ive just sat and watched ds4 rip up an inner tube of a loo roll

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.DS4 is very amused and is making a tower aparently..and am sitting thinking wtf? .
There is hundreds of pounds worth of toys games and books in our house...so AIBU to think ive just waisted a lot of money and for his next birthday i shall go all out and get him a inner tube from the kitchen roll?

might even throw in a cereal box !

We take DS to the wildlife park. "Look, DS, a lemur! On Daddy's shoulder! Isn't it beautiful!" Eff off Mum, I'm busy with this stone.

The biggest cardboard box you can get your hands on; always goes down a treat here

its especially annoying when they nag you for months for that perfect toy...only for you to trawl the shops for hours looking for it ... you finally find it , and rush home ,joyously present it to the darling child ...for him to play with the sodding box it came in.

You could really push the boat out for his birthday and give him an extra long tube from inside a roll of wrapping paper

pmsl @ norbertdentressangle.

avril do you do what i do ? take the kids to town sit on bench in pedestrian precinct or park and watch them chase pigons ? Great activity if your skint and cant afford the soft play place that week.

mabey i should rename theis thread ... ways to amuse your child on a budget?.

cruel ? the toddlers are hardley going to tie them to lamp-posts now are they? Now waking everymorning to find pidgon shit on your car windscrean ...thats cruel.

Big box def.

Just sit back with a magazine and be prepared to utter "yes darling, big box" and " that's lovely, baby" now and again.

I had 30 mins of peace once after letting the dc's play with a whole packet of wipes.

It was like a blizzard had hit the living room.