Why people always to understand parents, but not children? Did you try to understand your children and respect their wants? True that they want to play, but that is the nature of being a child, isnt it? You are kind of making a ideal YOU - what you think happiness should be. But your child is not you, and could never be you. Time and place for you and your child grow up have changed, how can you put your standard on them?
I believe all parents love their children, but do we respect our children as a human being first ( listen to them and treat them as a individual)?