Speaking of parents, is the endless tasks - feeding, bathing, diapering, dressing - the list goes on. Therefore, when it's time to start and play on the floor, who can blame the mother if she was too tired to promote the matchbox car for about two hours?

Other mothers, it is. At the very least, this is my friend said Jenelle. Jenelle and her son James, is in our public libraries in the pressure of the other parent to give up her Jenelle Journal of Legos and a puppet.

"James is playing this woman and her son, as well as all the women, 'Oh, you can see, he wants to play with", Jenelle said. "I just smiled and continued reading, but she said that 3 or 4 times, until the last, I think I have to play with him. I totally annoyed, because this is why we go to the library, so he can play with other children - not me! I am not a play on the floor of her mother. "

An informal opinion poll of my friends, more than half of us - including myself - is less than enthusiastic about playing for our children. Geez, I cringe even as I write these things. write that. Playing with your kids shouldn't feel like work, but for many of us, it does, and we definitely feel guilty about it.

"I feel enormous pressure and guilt that play, my kids said," Mississippi Mama Megan Jordan, 32. "I remember that I am pregnant with their second and read an article and then the parents how to play. At that time, I am still very 22.81 a mother and think that this is a little sad, but it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think it just has a better than I began to have difficulty with the dialogue of action, a plan has been assigned to the moment. "

Jordan is a busy mother of two boys, aged 4 and 2, she is looking forward to her third child. Velveteen Mind author and editor of the magazine BlogNosh, she said that she did not play her children every day: "I always thought I would, which makes me feel incredibly guilty. On the contrary, I may [actually] They play every day. at other times, they are basically playing around, I, and I write or manage other tasks. I'm always with them, but not always tuned in. "

Jennifer is a pediatrician and mother of four children, who also set up a day to play this way, the company is committed to strengthening the interaction between parents and children to play. Carter said that parents have to stop exerting pressure, its own ideals and playmates of all time, every day. Relax and enjoy time playing with your child, whether it is five minutes or two hours.

"Parents can be the pressure and the responsibility of the parents are great," Carter pointed out. "There are tremendous benefits to interactive, structured and free play. However, the most important thing is that children and parents to enjoy these special times together. One day, this may be 10 minutes, 12 hours a day, not all in one day. That's OK. "

Play become more complex, because children grow up, she said, young children and parents of preschool children can exhaust their imagination. This is a very good time, to promote independent play, Carter's proposal. And certainly there has been a period of time to play a pirate, but you can take time for coffee and a magazine, also.

This is good news, Jordan, says that she has a 20-minute limit. "If you can see me now, you will be embarrassed how much I flinch, I admit, I can put up with the play of the floor is usually not more than 20 minutes," she said. "Play car is the best choice for me, but I am still 20 minutes and hit the wall."

20 minutes, and sometimes feel that this is a long to me, was the temptation of dirty clothes and the United Nations to meet the deadline drowns the ability to simulate my rainbow frog disguised as a fairy or prince. However, I do so, I floor, where the introduction of a baby ball, or play a big Barbie girl - I do not know when it started to feel more like work to play.