Agreed, on many points, but I will be getting my daughter a mobile when she becomes more independent.
We are lucky to have a very imaginative child. Yes, she watches TV, but then she goes away and puts some of the images and ideas into long and complicated games of her own, or shared with her friends. Her room is a catastrophe of Playmobil, Barbies (ugh) and toy animals, all engaged in five-volume epics.
She loves inventing stories, but isn't able yet to write them down as she wishes. I'm thinking about getting her an MP3 recording device so she can record her stories and bestiary descriptions and so on. (I went to a PNEU school between the ages of 5 and 8 - we dicteted our exam answers for things like history and geography and creative writing and so on, as we were so much more orally articulate at that age than we were capable of expressing ourselves in written form.)
A propos of the telephone, did yours have a white plastic curly wire? Mine did. I used to talk to Captain Kirk quite a lot, I think.
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Date: 2008-09-16 02:05 pm (UTC)We are lucky to have a very imaginative child. Yes, she watches TV, but then she goes away and puts some of the images and ideas into long and complicated games of her own, or shared with her friends. Her room is a catastrophe of Playmobil, Barbies (ugh) and toy animals, all engaged in five-volume epics.
She loves inventing stories, but isn't able yet to write them down as she wishes. I'm thinking about getting her an MP3 recording device so she can record her stories and bestiary descriptions and so on. (I went to a PNEU school between the ages of 5 and 8 - we dicteted our exam answers for things like history and geography and creative writing and so on, as we were so much more orally articulate at that age than we were capable of expressing ourselves in written form.)
A propos of the telephone, did yours have a white plastic curly wire? Mine did. I used to talk to Captain Kirk quite a lot, I think.