How to play with a child while maintaining a close relationship?

How much value does playing with a parent provide in a child’s life? And yet our career commitments mean that we have less and less time for it, and sometimes we are simply too tired to do so. Why and what is the purpose of playing with children. First of all, the child needs the presence of the other person. There may be moments where they don’t want to have physical contact but need to know you’re there for them — at some point, that desire for contact will come back. It’s not the case that a child needs someone to be constantly next to them. Sometimes the better situation is when we do our own thing, the child will ask for us when they need us, and we will be ready to stop what we are doing or invite the child to join us. Then we focus entirely on them for a moment. Playing alone is fun when it is on the child’s initiative to do so and when the child likes to play alone, not when he feels lonely and is playing alone because there is no other choice. Because when a child has no choice, playing in itself may grow to have negative associations in memory.