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What do you do with your 4 year old

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purpleme12 · 31/01/2018 22:32

... During the week?
At the minute all she seems to want to do is relax and play play play mostly babies and make believe in the house buy she always needs someone to play with so I'm always playing with her all day.
What do others do at this age? The same?
I do lots of things with her i just feel like recently she more wants to do this so I've cut back a bit on the going out.

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notheretoargue · 31/01/2018 22:38

My four year old also wants to play lots of games. But she also loves activity books, writing stories (she dictates the words to me, she draws the pictures, and then we read them together) and Lego.

purpleme12 · 31/01/2018 22:41

See mine will not really do activities like that. She's not too interested. Then I end up thinking is she going to do less well at school and should I be worrying about her. Oh god I sound so shit. I'm feeling really fed up today

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Marcine · 31/01/2018 22:45

He goes to preschool, plays with duplo, playdoh, little figures, plays on his tablet, watches TV. I read stories and do puzzles, play boardgames with him but I don't do imaginary play.

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BellyBean · 01/02/2018 20:00

My dd only wants to play make believe with her ponies and magnatiles for houses. All day every day. She never wants to go out or do anything else especially now it's cold.

I do 10 or 20 min sets. Play what she wants, then I do chores for 10/20 mins while she plays by herself, then 10/20 mins something else like playdoh or a board game.

She's old enough that telling her sometimes we do what she wants, sometimes what I want. Usually to persuade her to do something I know she'll like but isn't immediately keen on.

Zapdos · 02/02/2018 10:07

My 4 yr old did 3 hours of nursery/pre-school every morning.

In the afternoons we would go to the park (or other outdoor place like Botanic Gardens etc), go to the library, go to soft play with a friend, have friends over, go to a pre-school phonics class (he LOVED this) or just play quietly at home. He loved Lego, play doh, more Lego, board games (both the noisy electronic ones and educational Orchard Toys ones). Occasionally I'd trawl through the Imagination Tree FB page for some inspiration and we'd make icy dinosaur eggs or do letter matching games with post it notes.
We'd sometimes go swimming.

Both of mine are at school now and I miss our afternoons!

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