Psychology says parents who get bored easily playing with their kids aren't bad parents — anthropologists find adults getting on the floor to play is a recent invention, and the kids in cultures where nobody does it turn out fine

Psychology says parents who get bored easily playing with their kids aren't bad parents — anthropologists find adults getting on the floor to play is a recent invention, and the kids in cultures where nobody does it turn out fine

You’re holding a pillow over your face, dropping it, and revealing a different ridiculous expression to your child. You’ve done this roughly four hundred times. They want you to do it again. You would rather do almost anything else. And then comes the guilt. Because what kind of parent gets bored playing with the person...