When did your kid start playing in their room?

[waterchurch]

Right now we are all in the living area all day, except for nap time and nights. We are giving DS a toddler table and chairs set for his room, but now I'm wondering when he's ever going to use it.
When did your kid start spending time in their room to play? Do you sit there with them? It seems strange right now for him to spend awake time in a separate room, but I assume at some point that becomes less weird.

[Deleted]

We are not big "play in your room people" but on the same line I've been encouraging DD to play in her play room by herself. It works about 60% of the time now for at least a little bit.

She's almost 3.5.

[bearbaby]

Given what cjeanette posted, that age will be approximately Never.

[hermione]

C is in her play room for very brief periods by herself starting last month (so she was 19 months old). Every few minutes I yell, "C are you ok?" To which she replies, "No." She still prefers to bring her toys from the play room to wherever DH and I are.

[Ashley&Scott]

M will be 3 next month & I don't see it happening any time soon. He will play for short lengths of time in his playroom, but that is on our main floor.

Do you have a play area where you could put the table & chairs?

[catbus]

Hmm, since turning two E has been often perfectly happy to wander in his room for "toys time" and quietly entertain himself for 20-30 minutes before realizing he needs one of his parents to complete the plan.
Edit: Oh yeah, house is small so his bedroom is just around the corner from the living room. It's not like he's cool with being on a separate floor from us. 

Related cute thing he does: He'll pull out a few trucks and have them interact with each other. A few times he's had dump truck dump things into the garbage truck, and garbage truck then says, "Thanks, dump truck!" and drives off.

[rex]

her room is right off the living room, and i'd say she spends 75% of her time playing in there. she has free reign of the living area and her room.

when you live in a box, not playing in the bedroom isn't an option.

[hocus2]

So rooms are just for sleeping for the most part around here. Sometimes my 5 year old will take a friend up stairs and play but she doesn't usually do that on her own. She was home for 2 hours while I working and she played on the floor of my office. Once the kids are older I want to fix up the basement as a hang out option and convert our playroom back to a dinning room.

[holly116]

DD started playing in her room when she stopped taking regular naps because mamma needs a break. She has her dollhouse in there and a few books, otherwise, all the toys are in the playroom.

Occasionally she wants to get away from her brothers and I'll let her go upstairs. She's 4, this probably started over a year ago.

[cinco]

My older two do a little, but only started when they had their own rooms. This was age 5 and 7. Before that we had no room to move in their bedroom.

[ilikedonuts]

My kids play by themselves in their playroom (daily) and in DD1's room (not daily but whenever DD1 wants to play with her stuffed animals or baby doll stuff). They are 3 and 1. I check on them while doing stuff around the house. We have a gate at the top of the stairs and there isn't anything they can really get into upstairs and the playroom is fully gated downstairs. DD1 is really good with her sister.

DD1 is 3 and if we didn't have the baby, she'd have free range of the house. She's been left in the playroom to play since she was a lot younger. Its baby proof. She's not going anywhere.

[cricketwife]

Ds has "played" in his room since he was born but we have a small1940s house and I can see him in there more or less from most of the house. Our house is too small to not use all if the square footage that we have.

[Deleted]

DD plays more independently than DS. It's pretty personality driven, as well as age. At 3.5 he'll occasionally entertain himself for a few minutes.

[zarapipe]

Dds room is right off the living room so she plays quite a but in there with the door open. Small house so toys are in there now. She just recently started to at age 4.

[ladygrey]

DD is 18m and she will play in her room if I am cleaning or working upstairs (on the same level).