Reply to Parents playing with their kids at playgrounds

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Parents playing with their kids at playgrounds "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids do both with occasionally. They'll ask to play tag or the ground is lava. If they ask us to join, why should we say no?.... Just because you don't want to engage with your child at the playground? Some days we spend 2 hours at the playground, go home shower and go to bed. So if we didn't engage with them there we literally would have no interaction with them for the day is that we work long hours....

These threads are wild.... Who would have thought people would complain about parents actually parenting their children?. [/quote]

Parenting is also letting your children learn how to play independently. I am going to assume that your kids are in daycare/aftercare/camp and are at least learning independent play and how to play with other children in those settings? Because the worst are nanny kids who don't know how to interact with other children.

*Before you call me an SAHM, I'm not, I work full-time and my kids are in camp right now.[/quote]

And why do you care?[/quote]

Because I'd prefer my kids not have to deal with adults who don't know how to function independently when they grow up.[/quote]

That's the next level of helicoptering. I'd rather you play with your kids than control mine. [/quote]

I think you're missing the point. Let your kids learn how to play with stranger kids (of course keep an eye on them, I'm not advocating for scrolling through your phone and not paying for attention). It will help them when they're older and their parents aren't there to facilitate friendships for them.

I have nieces and nephews that are young adults - this is a real issue.[/quote]

So when your mind, a parent who plays with their child on a playground for 20 minutes is somehow preventing their child from ever being able to socialize with anyone in the history of their entire life.  You don't know if this child was a daycare for 8 hours and I was enjoying some time with their parent.... You don't know if this child just got to see their dad who's been away on business and is having fun with him...... You don't know if the parents share custody and this is the parents way of bonding when they have time with the child....

How about you? Do you and let other people do them?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics