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asauer

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Baby Badasses
« on: December 03, 2015, 11:11:27 AM »
The other day I asked my kids what they wanted for Christmas.  They're not greedy kids but there is usually a sizable list.  My daughter said she wanted a dress for her dress up box and my son wanted a toy battleship.  I asked if there was anything else and they both said "eh, no.  I'd rather do things than have things."  My head almost exploded.  So proud of my baby mustachians!

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2015, 12:38:42 PM »
:) that's positive to read.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2015, 01:31:54 PM »
That's awesome man! We are currently pregnant with our first child and our parents already want to buy them every toy known to man (15 weeks in).  I've told them to im blue in the face that we dont want them to have a bunch of stuff.  They just can't comprehend where we are coming from.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2015, 06:37:28 PM »
That's great OP. How old are they?

That's awesome man! We are currently pregnant with our first child and our parents already want to buy them every toy known to man (15 weeks in).  I've told them to im blue in the face that we dont want them to have a bunch of stuff.  They just can't comprehend where we are coming from.

Your parents probably want to feel helpful too. When our babies were born, our parents helped with a crib for our daughter and a double stroller when our son came along. My parents also bought clothes. We just encouraged them to buy things that would actually be useful to us. Now that the kids are a bit older (1.5 and 3), we do encourage people to stick to clothes and books, art supplies, or experiences (museum passes, etc). Toys still make it in though!

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2015, 05:19:04 AM »
That's great OP. How old are they?

That's awesome man! We are currently pregnant with our first child and our parents already want to buy them every toy known to man (15 weeks in).  I've told them to im blue in the face that we dont want them to have a bunch of stuff.  They just can't comprehend where we are coming from.

Your parents probably want to feel helpful too. When our babies were born, our parents helped with a crib for our daughter and a double stroller when our son came along. My parents also bought clothes. We just encouraged them to buy things that would actually be useful to us. Now that the kids are a bit older (1.5 and 3), we do encourage people to stick to clothes and books, art supplies, or experiences (museum passes, etc). Toys still make it in though!

Oh, I def get it!  For us, at 30 years old we are in a much better place financially than our mid 50 year old parents.  I'd much rather see them use their money for things that matter rather disposable items.  My mother would now like to go part time so she can travel more to see us (who are we kidding, the baby), but I don't think they will be able to financially. 

I love the mentality of the OP's children though! The fact that they would rather experience something than have something is amazing!

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2015, 08:38:34 AM »
They're both 8 years old

That's great OP. How old are they?

That's awesome man! We are currently pregnant with our first child and our parents already want to buy them every toy known to man (15 weeks in).  I've told them to im blue in the face that we dont want them to have a bunch of stuff.  They just can't comprehend where we are coming from.

Your parents probably want to feel helpful too. When our babies were born, our parents helped with a crib for our daughter and a double stroller when our son came along. My parents also bought clothes. We just encouraged them to buy things that would actually be useful to us. Now that the kids are a bit older (1.5 and 3), we do encourage people to stick to clothes and books, art supplies, or experiences (museum passes, etc). Toys still make it in though!

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2015, 01:16:08 PM »
Love this! Congrats on winning at parenting :)

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2015, 12:34:08 PM »
Nice! My (4 year old) son is definitely not being frugal this year. He chose expensive pieces of plastic "Minions" crap on his wishlist, despite our many attempts to convince him that more durable and less expensive toys made of wood would be better for him.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2015, 03:35:30 AM »
When our daughter was three, she's now five, she asked for a plant with flowers for Christmas. She has been very responsible with watering it (with reminders), and we looked up how to take care of it. We gave her money, and she the fertilizer herself. It's been great.

Last year was the most consumerist Christmas when she asked for an Elsa dress. This year she asked for ocean books and little ocean figures from us, and wants a mermaid doll from Santa. I asked her if she wanted anything else, and she said that when we back to NJ (we're currently living in Germany until February) she wants to go see the new microbe exhibit at the New York Natural History Museum.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2015, 02:20:26 PM »
I asked my 2.5 year old daughter what she wanted for Christmas and she said  'to decorate the Christmas tree' In all fairness though, I don't think she remembers presents... Or Santa.

I suspect this will be the last year before consumerism sets in.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2015, 02:30:37 PM »
Awesome kids!

Mine are 3 and 4. We wrote letters to Santa and they asked for just the weirdest things that came to mind, like "a star lizard" (he has a Beanie lizards and star Beanie bear--apparently he wants to combine them?) and "a red regular Boo-Boo" (Boo-Boo is the other one's purple Beanie bear, who is apparently the wrong color).

Santa is bringing them mostly Star Wars underpants and art supply storage.

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Re: Baby Badasses
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2015, 03:12:00 PM »
I asked my 2.5 year old daughter what she wanted for Christmas and she said  'to decorate the Christmas tree' In all fairness though, I don't think she remembers presents... Or Santa.

I suspect this will be the last year before consumerism sets in.

My daughter was about 3.5 when she made the connection between holidays and largess. She ended up having several different "Christmas" days that year because of spreading visits with family over December, and that probably contributed to it. By the last one, she ripped all the wrapping paper off everything and then wept because she had no more presents to unwrap.

...to be fair, it turned out that she wasn't an insatiable greedhead, she just really liked unwrapping things. We designated her the Family Unwrapping Helper and that seems to have solved the problem.