Hi
He is 8 and I go out of my way to arrange playdates for him so he isn,t lonely they are hardly ever reciprocated though.
Anyway there is alot of the time spent with with it just been his dad and me.
Being an only I suppose he is going to look towards me as his playmate but I am finding it such a strain of late with him with his demands to do things with him.
I do love him to bits and wouldn,t be without him but from the time he comes home from school my time is taken up with him whether it be play tag, hide and seek, play on the trampoline with him.
I know that I should make an effort to a certain extent and I do but there is no let up with him sometimes and my trouble is that I feel guilty if I don,t do stuff with him and feel guilty if I persuade him to go to his room and put a dvd on.
We don,t have the sort of set up where there is anyone in the family who ever offers to take him out for the day and we don,t have any children in the family of his age that he can go off and have a play with.
Some nights he doesn,t want to go to bed and alhtough I make him go he lies there saying he can,t sleep and its about 10.00pm at night, he is lying there saying I can,t sleep I want to do something with you.
Just wondering if anyone with an only has felt the strain like this.
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