What are you kids wanting now that you find ridiculous/ie plastic pieces of crap that cost way too much for what it is?
Brought to to you by a trip to Michaels earlier. My kids wanted those tsum Tatum surprise bags. $5 for a piece of small plastic crap that they looked at, said was cute, messed with for a minute and will likely be thrown out by Tuesday. I wouldn't have bought them but my mom was there and she indulges them.
Everything he sees on YouTube/TV. He is constantly saying, "Hey I have that!" Or, "Hey, I don't have that!" Until we took the Christmas tree down, he got up every morning to see if there was anything new under the tree from Santa. I think I may need to rein it in. :-|
Stress balls and things filled with slime or goo or squish. Which they promptly cut open. The new thing is cutting all the things open. There are entire YouTube channels about it.
Post by PatBenatar on Jan 14, 2017 21:30:21 GMT -5
Yep ditto Shopkins
Not the same but my MIL buys her all this cheap crap when they go to the dollar store together, especially dollar store barbies. Those things are the worst
Also today she was complaining that she doesn't have a hatchimal. Thanks You Tube
Post by imojoebunny on Jan 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -5
This is why I give my kids allowance. If they waste it on useless junk, then they don't have anything to play with. If they have money, as they do now, being flush with cash from Christmas, the tend to buy more crap. Through the regular year, not so much. When you have to save for 4 or 5 weeks, you are much less likely to buy stuff you don't really want.
Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.
Building crap out of crap. Scotch tape and stapler used to talk e and staple everything together. I find my toilet paper unrolled onto the floor so he can use the tube....and make a periscope gun. And then I have to sneak all of it into the recycle without him seeing it.
yes! This is the worst . I'm such a bad mom, he asks for the stapler and I tell him it's broken lol.
Shopkins. I know lots of people love them, and yes, they're kind of cute, but they're way too overpriced and overrated for what they are.
Grossery Gang here. The rotten food version of shopkins. I actually don't mind those LOL But my son is a pack rat and saves absolutely everything. Tags from clothing if they have some cool picture on it. Sticky hands that aren't even sticky anymore. The worst has been the garbage he brings home from the 'science club' I signed him up for after school. One week was 2 plastic cups full of colored water and shaving cream and glitter that was somehow supposed to be weather. Since I'm half a hoarder myself I indulge him in all of this nonsense.
Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.
Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.
And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!
My kid is in therapy 4 days a week and comes home with junky crap from the treasure chest everyday. He has a memory forever and will attach himself to a broken paper glider and cry when it can't be repaired.
Yo Kai watch coins litter my house, power ranger morphed cards, Pokémon cards. My MIL and H buy him junk from the $ section of the grocery store whenever he goes with them.
Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.
Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.
And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!
Thankfully we have mangaged to avoid YouTube because my kid wants every infomercial he sees.
I avoided Pokémon cards as long as I could. Then I though it was NBD the Easter bunny brought a $5 pack. Hell no the only thing he asked for for Christmas was freaking $50 boxed set of Pokémon cards. I have yet to find them onsale.
Really?? That seems a bit young. Not about how scary it is but with keeping their attention. I bought it, played for like 2 days and then deleted it.
I mean I don't even know if it's a show (I thought it was lol) or a game or what. But I looked up gifts on amazon for a kid's party next weekend and was like "heh. I'll just give a gift card."
It's an app! I played it on my phone. Though an iPad probably would've been easier.
Basically, you're a night security guard at a toy factory/shop. Freddy and his friends are murderous teddy bears that come alive at night and try to make their way to the security guard station. You are in the station controlling the lights and cameras, which are the only things that stop them from getting closer. So you basically spend your time flipping between cameras, turning on and off lights and trying to conserve the power so you can lock your doors when the teddy bears are righty outside them.
Thankfully we have mangaged to avoid YouTube because my kid wants every infomercial he sees.
I avoided Pokémon cards as long as I could. Then I though it was NBD the Easter bunny brought a $5 pack. Hell no the only thing he asked for for Christmas was freaking $50 boxed set of Pokémon cards. I have yet to find them onsale.
LOL at the informercials. We don't have cable so he really doesn't even see commercials. The only ones he sees are on the Qubo channel and they are all 'as seen on tv' stuff. So he was going to ask Santa for weirdly made pillow pets and off brand glowing race car tracks. Fortunately he remembered the Bionicles. haha!
I think I'll hold off on Pokemon. He got one in a goody bag so I don't know why he isn't asking to go shopping. Next year is first grade so I'm sure peer pressure will lead him to those then!
This is why I give my kids allowance. If they waste it on useless junk, then they don't have anything to play with. If they have money, as they do now, being flush with cash from Christmas, the tend to buy more crap. Through the regular year, not so much. When you have to save for 4 or 5 weeks, you are much less likely to buy stuff you don't really want.
Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.
Really? I might have to get my daughter into this then. We need some math practice.
Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.
Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.
And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!
I plan to once my 2 year old is old enough. Sequence and order, addition, subtraction, multiplication, beginning statistics. Some basic scientific concepts such conductivity, as well as an opportunity to teach them how to lose and win graciously, are all skills that you can work on while playing Pokemon. Plus, it's fun, and organizing, maintaining the cards could be a special thing for you and him to do together.
I don't mind Pokemon cards at all, probably because A: they're helping to reinforce math facts for my 3rd grader, and B: my kids are super possessive about their cards and keep them neatly organized in binders.
I plan to once my 2 year old is old enough. Sequence and order, addition, subtraction, multiplication, beginning statistics. Some basic scientific concepts such conductivity, as well as an opportunity to teach them how to lose and win graciously, are all skills that you can work on while playing Pokemon. Plus, it's fun, and organizing, maintaining the cards could be a special thing for you and him to do together.
Wow - I had no idea. I didn't even know it was a game never mind that you could get all of that out of it. I'll take him shopping with some of his money. Thanks!