Imaginations? the fun of it....
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Topic: Imaginations? the fun of it....
Posted By: Bombshell
Subject: Imaginations? the fun of it....
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:22pm
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Ella is at point where her imagination (and mouth) is going on and on and on...and thread in Kindy topics reminded me to post here...
Please tell me that some of your kids (2 and 3 yr olds) have got the ..... "I will be so grumpy if you dont #..." - insert simple action like wtching a dvd that you havent mentioned and would take place once you are out of the car anyways LOL! "My daycare friends dont like me and wont play with me.." (totally false of course) and the imaginary friends - we have little brother and sisters coming out of our ears - let alone the 2 daycare friends who came on holiday with us and I had to toilet and shower etc...not for real but she would tell me they needed it etc....Oh my! Toddlers are put on this earth to make sure our ears and nerves are tested I am sure!!! |
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:28pm
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toby has lots of friends, stuffed animal ones and the ones i cant see... at the moment his bedroom has become his house and he goes home for lunch and theres a road down the hallway but theres lights to cross the road with. thes moring he went to the supermarket and put the bread inhis freezer...
oh i know that technically he isnt a toddler tho. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:35pm
LOL....Deb it doesnt matter he isnt a toddler....just proves that the imagination is fostered for a long time in childhood! LOL!......and UGH! 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:57pm
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Gabrielle doesn't have imaginary friends but is 100% about imaginary play. It is near on impossible to pull her out of her imaginary play for any other types of activities. The scenarios she plays out are sooooo detailed and creative it is quite amazing. I must say I get a little sick of hearing her yelling out to Nori and Nalu in the middle of the night as she tries to rescue them from the seaweed
If she has no dolls on had she will simply name 2 pieces of anything...bark, leaves etc and they play along nicely. Aren't they amazing though! Imagine if we all remained that creative. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 5:09pm
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toby has a great imagination, gabriel not so much.
quite often you will go to get toby from kindy and he will tell you that he is not toby but... cookie monster, the lonely ghost, ben, spiderman... or he walks round with is eyes shut, or pretending to fall asleep. he does that last one at kindy while riding the bikes and apparently the other kids think its hilarious and follow him around watching him pretend to sleep!  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 5:22pm
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Sam likes to say things like "Goodbye, I'm off to the supermarket now to buy lollies" and he'll go around the back of the house and do a poo. (Not on the ground, in a pull-up)
If he doesn't know what something is he will say it's a muffin, or he will make up a word. Yesterday he said pumpkin was a 'kernuffle'. I'm not allowed to make faces, sing, dance or do anything out of the ordinary as I get "Don't do that, it makes Sam sad" followed by a sad put on face. He also dramatically leaps into my arms if he sees a cat, ant, snail etc, whatever he is terrified of at the time. He's my little drama queen. 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 10:07am
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How about this one...I was having a firm discussion with Gabrielle this morning about listening to me and doing what I ask when I ask it.
At the end, I asked to to tell me what she should do when I ask her to do something. Her reply: "Well Mummy, you can't come in my room with a hammer because then it might break and I'll never be happy again. Aaaaand, you can't be a fairy and a mermaid at the same time because it doesn't work like that" Hmmm. Yeap. Right. Ok. Sure. How totally random is that???------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: music_mummy
Date Posted: 30 January 2010 at 9:38pm
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Seems like a perfectly rational response to a serious discussion Fiona
Charlotte got frustrated at me last week when I wouldn't take her car seat straps off her while we were driving home from daycare. When I asked her why she wanted them off she replied "We have to pick up Paige (a friend from daycare) from Neverland so she can come to my birthday party (which isn't for another 10days)" I lover her imagination, it makes her such a little person rather than a baby/toddler. Which is fun but a bit scary too! -------------   
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 2:31pm
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Caleb was trying to initiate a fighting game with a friends boy and I told him to stop now because Daniel didn't like it only to be told 'BUT I LIKE IT!' ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 12:21am
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Samantha put her Daddy in time out the other day for making a silly noise to entertain her brother that she obviously found annoying
He got one warning, then she pointed her finger at him and said, Daddy time out now! Then she got up, led him to the time out space, sat him down and stood there with her hands on her hips glaring at him. Then she told him to say 'Sorry Sam' and gave him a big hug. It was so funny and adorable  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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