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[quote=Anonymous]I was an only child and I had multiple ways to entertain myself. Find out what your child likes to do - dolls? Playmobil? Legos? Horses? I could play with my dolls and horses for hours, making up stories, reading books about them and then adding those facts to my stories, etc. I had tons of friends and my parents were super involved in my life, but I also had no problem coming up with ways to play alone. I have six-year-old twins now, but they are also able to play alone when they don't want to be together. One of them likes to go to the playroom and play with their toy horses and talk to them. The other prefers to read. In this day and age it's easy to want stimulation ALL THE TIME because that's what's offered - on-demand TV shows whenever you want, iPads with portable entertainment, a zillion apps and games and things that are always available, books you can buy instantly and read without getting up from your couch, etc. Let your daughter be sad. Let her be bored. She needs to figure out how to entertain herself. If she doesn't learn now, she'll be one of those people who is always glued to their phone because they can't NOT be entertained for two seconds.[/quote]
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