Buying gifts for kids is quite fun

Antique_Guitars

I aquired a Nephew and Godson within a few months of eachother earlier this year and its really nice to buy little gifts for them and see them really happy.

That is all.

holnrew

I have a second niece due in ten days. I'm going to do all I can to foster both of their toilet humour.

thisisguitar

Buy yourself them a helicopter, then you'll they'll have loads more fun :-)

underdog

thisisguitar;452346" said:

Buy yourself them a helicopter, then you'll they'll have loads more fun :-)

And some Lego, and a DS, a cool RC car and some nerf guns too. God I love having kids

jd0272

The helicopter was a disaster, cat was fckn terrified and The Boy demolished it via the walls. The Nerf guns were good 'til The Boy 'lost' the Nerf ammo before tea (how he managed to misplace the ammo in the confines of a house in such a short time is beyond me, the skills of a [then] 5 yr old). He wanted a DS but as he's got a PS Vita already and my PS3, and the Wii they've got and never so much looked at,  it all makes the DS look poo, so he ain't getting one. I think...

I've no idea what they're all getting as Mrs jd0272 attends to all that. I know the youngest (bless 'im) is getting a karaoke thingy with a Frozen Sing-a-long disc, which I'm quite frankly dreading. I'm all Frozen Out TBH. He loves it though, so I shall drink and accept.

jd0272

underdog said:

thisisguitar;452346" said:

Buy yourself them a helicopter, then you'll they'll have loads more fun :-)

And some Lego, and a DS, a cool RC car and some nerf guns too. God I love having kids

Lego is always cool  I can't wait until he's interested enough for Meccano!!! Loved it when I were in the 1970's!

RobDavies

My boys are a bit older now (10 and 14) so this is the first year we've not made a big pilgrimage to Toys R Us for christmas presents.

Bit of a shame, that.

underdog

jd0272;452379" said:

underdog said:

thisisguitar;452346" said:Buy yourself them a helicopter, then you'll they'll have loads more fun :-)

And some Lego, and a DS, a cool RC car and some nerf guns too. God I love having kids












Lego is always cool  I can't wait until he's interested enough for Meccano!!! Loved it when I were in the 1970's!

Lego is the coolest toy in the world, my 4 year old loves it thank god I bought him a helicopter this year but the one inside a cage so it doesn't crash when it hits things.

@RobDavies I feel for you man, my wife is distraught that our 12 year old wants clothes and makeup and no toys.

Sambostar

I have a couple of nephews, like Holnrew says, the toilet humour and childish stupidity and pranks were fun for a while, now they are just addicted to playing video games, whilst sitting three feet away from the 50" TV and that is all they love for, much like most people on here it seems.  They are only around 6.  But at least they still like a kickabout, or throwabout as it is over there. They do do shitloads of sports, but at that age on, I was playing with things and making things, even a few years on, I was making go carts, anything I could make and now I make what I like and do a practical job. 

Another cannon fodder generation being brought up unable to even use a jacksaw, whose only career option if they fail at academia will be the army (So they can teach them what they didn't learn for themselves).  Maybe I should get them some arduino for Xmas.

Toys are great learning tools I think and teach personal discipline and patience and fertilize the imagination, as kids make add ons, or improvise with them, but these days it seems kids just want their imagination to be spoon fed intravenously into their synaptic fluid whilst they sit on a bean bag and get mad when they don't achieve a level.

I think it all started to go wrong when we stopped leaving new borns outside for the first night after their birth.  Instead of a Spartans, we now have a race of obese useless people.

BigMonka

underdog said:

Lego is the coolest toy in the world, my 4 year old loves it thank god I bought him a helicopter this year but the one inside a cage so it doesn't crash when it hits things.

@RobDavies I feel for you man, my wife is distraught that our 12 year old wants clothes and makeup and no toys.

Ah, the old keep your kid in a cage so they can't break your helicopter trick 

FX_Munkee

The problem with Lego is the amount of self restraint it requires to not push the little darlings out of the way and do it (properly) yourself

underdog

FX_Munkee;452603" said:

The problem with Lego is the amount of self restraint it requires to not push the little darlings out of the way and do it (properly) yourself

Oh, so you're not suppose to do that then? I'll write that down I think

jd0272

FX_Munkee;452603" said:

The problem with Lego is the amount of self restraint it requires to not push the little darlings out of the way and do it (properly) yourself

Guilty M'Lord.

crunchman

We took ours to see Father Christmas on Saturday.  The 6 year old asked him for Glitzi Globes that hadn't been on the radar previously - dratted Youtube toy videos.  The 3 year old then copied her and asked for the same thing.  That sparked a bit of a panic!

Thankfully my wife managed to find the last 2 that Argos seemed to have in stock locally and reserve them.

Next year I think the trip to see Father Christmas may be a little earlier so we don't get any last minute surprises!

chillidoggy

 

Sambostar said:

I have a couple of nephews, like Holnrew says, the toilet humour and childish stupidity and pranks were fun for a while, now they are just addicted to playing video games, whilst sitting three feet away from the 50" TV and that is all they love for, much like most people on here it seems.  They are only around 6.  But at least they still like a kickabout, or throwabout as it is over there. They do do shitloads of sports, but at that age on, I was playing with things and making things, even a few years on, I was making go carts, anything I could make and now I make what I like and do a practical job. 

Toys are great learning tools I think and teach personal discipline and patience and fertilize the imagination, as kids make add ons, or improvise with them, but these days it seems kids just want their imagination to be spoon fed intravenously into their synaptic fluid whilst they sit on a bean bag and get mad when they don't achieve a level.

 

Ah, but you seem to have missed the fact that these kids will provide a vast pool of combat-ready drone pilots to draw from, with which to bomb the Taliban.