do your kids play with each other? do they often need your assistance like with fighting or just want you to play with them or do they pretty much play by themselves because they have a playmate?
I find it so hard having just one child cause she gets bored so much and always needs my attention but being a single mom as im sure you all can relate i have to do laundry, dishes, make dinner, make her lunch for the next day help with homework give her a bath I have no time to sit around and play and to top it all off i have my own homework to do so when she is constantly whining about being bored and needing my attention i start to think maybe i should have had another kid so she wouldnt be so lonely
I have 4 girls. Sometimes they play together wonderfully and other times you'd think there was a warzone in my house. My kids have also play very well independently, though. My 4 year old spent the majority of the day today playing by herself (unless you count the cats she talks to and totes around from room to room) I'd say I spent 2 hours the entire day playing with her. The rest of the time she was drawing pictures, playing with playdough and making stuff up.
I don't think my kids are the norm, though. I've looked after other people's kids and they seem to need CONSTAST attention, even if they're siblings.
My oldest is 7 and my youngest is 2 months. Right now, I just neversleep.
My kids are 2 years apart. My son is 8 and my DD is 6. They play together but I am constantly breaking up fights. They both want one on one play time almost everyday and then they want to do things together. My dd is great at playing by herself. She enjoys it and loves to color/ do art work. My son needs a constant companion. It is harder to have two in my opinion bc you have to split the limited amount of time you have between both of them.
didn't see this coming
- MsLogansMommy
on Feb. 1, 2013 at 10:43 PM