When my little brother, born in 1979, was 2 or 3 years old, he was fascinated with keys. He was constantly taking (and losing) the car keys and loved to hold, play and I'm sure chew them. He also loved to drive the car, which I remember him doing to our horror at least once. (Remember, we have to warm up the car in Canada and on at least one occasion, dad dashed in to get some forgotten item and Andrew threw the car in neutral, but we lived in a hill-like driveway, which caused him and his frantic sis. in the car to suddenly dart into the busy street). Well, the fascination with keys is not near what it used to be. Ivan has toy keys and has taken them to try our locks (this amazed me, since we haven't conciously taught him this). But this is not his real fascination.
The real attraction for kids of every age is now... can you guess it?
Phones! He loves his toy phones and our real ones, but if neither of these are available, it really doesn't matter. He's substituted all sorts of toys, remote controls and even keys to play phone. But perhaps the funniest was when he used a wet washcloth as a telephone. I guess he had an urgent call to make and what else should you use when you're all wet in the tub with few resources, the frog tub toy? So he chatted with who knows who on his soggy cloth cell phone while mom strolled down memory lane recalling her brother's fascination with keys and wondering where the time has gone.
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Would have loved a picture of that washcloth phone, but who has a camera handy in the bathroom when you need it?
Right?
Another up and coming fascination will be computers and those palm pilot thingys.
how cute! abbey was like that about phones! a banana...a spoon...hairbrushes. I love imagination in kids!
Aidan has had the same fascination with phones. It has proved educational too as he grew more talkative and we could understand that he was phoning people and telling on us. "gramma papa is bad he said no." etc.
Now he will tell his toys in fornt of us even about all the injustices of how he gets treated by us, the killer is he is so surprised when we respond and he is almost indignant that we were listening in on his private complaint session with the stegasaurus.
they open a new world don't they?
Andrew
I don't remember that I liked phones or not. I am not even sure if we had one. (We might had but I never saw it when I was young.) Mom says we liked to play with wooden toys like zoo animals and cubes to build towers. It might be that it's all about the cultural thing because as far as I remember you don't have to much of the wooden toys, right?
Andrew- that is hillarious! I guess it's a sign of our times. Kids reveal what our society is into and right now it's phones. I'm guessing they reveal a lot to us if we are willing and able to hear their not so subtle messages.
Andrea- Ivan has a wooden train set, but I know a lot of kids don't. It's a shame wooden and more simple toys are not as valued here. It seems the toys are very advanced and technological, but leave less room for the imagination. Even legos come with elaborate set-ups to create!
Harrison too loves the phone and has used strange objects to make those important calls, including the TV remote! BEWARE: keep the real maccoy out of his reach, as my lil monkey dialed 911 before we even saw him w/ the phone!!!! PS~ the police take toddler calls very seriously and showed up at our door in full force...2 at the front and 2 at the back!!! We now keep the phone well out of reach!!!
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