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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very high maintenance only child (we couldn't have anymore due to secondary infertility).  My daughter just turned 5 and in Pre-K.  She will rarely play by herself, constantly complains of being bored, and always wants to play with a friend or parent.  She has an amazing playroom full of toys, but unless one of us is sitting in there with her she won't play.  She also wants to be wherever we are all the time.  It's tough because we don't have any local family and our neighborhood doesn't have many kids, but she is in full-day preschool (9-3) and then she is in a lot of extra-curriculars to give her the extra social time she wants.  We also try to do a playdate at least once a week, but it's hard because I'm always the one arranging them and right now play dates are not drop off yet.

I work during preschool hours so in the evenings/on weekends I do have things to do around the house.  I usually try to play a couple boardgames for 30 min. to 45 min. and then tell her I have to start the laundry and do my own chores for another 30 min. then back to the playroom to play dolls for a few minutes, then I go do dishes, etc.  This seems to work pretty well.  I will say that she probably watches more TV than other kids because of her unwillingness to play independently and when my husband and I have these to get done around the house.[/quote]

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