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Monday Fluff
| 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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I'm going to have to disagree with you here.
"I don’t mind a banshee, that’s fine. 2 banshees? I HATE you. I actually wish bad things upon you." -- Day[9] Daily #459 P1
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.
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
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.
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.
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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