So I know there are a bunch of other parents on here and thought about creating this thread a while back. A place for everyone to post toys/games their kids have that are worth buying, or also things that suck and don’t waste the money on…lol.
It seems like there are so many toys out there for kids and they want EVERYTHING.
Post up the toys, price and pass/fail on the toy.
For Xmas we got our 3yr old son Hexbugs V2 (~$40), very cool and not too expensive. You build different tracks and these little robotic bugs climb across, vertical (up and down) through simple vibrations. You can even put them on hard surface floors throughout the house and let them go crazy. My son sneaks them through my office door and I will have 4 or 5 cruising around my office.
We also recently got him the Hot Wheels Triple Track Twister ($30 on sale), he loves it so far. There is a set of three tracks and two handles you pull to control where the cars go. You can put almost any hot wheels car on the track and there is a cross-over section where they smash.
Trying to find something new for the summer, we have a decent size open backyard and this looks like it could be some fun.
If you don’t have any of these and are raising a child, you suck and deserve to be stabbed in the dick.
Also, video games, as much fun as they are, ARE not acceptable “toys” for children. Toys should promote imagination and get kids playing outside or with other children…in person.
Yes, we have all the classics…Play-doh, legos, blocks, action figures, etc. I guess this is more “newer” gen toys that have come out. I totally agree about the whole video games too, my son has played our Wii a handful of times but only with us. Too many parents turn video games into substitute baby sitters, not cool.
Play should really be about imagination, reason we have an 18 foot pirate ship in our backyard…lol.
My kid is lego crazy right now, even before we took her to the lego movie.
By far the thing we bought that has had the most fun with was the trampoline.
In fact she loves it so much I’ll probably upgrade to a bigger one soon. I got this little 8’ back in spring of 2010 and it’s held up great. With the legs off and the enclosure down it’s about 5" thick so I store it indoors in the winter hanging from my garage ceiling by giant hooks I bought from harbor freight. My friend with a much bigger one takes his down each fall to store it inside. They don’t hold up well to WNY winters.
Her bday is the end of this month and we’re getting her another bike as the big gift. Between skiing, biking and swimming she’s way more active than a lot of kids her age. One of the parents we’re friends with was telling us how excited she was last year her son (in my daughter’s class) could ride his bike around the block a few times without training wheels at the end of the summer. I didn’t have the heart to tell her Jillian and I were doing 8+ mile rides by the end of summer.
Yeah. Every kid should really have a trampoline. with a few people they can be set up in 15 minutes. We’ve frequently dismantled a friends to bring it down to the inner harbor:
If my pool was bigger I’d love to set it up near the pool. Being only 12x24 with a small deep end that just seems like a disaster waiting to happen though.
Speaking of, bought this last year:
I thought it was going to go over better than it did. She loved it for a couple days then hardly used it. Other kids who come over to swim love it so your mileage may vary. I has a hose attachment with two sprinklers at the top to keep the slide wet but I got sick of dumping cold water in the pool all the time and spent $15 in PVC parts to add a hose attachment with a shut off to my filter return line. Now I can circulate pool water over the slide and never worry about cooling off the pool or over filling it.
Our son has a small trampoline but waiting for him to get a little bigger to get a full-sized one. We tried out the one with Vuly trampolines with the leaf springs, thing was crazy.
He also got this for xmas from the in-laws but yet to set it up, he loves Bounce Magic and SkyZone.
Good friend of mine bought a huge bounce house thing for his kid the same time I got our trampoline. The bounce house is cool but you can’t really leave it up and constantly taking it down and putting it up is a pain so it doesn’t get used much.
