Least favorite things to play with your younger kids?

[ourbabygirl]

Playing Barbies (not my favorite ;)) with DD today just got me thinking... what are/ were your favorite and least favorite things to do or play with your own kids?

Favorites: reading (aloud), bike rides, coloring, Magnatiles, certain mindless games like Zingo

Least favorites: Barbies/ dolls, Legos

Play doh can go either way, depending on the day.

How about you?

[bisous]

Playing pretend. I also have hated going to the park with my kids. Which sounds terrible to say. They were runners!

I love reading aloud, board games, I love helping with LEGOS, magnatiles, play doh, and most other things!

[bisous]

Playing pretend. I also have hated going to the park with my kids. Which sounds terrible to say. They were runners!

I love reading aloud, board games, I love helping with LEGOS, magnatiles, play doh, and most other things!

[SnuggleBuggles]

Least: Break the Ice- 5 minutes to set up, over in 5 seconds.
Pretend because if inevitability do it “wrong”

ETA- most- puzzles and almost every board game. Curious George zoo game was awesome!
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[jgenie]

Love: Magna-tiles, trains, board and card games (except war - mindless and takes forever), puzzles, play doh, coloring with nice colored pencils

playmobil (we have an insane collection) DS2 and I have very different preferences on what to do when we play Playmobil. I always walk in our Playmobil room and immediately want to sort items - by set category (knights, dinosaurs, city), by category type (weapons, people, food, furniture, etc). I love to stand all the people up in rows. DS2 wants me to play pretend and the whole time I’m itching to organize!

I too disliked playgrounds. Mine were runners and most playgrounds when they were little didn’t have fences. We visited parks that few others visited because it was easier for me to keep up with them when there were fewer people around.

[SnuggleBuggles]

(except war - mindless and takes forever),



Totally OT but was in Vegas recently and 2 casinos had War as table games. $15 minimum / hand! People lost $ in the blink of an eye!!!



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[georgiegirl]

Dislike: pretend (not really an issue now), monopoly, pandemic [emoji23], candyland, life, listening to the boys talk about pokemon, tic tac toe,

Like: reading, legos, magnatiles, park (now that they are older and don’t run or require being pushed on the swings), Catan, sushi go,


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[StantonHyde]

I was never much of a "play" mom. I was an activity mom. We went everywhere--we loved the park, museums, the zoo, arboretum, hiking, geocaching, skiing, sledding, etc. I hated staying home with my kids and would plan stuff just to get out of the house every morning. We would read every night.

[petesgirl]

Yes, pretend play is definitely at the top of my dislike list! Mostly because my kids already have a scenario in mind that they want to play out and I'm magically supposed to know what to say and do.
I'm also completely bored of playing hot wheels because that's what my boys love and want to do all. The. Time.

[niccig]

Cars. You push them and go beep beep. DS wanted to play forever!!! I’m much better at play now that I’m a SLP. I kept many of DS’ toys and my students love the cars and train track


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[gymnbomb]

I was never much of a "play" mom. I was an activity mom. We went everywhere--we loved the park, museums, the zoo, arboretum, hiking, geocaching, skiing, sledding, etc. I hated staying home with my kids and would plan stuff just to get out of the house every morning. We would read every night.

Agree that I would rather do activities than play. I don’t really mind things like coloring and legos and board games and reading books together. I do not enjoy play doh (I cringe when they mix the colors!), pretend, or hide and seek.

My 2 year old just decided the best game was if we take turns pretending to lay down and go to sleep, then you cry and the other person opens the door and comes in to get you. OMG.... Really?


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[lizzywednesday]

I didn't even play with dolls when I was a kid, well, not the way my sister played (and her daughter plays!) with them, so I didn't play with DD.

She makes up her own little scenarios and mixes all kinds of pieces in to give them "food" or jobs. Instead of dolls, I was what would effectively be a LARP-er today - my BFF and I wrote our own Mary Sue LARPing fanfic about the Chronicles of Narnia & we used to play that for HOURS at her house - she had a walkthrough cubby closet and a lot of wooded land, so it was PERFECT for the Lamp Post Wood and other places in the books!

Actually, I'm more likely to run races and teach outdoor skills (riding a scooter, the proper way to wear a bike helmet, how to rake leaves, how to plant the garden, how to prep the soil for bulbs, how to tell a weed from a wanted plant, etc.) than I am to play with toys other than large balls (soccer, basketball, kickball, etc.) or puzzles.

I really don't "do" toy-play, but I'll participate in a child-created scenario as long as they haven't pre-scripted it in their head (I have a lot of neurodiversity in my family, so I do encounter this kind of rigid thinking on the regular) using the improv theatre rule of "yes, and ..."

[lizzywednesday]

...I do not enjoy play doh (I cringe when they mix the colors!)...

While I actually do enjoy Play-Doh (and it has to be either homemade or Play-Doh brand; the other brands' clay smells weird to me), I canNOT stand mixed colors and had to walk away while DD played so I would go ballistic. It's her toy, not mine after all.

[Ceepa]

Agree that I would rather do activities than play. I don’t really mind things like coloring and legos and board games and reading books together. I do not enjoy play doh (I cringe when they mix the colors!), pretend, or hide and seek.

My 2 year old just decided the best game was if we take turns pretending to lay down and go to sleep, then you cry and the other person opens the door and comes in to get you. OMG.... Really?


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The part about playing naptime made me LOL.

[jgenie]

Agree that I would rather do activities than play. I don’t really mind things like coloring and legos and board games and reading books together. I do not enjoy play doh (I cringe when they mix the colors!), pretend, or hide and seek.

My 2 year old just decided the best game was if we take turns pretending to lay down and go to sleep, then you cry and the other person opens the door and comes in to get you. OMG.... Really?


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We had a play tent and DS2 used to like for me to crawl in and hide in there. I often snoozed while he ran around getting everything we needed to play!


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[Tenasparkl]

By far my least favorite thing to play with the kids (or even be in the next room while they were doing it) was making forts. There’s always a mess, it never works the way they want - ugh, I hate it!

I love legos, any kind of dolls or action figures, play doh, setting up obstacle courses, pretend kitchen play - just no forts!

[nfceagles]

That’s funny, our differences. I love forts and used to get way into it. Then I’d let them leave them up longer than my husband liked.

Me and pretend play, however, are not a fit. It just feels crazy awkward to me.


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[SnuggleBuggles]

I’m on team fort too!! Mine rarely made them. [emoji20] I made them all the time as a kid!


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[Kestrel]

Slime! It's got to be slime! Whoever invented this stuff should be doomed to clean it up, everywhere, all over the world.....

[California]

Least favorite here is also pretend play, specifically with DD's beloved baby doll. Sometimes she wants to hold her baby doll, change her baby, etc. She's very methodical about how everything must be done. Something about it slowly makes me sleepier and sleepier.

Loving that so many of you like magnatiles! I bought several sets on sale and I am the main one who likes them. Two of my kids are in their teens now, and they will still play legos or playmobil with my youngest. Still keeping the magnatiles because I enjoy them.

[California]

Least favorite here is also pretend play, specifically with DD's beloved baby doll. Sometimes she wants to hold her baby doll, change her baby, etc. She's very methodical about how everything must be done. Something about it slowly makes me sleepier and sleepier.

Loving that so many of you like magnatiles! I bought several sets on sale and I am the main one who likes them. Two of my kids are in their teens now, and they will still play legos or playmobil with my youngest. Still keeping the magnatiles because I enjoy them.