Monday Fluff

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Registered: 10-01-2010
Monday Fluff
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Mon, 11-22-2010 - 9:59am

1. Will you be shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

2. "5 months of bills...." as the song says. Do you have a budget for the holidays or do you have "5 months of bills..."?

3. What is one food that most people make for Thanksgiving that you do not like?

4. Do you dress up for Thanksgiving?

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 9:18am
LOL, well considering that many if not most toys are made in china, yea, i guess it is the adverstising and hype we respond to. what a crazy world we live in.

 

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 9:28am

I'm going to have to disagree with you here.

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Registered: 10-06-2010
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 9:35am
The Girl was always fascinated with the Easy Bake Oven. Still gets it out occasionally. She has a minor interest in cooking/baking. She wants to do it, gets started ... then when it comes time to do the hard parts (or clean up) she wanders off ...

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 9:38am
Oh, we had a toy kitchen too, back in their preschool years one of my sons used to play this game where he was the pizaa delivery guy. He would anser the phone in his pretend kitchen, take the order, pretend to cook a pizza then get on his tricycle to go deliver the pizza. It was cute. What I do not agree with is, when a child expresses an interest in learning a skill, restricting them to inferior, "pretend" products in middle childhood and beyond.
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 10:02am
thumbs down.

who said anything about restricting a child's interest or learning a skill to JUST pretend?

what boggles my mind is that kids - as young as 6 - are baking, unsupervised, the inference that it's something a natural 6 YO does. on this board, it's common, very common, to agree with but i have to ask what that sounds like IRL, oh, my 6 YO angel baked cookies all by herself the other weekend. that would knock my socks off, LOL. but i guess that's because me, my mom friends and our children are less mature. than what's spoken about here.

 

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 10:15am

My DH is totally excited about getting our sons some Red Toolbox kits in a couple of years.

http://www.red-toolbox.com/en/index.aspx





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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 10:17am
Sorry, ut that's just silly. It is not something to brag about that your child bakes and people who brag about their children's interests and accomplishments uually come off as sounding ridiculous, I agree. But for many kids with a lot of curiousity and a stubborn, independent streak, naking a bbatch of cookies or a pan of brownies at 6 would not be unthinkable. So what? Children mture at different rates in different areas and it could be that the six year old who bakes is still wearing night diapers or something. Who care? Childhood is not a race, but neither is it a state of suspended animation where the goal should be to keep the little angels both innocent and ignorant as long as possible.
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Registered: 10-01-2010
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:03am

ITA with you. I also don't think there is anything wrong WITH doing things for your children. Yes, they need to learn to do things on their own but I don't think they "need" to do many things before they leave the house to be able to live on their own. I have confidence in my children that if they don't do something before they move out that they will be able to figure it out on their own-lol!! I have said before my mom did everything for us growing up and I had NO problem cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, bills, etc.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:03am

If my own children are any indication, it has nothing to do with maturity and more to do with a general fascination with "real" things.





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Registered: 10-01-2010
Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:04am

It's fun. That is the problem, no one seems to want their kids to be a kid. There is no reason at the age of 5 they need to know how to function a major appliance. Easy Bake Oven is perfect for them and they enjoy making little things for the family.

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