To think my son is going to be a bit of a trainspotter?????????

[harimo]

We went to the South East Show today.. There was a book stall and I told him he was allowed choose one book.

He chose THIS ONE

And then parked his backside on the grass to read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He isn't 2 yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GAH!!!!

Join the club! DS1 who is 2.2 is public transport obsessed - trains especially! Made the mistake once of saying to him before we went to Bluewater that we were going to see choo choo (in ELC I mean!) as I was intending to buy him some wooden train tracks. BIG MISTAKE. The moment we got there, he asked for choo choo non-stop. In the end, I had to drop DH and him off at Greenhithe station so they could take the train 2 or 3 stops, and then the bus, home while I drove home with DS2 in 15 minites.

Enjoy it while he's sweet. My DS6 is like that but is easily lured away with the mention of McD's and cartoon network.

Thats fantastic

You should look on youtube, they have some jolly good videos of steam trains which i am sure the little chap will like

I am SOOOO not telling him about YouTUbe videos of steam trains!!!

Awwww! That's so sweet.

Dont be cruel to the little fellow.There is nothing wrong with steam trains,
Just because you dont like them, dont be miserable
HE IS A BOY AND BOYS LIKE STEAM TRAINS
Dont tell me you are not going to let him watch Thomas the tank engine

awwww
its nice for them to be interested in that kind of thing. mine is a plane spotter rather than train spotter, and keen on fire engines but its nice like rather than a baby interest it seems like proper little boy interests iyswim?

Think yourself lucky...my DS (nearly 18mths) happily sits and reads the dictonary for 20minutes at a time (no pictures, just pages of words)

He is bl**dy ADDICTED to Thomas the Tank Engine!! Addicted, I tell you.

This latest move is a worrying twist from steam engines with faces / personalities to proper grown up trains which are numbers which have to be written, methodically, in a little note book.. while standing on a cold railway eating some suspicion looking sandwiches

at bounty007!!!

cant stop laughing at this...I have the feeling a little geek is brewing in this house too

Nothing wrong with steam trains. They are proper. Wrong starts when they are too interested in freight. I know this.

What's wrong with freight???? (I'm honestly not sure I want to know the answer to this, but it's like rubber-necking - you know you shouldn't, but you do... nonetheless!!)

To be fair, there are many worse things in life than geeks, Bounty007... as long as they are happy, eh????

I live on the west coast mainline and often take DS down to the station to see the trains passing and have a coffee at the cafe!!

I have three trainspotters in the house DH volunteers here and we are members so go very regularly.

DS is 22 months and went on his first steam train at 3 weeks and normal train at 8 weeks and now I am on ML with DD we try and get the train once a week

DD is 9 weeks and had her first steam train ride at 5 weeks, but her first normal train at 4 days.

Embrace it, DH does catering on the Bluebell and DS and I tagged along on a fish and chip train and a sausage and mash train as well as getting cheap tickets for Santa Specials.

Surely is better than an Xbox etc

Oooh... I nearly went there today!

do go, its lovely. they are extending into east grinstead too, so will soon have views and shopping!!

Women are odd. I have a good mind to report this cruelty to the appropriate people.
You should buy the little fellow a kagool, flask, notebook etc and let him enjoy one of the more innocent joys of life
Im my single days many years ago I went on the trans siberian express across the Soviet Union ( 8 days from start to finish) so if the little chap as any questions tell him to get in touch and dont take away one of a little boys basic human rights

I went there on Fri for DS's birthday. He'd have chosen that book, too, Harimo! He's a total rail geek. I've customised so many wooden engines for his Brio track (he wanted 'real' ones) that he's practically got the National Collection

harimo in a year or 2 you will be out in the cold standing beside some train tracks with your DS, while I sit watching countdown over and over, both dying of boredom .... don't you just love these funny little creatures!

lol

my DS is a trainspotter too. He is 7 now and likes to buy train magazines with his pocket money

Still, it's better than not being interested in anything...

LMAO at Jason - his birthday is coming up in a month or so.. You've sorted out a list of what relatives can get him ... Please don't report me. I don't think I could cope with the RMT on my back!

The one I really feel sorry for is my poor 9MO DD... Who has to endure hours and hours of train watching / fawning when all she really wants to do is play with her dora-doll. She'll be reporting me to the relevant authorities when she realises what's been going on!!!

Another trainspotter ds here in our house.
If you are in London, might I recommend St Pancras for an excellent selection of modern trains - javelin, Eurostar, suburban rail?

It is a nice little hobby for them really and ds spends hours every day playing with his train set and doing train ish things.

He has now taken to checking service updates online and at just under age 5, this is working wonders both for his reading and PC skills

He gets so excited about going on trains and actually if dh and I wanted some peace and quiet our best bet would probably be to go on a long train journey.

Youtube has some good videos of trains but do listen/ watch them first before leaving ds with them unsupervised as one or two we have had on have had swearing by the over-excited trainspotters in them

Bount007 - I fear you are right. Atleast you will be warm....

Ds looked like he might end up being a trainspotter at one point. He does still like trains, but they have been surpassed a bit by fire engines and then LIFEBOATS! He now has an encyclopaedic knowledge of lifeboats, and whenever we go anywhere near the coast we have to visit the nearest lifeboat station.

He recently won a competition in "Storm Force News" (the magazine for the children's lifeboat club) for visiting the most lifeboat stations last summer and writing about them.

harimo, look on the bright side. He'll be so keen to know when trains are due that he'll learn to tell the time from timetables...