OT Leapfrog ? for those w/ kids

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OT Leapfrog ? for those w/ kids
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Thu, 11-30-2006 - 10:15pm

I'm considering getting Joey (5 and in pre-K) a Leappad or Leapster or L-Max for Christmas. He had one of those my first Leappads when he was really little and didn't get a thing out of it--we may have used it twice... but a friend of his, just a couple of weeks older, got a Leappad plus Writing and he seemed to enjoy working through the books...

Do any of your children have Leappads? Leapsters? L-Max?

What do you think? Love them? Hate them? Somewhere in between?

What books/software are good? Which ones could they do without?

Thanks!

Julie

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Mon, 12-04-2006 - 11:49pm

You see, for a while I stopped taking Brooke shopping with me (I have to now, or nothing fits... but I could guess when she was 3).


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~

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Tue, 12-05-2006 - 11:33am

Funny, but not fair.

I actually bought the "gift set" that is the Leapster in GREEN, a BLUE carrying case, and one game (I guess this was only available at Walmart)... and I almost didn't do it because it WASN'T PINK! Then I thought real hard, and figured, the machine, the case and a game for the SAME price the game goes for elsewhere in PINK or BLUE... but darn it, I almost wanted the pink one... but sometimes MONEY has to talk:)

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Tue, 12-05-2006 - 11:37am

Julie,

You know what's funny? I posted how my kids never play with their Leap Frog toys anymore and then just last night my daughter asked me where her Leapster is. She said she's been looking for it but can't find it. She was near tears because she missed it so much.

Who knew?!

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Tue, 12-05-2006 - 9:10pm

Exactly... especially when they're the same darn thing in a different case... I don't get it myself. But I got the email that it shipped today, so I'm super excited!

The thing is that if the choice was getting a girl a blue one because its cheaper, I could totally do it... but if the pink one was cheaper, I would have still bought blue, because Joey wouldn't even touch a pink one.

Its funny, because he has the TRU Big Toy Book and the boy and gender neutral pages look pretty beat up (and he's marked almost everything on those pages), but the pink pages look like they haven't even been touched. I made this comment to xmil tonight and Joey over heard and said, but Mommy, the pink pages are the GIRL pages... and I'm a BOY... (as if I had any doubt)

*hugs*

Julie

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Tue, 12-05-2006 - 9:15pm

Isn't it funny how all of a sudden something from long ago becomes a must have right NOW or a mental breakdown is going to happen? Joey gets that way sometimes--the thing that seems to do it with him is his stuffed animals--he has a million of them on his bed, but sometimes he can't find one... you know THE one that has gotten pushed down between the mattress, the bedpost and the corner? Which we find 3 hours after we start looking? :)

*hugs*

Julie

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Wed, 12-06-2006 - 10:07am
Isn't it amazing how we *try* to not gender stereotype our kids, but at 4, they are pretty much typed out!

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