This Christmas my son got a slot car set. As a Dad I couldnt be happier. I personally always wanted a slot car set and I’m glad now that I have a son, it gives me an excuse to buy a set. Now I’m building a table for it and plan on adding more track and doing a bigger layout.
Wait. Wasnt that a gift for my son? Well… yeah. The samer as the new video game system and the rod hockey set. he got before.
Ok. Have any of you other parents done the same? Bought your kid a gift but did it secretly in the hope of playing with it yourself?
This year The Nephew got an RC helicopter. It was at their house so I didn’t see it first hand, but the story we were told is that he got it, squeed, and then he stopped short. Made sure his little sister was busy. And gave his father a raised eyebrow. Bro did his best innocent face. The Nephew says his father shouldn’t play poker for bottle caps “but I wouldn’t have gotten it if he hadn’t wanted it, and this way he gets to help me, so it’s all right”.
I don’t have kids. But if I did, I’d buy them a model train set . . . “Z” scale. It’s the really tiny ones, and something I’ve always wanted. Bridges, tunnels, overpasses, steep grades . . . my kid’s gonna love playing with them . . . if he can pry them from my cold, dead hands.
The year we got my five-year-old daughter a Cassio sampler! None of the adults, including me, could keep their hands off it. Recording some random word or sound and then playing scales or songs with it - hilarious and addictive.
Not a parent, but this year I bought my nieces some toys I secretly wanted to play with. Fortunately the girls let me play along. The window markers for the little one and the bracelet maker for the older one were a lot of fun!
When my brother and I used to live in the same city, we had a standing tradition of giving each other toys for Christmas (we were grown). It was so much fun!
I really don’t see why adults can’t buy themselves toys if that’s what they want. (says the woman waiting for her Sea Monkeys to hatch).
True. And certain items like action figures, slot car sets, and toy trains - I even wonder why they are even labeled as “toys” and sold in toy stores since I doubt any kid would want them let alone afford them.
Yeah, there was a bit of this going on when I was putting together the Lego sets for my 3.5 year old son’s Christmas present. Especially picking the pieces for a custom set from the back wall of the Lego store. “Hmm, I’ll probably want a few of these … I mean, he’ll, he’ll probably want a few of these!”
This present was the great migration from Duplos to Legos. So they’re more interesting to me. Unfortunately they’re also a lot more hazardous to the bottom of my feet.
My wife purchased a lot of Legos this Christmas. A set or two for him. A set for me (from the architecture collection). And a set or two for both of us to work on.
My ex-husband always used to buy Lego sets for our son and then put them together himself before giving them. My son had no idea that Legos were meant to come apart, or to build other things besides the picture on the box.
