Day four of my vacation and week of confessions. Here is number four: I don’t really like playing with my kids. Well – let me clarify. I don’t really enjoy playing with toy trains, building Lego tower after Lego tower so that my toddler can knock them over, or running through the same “Wake Up Jeff!” scene from the Wiggles over and over and over and over again (and again and again and again and again) with my three year old.
I’ve never been all that good at this part of being with kids. I love them and I love spending time with them (I was a babysitter for years), but I just can’t rediscover that inner child that can disappear in the land of make believe for hours on end. I get bored. And then I want to sneak my headphones in and listen to one of my recorded books (see Monday’s confession). And then I feel guilty and throw myself into the game with far more gusto than I actually feel. But it makes the kids happy – so I guess it all works out in the end.
I first recognized this apathy back when my now college age cousin was three and said that playing “guys” (i.e. action figures) with me was different because I always had them taking naps. I’ve even tried this with my own kids, “Hey – let’s pretend that we’re sleeping!” But that damn Jeff always wakes up when people yell at him – so it is just more of the “Wake Up Jeff” game. Which completely defeats the purpose.
What about you? Have anything that you want to confess?
Yeah, that can be hard, can’t it. I have no interest in some of the things my guys are interested in. But I do make it a point to pretend to like it every once in a while.
My theory? If I do that, when they are just a bit older (they’re both tweens), they’ll still come to me and talk when they need to.
My confession is that I don’t think I could ever be a mom. I think I’ll always be too much of a selfish kid. For the past three weeks I’ve been taking care of 25+ kids for 4 hours every afternoon. I love helping them build houses out of cardboard boxes and playing guess who 50 times in a row, but I’m always thankful that after those 4 hours i can send them elsewhere and be without kids for 20 hours until i see them again.
Melissa – that’s a good perspective. And I remember that tween phase with my cousins. It’s got its own set of challenges…
Christine – there is nothing wrong with choosing not to have kids, and never let anyone make you feel badly about that choice if you make it. I have a couple of very good friends that decided motherhood isn’t for them. They love spending time with the kids they know, but they’re very happy and know that they’ve taken the path best suited to them.
eventually they stop asking you to play with them. and it is a complete relief.
What Christine said.
And how
I get bored too but I still try to make some effort, sometimes.
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