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playing sylvanian families with my 15 year old

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hannahsmummsy · 21/07/2011 13:44

im sitting here playing sylvanian families with my 15 year old , should I dispar or just think of all the alternatives a nearly 16 year old could be doing

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coff33pot · 21/07/2011 13:55

As long as your dd is happy then does it matter what she plays? Yes it would be good if your child was "the same" as all others and hoping and thinking doesnt do any good to yourself. I quite often find myself comparing with other children my DS age and now I dont anymore. There is no point and it only ends up in us beating ourselves up about it x

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hannahsmummsy · 21/07/2011 13:59

thanksxxxxx

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drivemecrazy63 · 21/07/2011 14:01

your lucky Smile i'd rather that than be forced (as i find it intolerably boring] to play yugioh or pokemon, and made to fix lego models back together...can we swap please

coff33pot · 21/07/2011 14:33

Ummmm well at the moment I am stomping around the front room to Lady Gaga who my 6yr old DS is nuts about Grin I am also getting some serious frowning going on and hard stares from DS as my grooving is not up to his standard Grin

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hannahsmummsy · 21/07/2011 16:10

thats sweet xxx

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alowVera · 21/07/2011 16:42

I was still playing with silvanians with my best friend when I was 15. Blush

AtYourCervix · 21/07/2011 16:43

i sneak into DD1s bedroom and have a secret reorganise of her neglected sylvanians.

drivemecrazy63 · 21/07/2011 17:07

I used to do that with dd's dolls house arrange all the furniture and plates pots and pans and tiny food and books ect a bit OCD Blush

BakeliteBelle · 21/07/2011 17:35

I'm afraid I'm just plain envious that your 15 year old wants to play something as imaginative as Sylvanian Families! DS1 would just throw them across the room!

davidsotherhalf · 22/07/2011 12:04

can i send my dd(17) to play sylvanian families with your dd? will make a change from lego, dd is upset as she had core assessment sw wrote dd should get rid of lego as she supposed to be 17 not 7!!!!

janetsplanet · 22/07/2011 12:37

my 12yr old DD still plays schools Blush

as long as they happy, we shouldnt complain

wraith · 22/07/2011 20:58

never be surprised at what makes em happy it could always be worse,

(hides the fact that singalongs with hand puppets are still part of life)

purplepidjin · 22/07/2011 21:01

5yo DNiece chews electrical cables Sad wanna swap? (she has asd, it's not that dsil doesn't feed her)

unpa1dcar3r · 24/07/2011 08:46

My non disabled 22 yr old at age 15 was skiving school, smoking dope and drinking, not to mention the thieving whole lists of goodies and writing about me in her diary as being all sorts of awful things and wanting to live with her sperm donor (who didn't want her)....Think the only thing she didn't do was come home pregnant or steal a car!
Sylvanian families sounds like a much nicer option!!!
Smile

(P.S she turned out fab in the end but what a helluva of a time we had then)

Goblinchild · 24/07/2011 08:50

I've been listening to my DS walking me through all the various lego constructions he's been making.
Love what you've got, my friend's DS in the same year has been smoking, drinking, swearing at strangers and partying his arse off since he finished his GCSEs. We are wondering how many functioning brain cells he'll have left for college.

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hannahsmummsy · 24/07/2011 09:20

I am proud of her , she the only altar child at our church (they trained her as she was too big for sunday school and the only teen in our church) shes serving at a confirmation today , she goes to a faith school , most of them got in because they were christerned and certainly dont practice basic principles . the prefects have bullied her to the point she has broken down and needs the chams chrisis team !!.

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unpa1dcar3r · 24/07/2011 09:27

Awww Bless her. And a big fantastic star for being an alter girl. I wouldn't have the guts to stand up and do that. She's very brave! Smile

colditz · 24/07/2011 16:16

Oh pah. I still played with plasticene when I was 15and so did my friends, given half a chance. Young adults only stop playing because they think they are 'supposed' to, it's not from any special level of maturity. We are a playful species.

And good on you for indulging her on this, and not taking them away.

Ineedalife · 24/07/2011 17:19

My 15 yr old Dd2[nt] still plays happily with the playmobil if 8 yr old Dd3[AS] lets her anywhere near it.

I agree with colditz, good on you for keeping themSmile.

Becaroooo · 24/07/2011 20:46

Ahem.

I am 38 and spent many happy hours last week (in a rather damp north yorkshire!) colouring in pictures in my dc's colouring book with them.

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Becaroooo · 24/07/2011 20:47

Ok.

I did.

I was particularly pleased with a vase (?) I coloured in....I made it all stripey!!!

Theas18 · 26/07/2011 11:52

Much ((())) . I have "normal" kids in their teens and they aren't beyond playing with toys sometimes though. My now 18yr old gave us a "turn" when we checked her computer history and found sites entitled "beautiful dolls for you" and similar. I was terrified she was into some odd porn or something but actually they are the computer equivalent of paper dressing up dollies.

If you and she are happy stress not about that part of her life.

Becaroo your child will be cross- you are bound to have done the ones they were "saving for best"!!

Becaroooo · 26/07/2011 11:59

sigh. yes. I got told off Smile

AlysWho · 26/07/2011 16:28

The thing about playing the same game OVER and OVER again, long after it is anywhere NEar age appropriate (mental or chronological!!) is that it is brain numbing! and unstimulating, and for me slightly depressing. So you have my sympathies. x