AIBU to refuse to play "fairy doctors" for the millionth time?

[olivesandolives]

I'm a sahm, picked dd up from pre school and as soon as we get home she asks to play "fairy doctors". We've played this all week and I just can't do it, I offered alternatives, play doh, drawing, bricks, puzzles, anything but bloody fairy doctors! She got quite upset but I held my ground and now she's sulking.

I'm tired, her little brother starts the day at 5am and by Friday afternoon I'm done! I've now stuck the tv on.

She LOVES pretend play, but it is THE most draining game ever!

Don't blame you, to be fair! Mine aren't quite at that stage yet of imaginary play but I have to say I am dreading it

Maybe suggest Princess Dr's and you can play the one who sleeps for 100 years!!

Oh I do sympathise! When DS was small he wanted to play Thomas trains every day after nursery. Every.Day. But I could only be the engine he chose for me, and I could only say/do what he decided was correct. Hours of pain

However, he now very rarely wants me to play with him so in a weird way I miss it!

However, he now very rarely wants me to play with him so in a weird way I miss it!*

Yes this is always in the back of my mind!

My parents had to read me the same book, sometimes several times a day for years and years ("Grandmother Lucy and her hats").
I think they could have both cheerfully burnt that bloody book many times over.
I still have it in pride of place on my bookcase - and I still love it.

I also insisted on playing shops for hours at a time but used to make people start again if they said or did the wrong thing in my imaginary script.

I suspect my DD will enact some appropriate revenge.

That is cute - fairy doctors 😂❤️

My DH always has to play doctors when he got back from work. DD complained that he always had sleeping sickness. It’s worth a try.

YANBU. My son keeps wanting me to play cars with him. My car chat is very limited. As is my interest in car games. I’m so flattered that he keeps asking me, And the day he stops asking I will be devastated. And yet...

I had to play the bathroom door in one of DD2's imaginary games. It was mind numbingly boring and she kept telling me off for doing it wrong.

Sounds like a great game. How do you play it? What are the rules?

Haha, I'm currently sitting on the sofa (on my phone) trying to avoid dd3's game of 'choose the colour'. I have to choose a pencil, she then scans it with her till then she colours a bit of her picture in. Repeat. I can't play it anymore (I also have a 3 month old who is up a zillion times a night and a DP currently working abroad!)

YANBU.

My DDs always wanted to play schools... I'm a teacher.

Yanbu.

I have also resorted to TV after an hour of pretending to eat 'delicious' or 'disgusting' crochet vegetables from the toy kitchen.

Sounds like a great game. How do you play it? What are the rules?

She's a fairy, she'll crash into something and hurt her wing, I have to come and collect her and she's all weak and dramatically poorly, I lie her on the sofa and do the usual checks and give her magic potion and stitch up her wing.

Repeat ad infinitum.

My DDs always wanted to play schools... I'm a teacher

Oh yes we do fairy school aswell. Fairy everything basically.

I'm loving the description of fairy doctors!

You def need to get her to swap roles lol

Mayalready beat me to it. I pretended to be unconscious and let DD draw on my face (with eyeliner) last weekend so I could have a sneaky nap. Winners all round.

DS talks at a million miles an hour about the football game he played at lunchtime, the seven hat tricks he scored, the football card swaps he did, the latest goal on FIFA etc. All that’s required from me is an intelligent-sounding question every minute or so but he does. not. stop.

*22Giraffes

Oh I do sympathise! When DS was small he wanted to play Thomas trains every day after nursery.Every.Day. But I could only be the engine he chose for me, and I could only say/do what he decided was correct. Hours of pain*

Same here with DD, only farms. I had to be a particular animal every time and could only do/say what she told me to. Nearly lost the will to live!! (No one else, like DH or MIL would entertain the idea of playing make believe which also made me v bitter about being typecast as a goat!😂😂)

Op YANBU!!!

In all games you need to be the one one the sofa. That’s where you are wrong!!

My favorite was pirates, I hid the treasure, drew a ridiculously complicated map, then lay on the sofa saying hot or cold

I’m so flattered that he keeps asking me, And the day he stops asking I will be devastated.

You wont be- trust me. Mine used to play B & B. I had to be a guest, she had to show me to my room and then give me a tour of the garden. fifty times a day I planted the sodding garden, I know what it looks like!

Recurring sleeping sickness is great!

@Girlundercover I am sooo using that pirate game.

My son used to do this, before his sisters were old enough for me to fob them off on him. Endless, endless, hour after hour after hour ground hog day repetitions of the exact. Same. Thing.