I hated playing with my 4yo, would have rather been doing anything else. I’ve realised recently that when a child wants to be played with and is nagging, it’s a result of prior rejections (at kindy, preschool, school). My daughter is bright, talkative, quite bossy and popular, she still gets rejections sometimes and takes them badly... These days, I tell my daughter that “only some of our likes overlap and that I’m still happy to play with her in her games for a while to show her that I love her and that I want her to be happy, provided that we will spend some time afterwards doing our own things”. She beams when I say that and is happy following the plan.