pomegranate / 3845 posts
@sarac: I'm super excited about having a second with the hope that they'll eventually entertain each other to some degree!
pomelo / 5607 posts
LO is only 8mo, but right now she loves to play alone. I'm hopeful this will continue so I don't have to feel guilty when I get too bored to handle playing with her. As a nanny I got super bored sometimes, so I know it'll happen. My mom says when I was little I would tell her to go away if she tried to play with me (I don't remember this, but I continued to prefer playing alone for most of my life, so not surprised), and maybe LO will be the same. Not sure how that'll play out if we have a second though!
cherry / 229 posts
For a long time I wasn't sure I should have kids for this reason. I worked in a daycare center in high school and would get sooo bored after a few hours. Not everyone is like this, my mom has always worked with kids and I think she genuinely never gets bored, so I used to think that was the norm. I still think I wouldn't be happy as a SAHM for this reason, but the older I get the more tolerance I have for a lot of stuff in life that I generally like being pretty boring, pretty often 
grapefruit / 4649 posts
I pretty much hate pretend play. It is mind numbingly boring to me. She's still a little young for most of it though and the little bit she does doesn't involve me. I will happily pull out craft supplies and do super messy projects when faced with hours of pretending to enjoy monkey soup... I have even taken to turning on YouTube clips for myself to improve my painting ability, I figure it probably isn't bad for her either!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Uh yeah. I think of all the things I need to be doing around the house. I LOVE taking my boys to activities, exploring, and stuff outside the house. But indoor pretend play, building stuff, and playing cars? I can only do it in small doses.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
I never really get bored with my 3 year old, I love hearing her stories and playing, coloring, pretend play, etc. What I do get bored with is entertaining a non mobile, not speaking baby...I can only entertain DS(6 months) for about 10 minutes before getting bored...
apricot / 486 posts
I am so thankful that my 8 month old likes to play alone, because I have never been one to be able to sit and play with a child for hours. I usually have Netflix playing in the background while I watch her play or do other things that I need to get done around the house. I don't know what I'm going to do once she wants to interact with me more. Does that make me a bad parent? Haha. I'm happy to be a SAHM for the first year or so, but after that, I don't think I'll be able to handle it!
pomegranate / 3127 posts
Of course. Nothing wrong with it, an adult can only enjoy so much child's play. If I find myself getting really bored, I try to redirect to a game I also like, or get the kids involved in chores. And if I'm really tapped out, it's screen time!
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