Originally Posted by momosam
Originally Posted by puffin
If they are driving you crazy take them to the park. That is why I get annoyed sometimes by comments about how sad/bad it is that parents are playing with their phones at the park instead of interacting with their kids. I am all interacted out - this is the closest thing I am going to get to a break today. When I was a child I don't remember needing an adult to go to theplaygrouanthey certainly didn't feel needed to entertain me all the time.

Oops. Guesss I hit my own sensitive spot.


You're not the only one!

Do you feel judged while you're at the park, our is it just the online parent police? Around here about half the parents are on the phone, half playing with the kids.

There was a front page article in the paper the other day by some children's exercise programme guy saying how sad/bad it was. Of course the week before there was one blaming parents for not letting children take risks. Can't really win. The on-line community is often judgemental in this respect. I do play with my kids more than my parents ever played with me (things were different then) but there are two of them so asking them to play together at the playground while I have a break doesn't seem unreasonable. Also I took them to the playground - some kids never get taken anywhere. But I am tired, I work and solo parent 2 HG+ kids and I am an introvert. I need peace from time to time.