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Conversation at TRU overheard
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 06:28:53 GMT
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I was standing in TRU today... and there's a woman with her 2 kids, a
boy just about to turn 7 and a girl probably 10 or 11.. The boy had some
money to spend and wanted to get some Lego, He was looking over the
shelf.. and pulling out sets he thought he might like.. and the sister
and mother kept pointing out the age range on the sets. At one point the
mother said you're about to turn 7 so I suppose you could get a 7+ set.
Is this really the way parents pick out presents?? and make their kids
think? they can't do something past their "age" limit??
My Ex had 3 kids, and I NEVER went by the age on the box when I got the
older one lego, granted he was a bright child, though still... I never
tried to stunt his experience with new things I at least let him try. If
he needed help I'd help him, Or could we be looking at a parent that
doesn't do hands on stuff with her kids here?
Basically, do all of you out there with Kids pick the sets by the age
range on the box for them???
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| ---...--- In article <386C4D25.44310EA7@w....att.net>, Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote: (snip) (...) Of course, and when the child passes the upper age range, I take the LEGO away from the screaming young person... ;) Rob (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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| (...) I answer speaking of toys in general, not just sets... Yes and no. When my kids were much younger, of the age where they could choke on things or get trapped in them or strangled, etc., I gave much more credence to age ranges, especially the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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| (...) Not all but some. I've seen some parents think that their kid is just going to be crushed if they can't make the set on the box especially when the age range says that they can't. So they nudge their kid toward another set, never thinking that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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| I'm sure glad my parents didn't pick my toys that way -- I was thoroughly hooked on town system Lego at age 4, space followed soon afterwards (and castle when it came out a bit later). -- Paul Davidson Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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| Mookie wrote in message <386C4D25.44310EA7@w...tt.net>... (...) I had a similar experience at Zany-Brainy just before Christmas although it was with a grandmother buying a present for one of her grandchildren (who was not with her). Her grandson (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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| (...) I don't consider the age range on the box much. I sometimes think that toy companies are playing a game of putting high ages on the boxes so that parents will think that their kids are geniuses when the play with something labeled 7 to 10 when (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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