because mine don't. I am sitting in a playroom surrounded by the things, trying to remember the last time most of them were played with. Playmobile, lego, other figures and playsets, plastic animals, SF - none of them have been worth the money. I see threads on here or chat with friends about dc playing for 'hours' with various things, and I feel like a failure.
So I really want to ask these parents - how involved do you get? Have you taught your dc to do this? Do you think it helps if they have lots in common - my 2 are very different. What does 'hours' actually mean? I will suggest games but I can't really fake the enthusiasm for playing for long at all - and the less they respond, the sooner I want to stop. So I think it's my fault, but I am an only and my parents never (well, seldom) played with me and I used to amuse myself for hours with far fewer toys than my dc have - and they have each other.
We have had loads of days-out this holiday, a great week away and they have been to ex's parents and done loads there. I also enjoy boardgames with them, jigsaws (they are less keen then me on these) and have bowled endless balls for ds1, so I'm not complaining that we've had no good times. It just grates on me that if we do have the odd quiet day at home, left to their own devices it would be screen, screen screen with ds1 punctuating this with playing cricket and ds2 wandering around doing not a lot of anything.
What have I done wrong?