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my 5 year old son

I have a 5 year old son and he always wants me to "watch him" in the bath, playing games..anything! I feel bad that I have things to do around the house that I can't "watch him" every time he wants me to. How do I break him of this without feeling guilty that maybe he needs more attention..but even when we spend all day at the park or what have you, he still wants me to watch him..he is my only child, so I don't have much experience with this...it's driving me crazy too!

Re: my 5 year old son

I had that problem. Then I started to be a bit more firm and tell him that I was going to watch him for 10 minutes (or whatever time frame you want to give) and then it was my turn to get something done. As long as I stuck to the time frame it worked for me.