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[quote=Anonymous]I live in DC and to be honest, what I see most often is this:

- Nannies supervising kids (but not playing with them)
- A handful of parents taking work calls while their kids play, sometimes alone, sometimes together

I only see parents with kids at playgrounds on the weekends, and then I rarely see the parents playing -- they either talk to each other or scroll their phones.

I work part-time and take my kid to the playground after camp or school 3-4 days a week. I will play with her if she asks, which she might if there are no other kids there or if there are no kids within her age range (or if all the other kids are boys -- she will play 1:1 with a boy but does not feel comfortable playing with a group of boys). Otherwise she usually finds a new friend or two and I will read or look at my phone while she plays, or on occasion talk to other parents if they are friendly (they usually aren't!).

During Covid I played with my kid a lot because it's like kids weren't allowed to play together (I would have been fine with it but the ethos of our neighborhood was that no one was supposed to interact, it was sad). But she was 3, I might have played with her anyway at that age, it's a hard age because they often need help with playground equipment and their social skills are super rudimentary.[/quote]

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