Find other ways to give your child the conscious attention they actually begging when they lure you back to those annoying tracks, cubes, puzzles. It goes gradually, but it goes. Tina and I also found what we enjoy. We are painting. We read and talk, invent our own fairy tales. We play dobble or man, memory game, games that I loved as a child.
And besides playing, we have absolutely practical activities that unite us: I fill the washing machine, she turns it on. She hands me the laundry, I'll hang him. Tina picks up the dirty dishes, I'll put him in the dishwasher. She sprinkles flour, I make it into a cake. This is not a duty for children, this is also a game.