How much one on one time do you spend with your child - actively interacting?

I spend all day and all night with my youngest (18 months) for she doesn't enjoy the nature beauty of sleep, so we play everything and anything. We play with her balls, cars, books, stuffed animals, and sometimes she will even break down and play with a doll. I spend alot of time crawling around the floor, pushing cars with her, it's starting to give me rug burns lol... With my son who's 6, He goes to school from 7 30 to 3, so Monday thru Friday our times is limited to an hour to two a night of play time. He loves building blocks, legos and knex, so we are always building something. My husband works odd shifts, so he don't get as much interaction with them as he would like but makes the time if they are still awake when he get's home from work, or he'll get up an hour earlier before he heads to work.

I had a woman come out to the house to evaluate my youngest because of his special needs. I invited her in and told her to sit where ever she liked. She was a well dresses social worker with carefully done hair and nails. I was in my good jeans, a nice shirt and brushed hair. A good day with company coming look. I sat on the floor and told her to sit where she liked but that I'm a floor sitter. She asked what I meant. I explained that I sit on the floor more often then not. She asked why. Just then my boy came out and sat in my lap, put his truck in front of me, got up and left. I looked at her and said... That's why. I spend a lot of time with the kids on the floor, in the dirt, and when we are the only ones at the park, hanging from the monkey bars. You name it, you can do it. Today we got a new to us play kitchen given to us. I think I ate enough plastic meals to keep my pretend belly full for a month. Want to know one of the happy side effects of all that? It keeps mom's and dad's younger when they play with their kids. And the three I played with today are almost 9, almost 5 and 18 months.

You are starting some really wonderful discussions tonight! We're a bit odd as parents I suppose. My husband works the 3-11 shift and gets up with the children at night, and is up first thing with them in the morning with me. We spend their entire waking hours with them. My husband is also our martial arts teacher so we spend each day working on something. Then my husband and I play with their toys with them. Right now my son is into Star Wars much to his father delight so they run around with lightsabers and have battles. They also play with this action figures. As a family we work on sign language together daily as my husband has a hearing loss. Our daughter is only 6 months old but she loves us playing with her with her blocks, etc. We read daily with our kids too. As a teacher I think that is the most important activity we can do with our kids each day. (Though all play is wonderful). It's funny because we're never without our children. We take our college classes seprately so that one of us is with our children. We're also learning both Chinese and Japanese so we rattle off things all day long lol. Oh, and sometimes my son decides to grab his father's bokans and try to play. He's learning quickly that they are for outside only. I just love our children and can't think of anything else I'd rather do. We even do our chores together as a family so that they will not only learn from example but so that they feel included. Namaste-Anora