Since the "toys you won't allow" thread I've realized my kids pretty much have a toy arsenal. There's a wooden rifle sitting on the coffee table right now.
Conversely, dh and I intend to show the kids Band of Brothers and The Pacific as soon as theyre old enough. We want them to know how horrific war actually is. And they aren't allowed to play any video games, partially because of the violence.
We have weapon toys and I am anti real life weapons. What can you do.
Yep, same here. Also, my kids (and probably any others who have been exposed to toy weapons) have the ability to turn just about any toy into a "weapon" - I'm trying to remember what it was that DS turned into a gun the other day. But it was something very innocent.
Post by sparkythelawyer on Oct 29, 2014 12:26:34 GMT -5
One of the things the husband and I are happy about regarding having a girl is the decreased likelihood of videogames entering our house. Neither one of us are gamers, and have zero interest in dropping that kind of $$.
I was just shocked by the "my kid has nothing that makes noise, is plastic, has batteries." What the hell does your kid play with? Almost everything we have has batteries and is plastic. He has a couple wooden toys , but just tries to beat the dogs with them.
I'm sure A will have toy guns, bow n arrows, sling shots, R's family hunts so it's inevitable.
I absolutely do not allow toy guys but I do allow light sabers, swords, play knives. I never realized until that thread that it's a little hypocritical of me, lol. I just really hate guns, I guess.
We just quietly weed out any electronics that make particularly annoying sounds.
Lame confession: FIL found Bluebeary version 4.0 (5.0 has been in play for a few months now). I stashed 4.0 in the hall closet and for the first time ever Hart decided he wanted to look in there.
"Heeey, what's Bluebeary doing in the closet, mom?"
"Oh, man, I must have put him up there when I was cleaning!"
Bluebeary version 5.0 was quickly snatched off his bed and stuffed in a drawer in our bedroom.
One of the things the husband and I are happy about regarding having a girl is the decreased likelihood of videogames entering our house. Neither one of us are gamers, and have zero interest in dropping that kind of $$.
This makes me lol and lol and lol. The parents of girls I know spend shitloads more on other things. Having girls is no cheaper than boys.
I'm pretty sure even if ds had every game console known to man, dd would still be more expensive.
Where the FUCK do all of the hair bows go? There has to be a window to another dimension somewhere in this house.
She also has like 10 pairs of shoes. I don't even get off on buying her shoes. It's just that I don't want her to look stupid and girl shoes are just as outfit specific as women's shoes.
One of the things the husband and I are happy about regarding having a girl is the decreased likelihood of videogames entering our house. Neither one of us are gamers, and have zero interest in dropping that kind of $$.
That's abuse and neglect. I'm buying your kid all of the Mario games!
One of the things the husband and I are happy about regarding having a girl is the decreased likelihood of videogames entering our house. Neither one of us are gamers, and have zero interest in dropping that kind of $$.
My nephews xbox is waay cheaper than all my nieces American girl stuff.
I downloaded a game to my phone for DS to play because we were stuck in the car for a bit. Now that's all he wants to do. You pick an animal, it makes its little sounds and then bubbles fall in front of it and you have to pop the bubbles. Silver lining: he has doubled the number of animals he knows and he's getting pretty good at popping those bubbles?
One of the things the husband and I are happy about regarding having a girl is the decreased likelihood of videogames entering our house. Neither one of us are gamers, and have zero interest in dropping that kind of $$.
This makes me lol and lol and lol. The parents of girls I know spend shitloads more on other things. Having girls is no cheaper than boys.
Post by cuddlyevil on Oct 29, 2014 12:38:19 GMT -5
There is a crater on the moon filled with lost hairbows.
And the nail polish and dresses. OMG.
ETA: I will have a hard time not getting all derpy tomorrow when I see my coworker. He's letting his beard grow in and will be in scrubs. I will be melty all morning.
The whole gun thing with kids shocked me. David never played with a gun at all until I was at a friend's house and they had all kinds of toy rifles and fake guns. David was 3 at the time and he played all day with the other boys, fake shooting. I really didn't care, it was NBD, I get that other parents think it's dumb that I don't let David play with guns so I didn't say anything. But man, after that he pretended EVERYTHING was a gun-his hands, his toys, his Legos, and he would fake shoot constantly and it never really went away. He was immediately obsessed, the whole thing was fascinating to watch. We eventually had to talk to him about the fake shooting but he STILL sometimes does it.
There is a crater on the moon filled with lost hairbows.
And the nail polish and dresses. OMG.
And single, solitary socks
And HOW MANY SHADES OF PINK ARE THERE? You think you've got socks that will match that dress, but nope, they're a hair more magenta instead of true coral.
When the ultrasound tech said "it's a boy" I cried tears of joy. SD1 was absolutely horrible that summer with her preteen girl attitude. I had it up to HERE. She calmed down starting around around age 12, but damn that was a rough summer.
Can I through in a non-child related confession here...
So, I've been hanging out with a dude, we are not exclusive, mp calls him my non-boyfriend. He wants to hang out on Friday night because I'll be out of town the next week and I am awesome.
Which I am all for. I won't have to hustle for drinks or flirting or whatever.
However, I feel like Halloween is kind of the best night to hook it up with randoms...so I am trying to go out Saturday night sans dude. Bonus points for not being in town, so any dude I meet Saturday would just be for-funsies (says the girl who picked up a dude in Vegas and he is now my non-boyfriend.)
You're welcome for spicing up your confessions a little
Now that J is in school I wish he was a girl. I bet he would behave, listen and not act like a fool all the time if he was a girl. Trying to get J to follow public school norms seems so futile somedays. And of course it only the boys who act up in class.
I was terrible - TERRIBLE - as a preteen/teenager (granted, our family was going through some rough shit, but still).
I cling to the hope that boys aren't nearly as bad.
I think they are bad in a different way. Girls will scream that they hate you or whatever. My brother was great when talking to my parents and then did stuff he wasn't supposed to and got in trouble.
We have weapon toys and I am anti real life weapons. What can you do.
Yep, same here. Also, my kids (and probably any others who have been exposed to toy weapons) have the ability to turn just about any toy into a "weapon" - I'm trying to remember what it was that DS turned into a gun the other day. But it was something very innocent.
My mom deliberately kept all gun-like toys out of the house when we were little. What did my brother do at age 3/4? Bit his toast into a gun and pew-pewed everyone in the room. LOL You can try, but there's not much you can REALLY do.