i ahev never ever played hide and seek or lets pretend

[FluffyMummy123]

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I'd rather do hide and seek or role play then get the paints out, but that's just me

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god me neither

nor board games

but I do arty farty stuff and baking

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never got parents who would play hide and seek outdoors with their kids

so, let's see ... you're teaching them to 'hide' right? ... and you don't think you'll be worried when they decide to play 'hide and seek' when you're not actually playing do you?

deranged madness

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god my v. intense friend does this with her dd and if i am there with my dd i have to join in with a fixed grin and v. half hearted 'oh there you are what a surprise, i couldn't see you at all in the bush with your primary coloured clothes and loud giggling.'

You old misery cod. We love playing hide and seek in our garden or best of all in the gardens at Exbury. My dses are pretty rubbish at it though - they are too little to get the hang of it and squeal really loudly with excitement whenever anyone comes near.

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I've played follow my leader with ds... made me so indescribably happy that he was doing everything he should be doing.

Many years ago, my best friend, her husband and I played hide and seek with their two year old. All three of us crammed ourselves into the cupboard thing where the hoover and ironing board lived. When their son opened the door and saw us squished in there he screamed and fell over...

am pmsl at 2 year old screaming and falling over

seriously pmsl

he was looking for you, wasn't he?

ROFL

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He was definitely looking for us as he'd found us in other places.

It always makes me laugh when I think about it, and a teeny tiny bit guilty.

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Hide and seek outside is a good way of getting them to walk/run a decent way in a park or stately-house-gardens. But we only do it when DH and I are both there so DD is with one of us. Even now she's 8, the prospect of her hiding too well would scare me.

She likes playing hide and seek in the house too - new dog always follows me and stands pointing so its got really daft. I like it when its her turn to hide cos I can do something else while pretending to count to 100.

pretend games .... arggg.... she still loves them. She does realise now that they are a sore trial to me, its a proof of how much I love her that I try to stay awake.

I was so glad she opted for holiday club this week!

I don't mind playing whist or Cadoo. Esp when granny (then 88) joined in. Couldn't read the hidden writing on the 'cameo' card so DH, who wasn't playing, whispered in her ear. What he told her was 'baboon' (not what the card actually said). She upped and did it and we guessed at once. Much hilarity.

emsmum ... may I recommend the stopwatch feature on your mobile phone? hours and hours of them running away from you and straight back to check out whether they've beaten their previous best

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mobile phones have stopwatches? How bizarre.

I only carry the thing for emergency outgoing calls, its never turned on. why would I want anyone to phone me when I'm out with my family.

I will happily play :-

lego I make brilliant houses apparently
playmobile
geomag
ps2
scrabble/monopoly/snakes & ladders/build it lego/guess who/trumps/any new christmas/birthday game
tennis/football/rugby throws/cricket/basketball

will tolerate :-

strictly come dancing but only with curtains closed and no cameras

hide and seek (but NOT all day ds)
crazy golf it irritates me !

refuse to play:-

Pop to the shops (played to many times)
buckeroo
painting/clay
twister
british bull dog
trampolining
cricket on the ps I can't do it !!

When I was at home alone with dd, she used to say "Let's play hide ans seek, Mummy - come on, lets hide together"
Bizarre - but she enjoyed it!

i stick my kids in a box in the cupboard and occasionally bring them out when we have guests round. Play with them? Good god no. Isn't that what we have nannies for?

Get a grip.

Playing pretend with my 2 year old has brought on his speech and imagination SO much.

Kids love to play. it's also how they LEARN stuff.

I do play hide and seek and pretend games with ds (3yrs old) and yes at home but then again he is on only and has no-one else to play with a lot of the time. Those of us without the 'luxury' of being able to have more than one do tend to play with with their dcs a bit more.

Sometimes I find it tedious, sometimes fun depending on my mood and how much I have to do that day.

Board/card games & puzzles are however so excruciatingly dull for me that I rarely agree to play them. Luckily ds seems so far to agree with me and dislikes any puzzles or attempts to teach him simple snap games by dh

seeker - Ds regularly asks that we hid together as well. As for me teaching him, I've never mentioned the game to him.

He asked me to play it one day (I can only blame his CM for that ) and we play by his rules generally (for as long as I can tolerate it).

As for let's pretend and imagainative stuff I don't really do that much but ds has dh for that who still does role playing (no he doesn't dress up) and gaming as one of his hobbies.

Role playing seems to me (and I've never done it of course oh no not me!) to be lots of adult males (mostly male anyway) sitting around telling more and more elaborate stories. At least they are communicating I suppose.