To want to hug the person who invented Hide and Seek?

[MirandaJuly]

I can get the housework done whilst I 'seek'... i.e picking things up that are laying around etc

And if I can find a really good spot,I can be on Mumsnet for minutes!

So bloody grateful today

Haha I was thinking this today as I took as long as humanly possible to count to ten.

Although my son is only two and so his hiding involves either telling me where he's going to hide, lying on the floor covering his face, or jumping out if he isn't in the first place I look, so it doesn't last long!

Dd is 9 and has become worryingly good at hiding - caused a minor panic recently! When younger it was my favourite game...

I used to love playing that with my kids. Their loud giggling always gave them away

Well, that and the fact they always hid in the same places

Ha! Not just me who finds a great hiding place and takes my phone then 🤣

YABU.
The last game of hide and seek at our house resulted in my DS friend (9) standing on delicate collectables I had just inherited from my grandparents and stored in a box in the bottom of my wardrobe.
It is the last time I ever allow hide and seek in my home again (or the rude friend who thought nothing of going in my room.)

Sorry for ruining the tone of the thread

God no! Hide and seek is so repetitive and tedious, I have to pretend to look in all the same places while he giggles very obviously from the same place he's badly hidden in the last 360 times.
It was cute for a while but my patience is wearing thin.

Our house is tiny and we have no garden so even when he's older, it will be a bit shit.

I'm a nanny and we play hide and seek whenever I've run out of time to do things. I worked out long ago that children have no sense of where your voice comes from. I can potter in the kitchen for ages as long as I occasionally shout out "I wonder if they're behind the curtain!" They have no idea if I'm in the kitchen, the playroom or the bedroom. It's fab

YABU I’m afraid because Sleeping Lions is the best game ever invented!

Admittedly, it’s probably harder to get as much mileage out of it with just one or two kids (I do it with the Brownies so 20+ of them!) but if you can “not see” them wriggling and giggling for a bit you could still get a few minutes of relative peace

We used to play "hide and don't seek". At least that's what I told them we were going to play!

It's not as good as playing hospitals.

Oh yes, I'll be the patient. Just let me lie down on this couch, you go and collect your doctor's kit, I need to rest

It's taught me how to count really, really slowly.

Had this exact thought earlier today with my 2yo! I hid behind the sofa with my phone and got a good few minutes before the dog found me and ratted me out.

You all seem to have much more relaxed hide and seek!
I get very specific commands from the hiding one if I try to skive and look at my phone or have a rest for a second. Even if I look in the wrong order, I get, "Mummy look behind the door. Mummy look under the cushion now. Mummy say, where's DS?..." 🙄

Nope - dd is exceptionally good at it. She can squeeze into impossible places and remain absolutely silent until I panic. It really is not good for my mental health.

My 4 year old plays hide and seek with herself...

"1...2...3 ready or not here I come, oh found you, my turn to count again"

It is ridiculously cute

On my ‘hug list’ is the person who invented edit/undo on the pc and the post it note.

My ‘punch on the nose’ list includes the person who unleashed Velcro on the world.

This is how my kids learned fractions... 9 and 7/8s.....

7/8ths!

I found such a good hiding place once the kids got bored and found something else to do it’s quite sad hiding whilst no one is looking for you... In hindsight I wish I’d thought to take my phone or a book...