How much time do you spend playing a day?

[jaoler]

Maybe an odd question but -
How much time do you spend playing a day? Like actually, sat down with your child and playing something like cars/dolls (stereotypical toys but you get the ones I mean!)

I have older ones 11&9 they mostly entertain themselves, the odd board game or game on the switch I do with them or craft/baking/science kit.
The toddler is 2.5 and pretty demanding at mo so most of the day I'm doing puzzles, playing tea parties/shops, feeding dolls, building duplo, helping with play doh/sand pit/craft activities etc and baking and reading stories. It's very rare she plays by herself....the older ones play with her sometimes building dens or duplo while I'm cooking. I think if she had a sibling closer in age perhaps she'd be more entertained and less reliant on me... the older ones had each other when they were toddlers!

Mine are 11, 9 and 7, all boys. A couple of nights a month we have boardgame night and a movie night. Its hard because the ages they're at they are more interested in hanging out together abd gaming. I make a point of sitting down with them and talking though, just asking random questions.
Im hardly Mary Poppins but when they were little I would sit on floor and play toys for a couple of hours before lunch, go park or baking!

I have an only who is 5. I can't play small world inventive games I just get it wrong
So I've compromised I will play board games and games with set rules. I will play some inventive game she's created but maybe 30mins and then I'm banging my head against the wall.
We probably 'play' the majority of the day (with school work too) but I do make her play on her own for parts of the day for my sanity and so she doesn't become reliant on me to entertain her.

I have a 2 year old and a 3 year old. Pretty much every waking moment from 6.30 until 5 is spent playing with them, except for an hour when DH takes them for a walk in the woods. Send help

Couple of hours in the morning, couple of hours in the afternoon. Split into chunks so maybe 45 mins of full on attention then I go and get some stuff done and leave them to it. 1 and 3 so they’ve started to play together which is gradually freeing me up. Still need to watch them like hawks though!

Two girls, aged 7&8. I'm required for board games, craft, Lego, baking and reading. Plus food and school work.
However a good few hours a day they are in their own imaginary world where I'm not invited. I believe it is Miss Cackles Academy at the moment.
I'm increasingly surplus to requirements.

My sons four, he’s not too bad at entertaining himself. Generally we play together for about an hour in the morning, this morning I had to do the dreaded “daddy lets pretend” ahhh! Then he entertains himself a bit (trashes the flat, oh well).

After lunch we go out for a few hours, nice long walk then some football etc and a nice long walk home.

When we get home he goes back to trashing everywhere or makes my boyfriend play with him, then after dinner we do hide and seek etc until bath and story time.

DD is 2, at the moment I probably spend a couple hours in the morning and a couple in the evening actively playing with her. She’s quite good at pottering around by herself so long as I’m in the same room and not doing anything too exciting

Not a massive amount tbh. DD is only 14mo but she's always been quite an independent player. As I write this she's just sticking magnets onto the radiator and taking them off again. When she wants me to actually play with her, she brings me things, but she's generally happy amusing herself for quite long chunks of time. Now she's putting her magnets into her toy kitchen microwave and opening and closing the door

We do do a lot of reading together and songs throughout the day, and when we are outside we do a lot together, but actual sitting down and playing, maybe a few blocks of 15 mins a time?

I'm sure she will get more demanding though!