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    bzylzy #122679 02/10/12 08:42 AM
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    Originally Posted by bzylzy
    When my DD was that age she started doing the jigsaw puzzles "upside down" after she did them a few times with the picture and could do it quickly...she seemed to think doing it by shape only and no picture was really entertaining.

    That reminds me that in my grandfather's house, all the jigsaw puzzles were numbered on the back.

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    Sounds like someone in your grandfather's house was clever/funny/on-the-ball!

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    So do your kids just go through toys fast? Learn what they can from them and move on? Since my DD has such a crazy long attention span, I guess I sort of expected her to enjoy a toy for weeks or months rather than a day or so. She has a few things she has played with for a month or longer, but maybe she no longer finds them beneficial to her and moves on. Lol. She's not happy unless she's absorbing knowledge. Maybe I just need to change my expectations of her enjoying toys long enough to get our money's worth. Ha!


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    The things I mentioned were the things I remember keeping her attention over the longest period of time and not used and tossed aside, there were plenty of those.

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    Originally Posted by bzylzy
    When my DD was that age she started doing the jigsaw puzzles "upside down" after she did them a few times with the picture and could do it quickly...she seemed to think doing it by shape only and no picture was really entertaining. That gets a bit more life expectancy out of puzzles.

    DS did that the other day, and I thought that was beyond "normal."

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    LOL I prefer the word "typical". How old is your DS? He probably just has really good visual processing (or whatever) skills, maybe a visual-spacial person. It's nice that he's inventive!

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    Originally Posted by HappyChef
    So do your kids just go through toys fast? Learn what they can from them and move on? Since my DD has such a crazy long attention span, I guess I sort of expected her to enjoy a toy for weeks or months rather than a day or so. She has a few things she has played with for a month or longer, but maybe she no longer finds them beneficial to her and moves on. Lol. She's not happy unless she's absorbing knowledge. Maybe I just need to change my expectations of her enjoying toys long enough to get our money's worth. Ha!

    DS enjoyed playing with everything but toys (with the exception of Lego!) He was so careful we let him play with all sorts of things (supervised of course). Much cheaper when they enjoy common household items smile

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    Originally Posted by bzylzy
    LOL I prefer the word "typical". How old is your DS? He probably just has really good visual processing (or whatever) skills, maybe a visual-spacial person. It's nice that he's inventive!

    I like your word choice.

    DS is 3. He likes to think outside the box. I know it's good in the long run, but it's a challenge to parent him.

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    To HelloBaby,
    It is really hard to parent outside the box kids. Wait until he goes to school...

    Just think of him as cool even if other people look at him funny sometimes. This can be more easily said than done, I know what I'm talking about. But your relationship with your child is more important than anything else. Like today, I'm so glad it's Friday (no school for two days!) and my DD and I could hang out in the LR with our pets this afternoon and watch silly Disney shows (from Netflix) and look forward to sleeping in tomorrow. She still has her activities and playmates and all of her "brain stuff" but this is important too.

    Have a great weekend!

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    My daughter went through toys really fast at that age too. The trick I figured out is that she would come back around to many of them in a few weeks or months if they disappeared for a while (all except for puzzles -- once she'd mastered a puzzle it lost all interest for her). So I would rotate certain toys in and out of her room as her interest in them waxed and waned. She would play with them differently each new rotation and get new things out of them because she had advanced developmentally since the last time. I should clarify too that we favor classic, open-ended-play kinds of toys here, like LEGO, dolls, blocks, costumes, animals, pretend-play props, etc. Those are the kinds that have longer shelf life, even if it's iterative rather than continuous. That was a tiring age! But it was also a fun age because my daughter was changing so quickly into an interesting little person.

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