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[quote=Anonymous]You don’t have to do all that stuff with your kids jeez. If my kid was like “let’s bake a cake for Chase from Paw Patrol” I’d just tell him no. Or better yet, “yes please make a cake for him; here’s all your plastic food and your play kitchen! Then get your stuffies from your room for the birthday party!” I think you’re doing too much and spread too thin. I have 2 boys, here is what I would concretely suggest:

- an indoor trampoline for them to jump on all winter long. The regular Little Tikes one that’s sold everywhere goes up to something like 100 lbs? So he’s not going to outgrow it anytime soon. 
- building toys, little boys love those. Get him STARTED with Duplos or MagnaTiles and then say “I have to do whatever, I will come check on you in a bit!” 
Basically you have to GRADUALLY change the expectations to have your kid do more solo play and not depend on you as much for entertainment. You will also find that this starts to happen naturally over time but you can start now. 
- have another kid over that he likes and they can entertain each other for awhile. This is risky but can work out really well if they only need light supervision. 
- don’t even feel the littlest bit guilty for iPad time while you wax your legs or whatever. Get ABC Mouse, it’s good for that age and the kids really like it and they do learn from it. 
- sign him up for more stuff (if budget allows). Swim at 4 isn’t “parent and me” anymore so you can just get him ready and he does it alone with the instructor. There are soccer skills type classes for that age range too and in a year or two he can join a rec team. I’ve seen kids music classes in Fairfax County’s Parktakes classes. All good stuff for a kid with a lot of energy. 
- also it sounds like you only have one kid? Again, sign him up for weekend stuff and have you and your husband split up who takes him. Related to that, just get him out of the house in general. Go to the zoo, to the trampoline park, the indoor play rooms, easy hikes, museums, day trips. That way he’s not bugging you to entertain him at home. I don’t love the “pretend play” phase either, but I like taking my kids places. This is just a me thing because I grew up without a lot of extra money in my family and in a small town without a lot of the amenities we have here. So it’s been really positive for me to experience all that stuff with my kid. [/quote]

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