Thinking about how by a pretty young age I didn't want my parents involved in any of my imagination games (legos, lincoln logs, the beanie baby wars) cause I'd get shamed for any stories or plots or concepts that they viewed as weird or abnormal.
If your young kids don't want to play with you then maybe think about how you might be responsible for that. And if you are invited into or allowed to take part in unstructured games, yes-and their ideas instead of trying to take control.
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like lol, id separate my beanie babies into factions and have them engage in guerilla warfare. Bears were bourgeois. My brother's toy dump truck was used for troop transport. I don't really remember much else lol
Haha yeah it was a real improvise, adapt, overcome strategy for having a hard time getting too many toys considered to be "boys toys" lmao, but it worked out well lol
that's dope af. my brother and I made like an entire beanie baby / stuffed animal extended universe. that and legos were definitely our two main "imagination toys" for a while.
Mine were good for that. When I was drawing (which I can now do quite well) they just got me art supplies, doing Lego sets and playing video games we'd get big sets and do em as a project together and even now I'm 30 and staying with them until.the end of the month when an apartment is opening up for me and we play Mario kart together pretty much every night
Thinking about how by a pretty young age I didn't want my parents involved in any of my imagination games (legos, lincoln logs, the beanie baby wars) cause I'd get shamed for any stories or plots or concepts that they viewed as weird or abnormal.
If your young kids don't want to play with you then maybe think about how you might be responsible for that. And if you are invited into or allowed to take part in unstructured games, yes-and their ideas instead of trying to take control.
I'm sorry you felt this way, but I am deeply curious what the beanie baby wars were, lmao.
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like lol, id separate my beanie babies into factions and have them engage in guerilla warfare. Bears were bourgeois. My brother's toy dump truck was used for troop transport. I don't really remember much else lol
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Kid you sounds extremely cool and i would subscribe to her Telegram to follow the news from the Beanie Baby War frontlines
Haha! It's just not a very warlike toy. I subjected army men to the horrors of war, but beanie babies is much funnier.
Haha yeah it was a real improvise, adapt, overcome strategy for having a hard time getting too many toys considered to be "boys toys" lmao, but it worked out well lol
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that's dope af. my brother and I made like an entire beanie baby / stuffed animal extended universe. that and legos were definitely our two main "imagination toys" for a while.
Mine were good for that. When I was drawing (which I can now do quite well) they just got me art supplies, doing Lego sets and playing video games we'd get big sets and do em as a project together and even now I'm 30 and staying with them until.the end of the month when an apartment is opening up for me and we play Mario kart together pretty much every night