My son (3.2yo) wants me to play with him all fecking day. Obviously I can't. I have chores to do. And need to feed/change/see to ds2 as well who is 5mo.
I have started using a kitchen timer with some success (I will play with him for 20 mins or so and when the buzzer rings I need to go and hang up the laundry/feed the baby/make the dinner). He accepts this but then follows me round whilst I do my chore and then begs me to come back and play awful interminable games with his fucking dinosaurs and trains as soon as I am finished.
And there's no chance of sitting down for 10 mins with a cuppa/book/mag or whatever. Oh no. If I am not cleaning or cooking something then I MUST be playing with him.
We go out the house a lot as you can imagine! Play dates, the park, play group, soft play, farms, woods etc. He is at nursery 3 days per week so is only home with me 2 days and then weekends as well when DH is here too (when he is almost worse cos he wants us to tag each other in and out of playing with him so we never get a bloody moments peace).
I wonder if this is partly because he goes to nursery a lot, so he is trying to wrong every last drop of attention out of me when he IS at home?
And of course the arrival of ds2 has been a big change for him. But this behaviour far pre dates the baby's arrival. He is just such fucking high maintenance. Was as a baby. Is now.
Is this in a scale of normal for a just turned 3yo? How can I deal with the crying, wailing if I say I need to do something for myself (God forbid!)