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[quote=Anonymous]It’s too bad OP used the word “play,” because everyone is getting hung up on that. Her husband wants to contain their child so he doesn’t have to do anything with her. He doesn’t want to engage with her. He doesn’t want to have to watch her every move. He wants to watch her like you watch fish in a fish tank. This is a two year old with no siblings. You’re only going to get so much independent play out of her.

My dad didn’t play a lot of pretend with me, but he pretended to order food from my play kitchen and eat it. He was happy to include me in whatever he did. If he washed the car, I “helped.” If he was raking leaves, I was playing in them. If he went to the hardware store, I did too. If he grilled hamburgers, I was his assistant. He had a buddy seat on the back of his bike and we’d ride around. He also played a lot of silly physical games with me. He’d stand on his head and then he’d hold up my legs so I could do it too. He’d lay down on his back on the floor and help me balance while sitting on the soles of his feet and he’d lift me up. He was from the Silent Generation and this was in the mid-seventies, so it’s not new.[/quote]

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