Do You Play With Your Kids? - ParentDish

"I feel enormous pressure and guilt when it comes to playing with my kids," says Mississippi mom Megan Jordan, 32. "I remember being pregnant with my second and reading an article about parents relearning how to play. At the time, I was still fairly enamored with being a mother and thought it was a little sad, but it's become a self-fulfilling prophesy. No sooner had I judged that article than I began having trouble coming up with dialog for the action figure I had been assigned for the moment."

Jordan is a busy mother of two boys, ages 4 and 2, and she is expecting her third child. The author of The Velveteen Mind and editor of BlogNosh Magazine, she says that she does not play with her kids every day: " I always thought I would, which makes me feel incredibly guilty. Instead, I probably [really] play with them every other day. On those other days, they basically play around me while I write or manage other tasks. I'm always with them, though not always tuned in."

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