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[quote=Anonymous]My parents were engaged but not 'fun' in the sense that they believed they needed to keep us entertained.

Sometimes they would play our kid games and I remember those times as they were special.

My dad would do things like roll us up in a rug or a mattress and "sit" on us. Or he would wrestle with us or be a horse and buck us off. Again these things were special and didn't happen often.

My parents did play board games with us and we would do puzzles together. We would go skating and build snow forts and go for explorations in the woods. Most of the time it was more about being together than about being fun.we would bake with my mom and she would give us 'jobs' to do. She took us to museums and the library and to lots of activities.

We didn't have a TV growing up so probably 80% of the time we played independently or with each other (siblings) and 20% of the time we were doing things with my parents.

During the day my mom would read us all the kids books but one thing my dad did was that every night we all got together and he read to us from a classic 'adult' book. He would stop and explain things to us as most of it went over our heads but I remember I loved those nightly readings as  it was like they saw us as adults or grown ups.  I felt so important to be discussing Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery or something similar as a child. It was always a very serious thing, not something you would associate with 'fun' but a really good memory[/quote]

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