‘Should I force myself to play with my son (3)?’

Sometimes you can’t figure it out on your own and you could use some advice. Every Tuesday a reader therefore tells about her dilemma.

Rowanda (38) lives with Marnix (40) and is the mother of Max (3).

“Take a bath together, watch movies in the big bed or go to the petting zoo; i enjoy the free time i have with my son. But I hate one thing: playing with him at his level.

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In the mother magazines I read what games I can play with him. On internet forums, one was just playing with the car race track and the other with the dollhouse. I should not think about it. Yes, we color together with the bath markers and we bake cookies together. It’s not that I’m not doing anything with my son. But the real play-play, I leave that to himself and his friends at the nursery.

“Do hide and seek or play with the Aquaplay; my friend also renounces it”

Meanwhile, I feel quite degenerate as a mother. And my boyfriend is just as ‘bad’. He plays soccer with Max, and takes him to the car wash, they both think it’s Saturday’s party. But do hide and seek or play with the Aquaplay; he also forgoes it.

I don’t think our child lacks anything, let alone love, but every now and then I do scratch my head. Do I have to force myself to go along with his game a little more often?”

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