To feel like a bad mum because I find it hard to role play with DS?

[PollyPeppa]

DS often begs me to play with him. He loves role play games and I seem to have lost the ability to play since becoming an adult!!! I read to him, we go places & play other kind sof games but these are his favourites and I feel like a bad mum because I find it so hard and get so bored playing them ... DH on the other hand is a whizz at voices and imaginative play which makes me look even worse!!! AIBU?

[youarekidding]

YANBU. I'm crap at role play and don't enjoy it and therefore would probably spoil for for DS.

Hasn't done him any harm he's great at role play - in fact he lives in fantasy land.

[budgieshell]

I loved the role play but the DD's didn't like me joining in, they would wonder off and leave me playing on my own. Felt like I was rubbish because I put them off. Watched a lot of childrens telly on my own too because they would go and play.

He loves you very much if he wants you to play with him. Doctors is good because you can lie on the bed and be bandaged, just groan every now and then like your in pain easy.

[ChippingIn]

Beamur - my Mum hates any kind of role play. When I was little she'd do things for me to help me play and probably had the odd rank cup of tea (she would let me use water/milk/ribenna etc in my tea set ) but that was about it. However, as a Nana she spends a lot of time role playing She is well wound around some small fingers!!

[Beamur]

ChippingIn thats sounds so familiar - I remember my Mum being fun but I can't remember her doing this kind of play with me, that was what friends/neighbours/cousins were for, but she will play endless games of shop/zoo/vet/doctors with DD

[ChippingIn]

Beamur - my niece has my Mum playing the same princess game again & again & again and she's a bossy little wench who will tell Mum off and make her do it again 'the right way nana if Mum gets one word wrong I tell Mum to Nan-up and tell her when she's had enough - but will she hell