preschooler won't play alone

Hi Manju,
Welcome to IL!
I think each kid is different you have to figure out what she likes to do most, like puzzles, or drawing, or even introduce her to computers..
Even I have a kid who just turned 3 two weeks back. He is very much fascinated with electronics like cameras, vedio,cell phones..He is very curious to know how things work than playing with toys. So we gave him our old camera and video he takes the screw driver he will sit down try to figure out how to open something or the other charging batteries for his trains…. Also he likes Thomas trains we have lot of varieties he also builds them. Some times he also plays some building blocks and train games in computer..
My suggestion is find out what she likes..Hope this helps..

Tulasi

 

Hi manjur,

Some children like to play alone..they dont mind doing things alone.. some cannot stay alone...

Try different things and activities...and also find what she is interested...maybe with time she will learn to play on her own..

Initially make her play and you can sit in the same room..

 

Hi Manjur
I have been thru that so let me put my 2 cents here. my son who is now 13 was a toddler when we lived in atlanta. and he never played alone too. i never hesitated to play with him and so did my dh. i would finsih cooking etc either early morn or late eve when dh took over. i feel that has made a great impact bec. he is very mature also very close to us. evne today we all play together. you can start taking child to park , zoo etc. at home together you can do building blocks trains or whatever the child fancies. this is jus a passing phase and once kg starts they will bec. more independent. if you have mommy and me classes or kindergym those help a lot!!!!!!!!

 

Hi Manjur,

I have a 3 yr old daughter and she is same like yours. But from the age of 2.7 years onwards, she started to play in computer, and now when she is 3.2 yrs, she is able to play independatly in laptop. She can win and go to many levels in the games she likes. She likes to watch cartoon and we bought many preschool vcd and dvd. She knows ABCD fully, many rhymes atleast 15 fully. She can talk well in english. As the others said you have to create interest in them. Iam not saying you have to make them addicted to TV, computer and other things. But when you are alone in a foreign country with none to look after them other than you, you always feel better even if you get 10 mins free time for you to do things that you want to do.

You can download some of the games like Hammer Head, Luxor, Chameleon Gems,....

My daughter will make me sit and watch the same cartoons and kids movie. I might have watched Garfield 2 and Happy feet many many many...........times.

But off late, we realised that we shouldnt see any other movie that she can catch any thing from that, talk any extra words that we dont want her to use. Like when we are in car and my hubby always shouts stupid, idiot at other guys who dont drive properly. She says daddy is bad bcos he uses bad words. She remembers movie even after a week or so, she remembers action, do boxing like this, dish dush.... songs...dupatta tera.....

So you should be very careful.