Have you created a monster?

Yes... you've put me in mind of when I was living in Germany. Christmas was approaching and I spotted this little Casper the Ghost doll. It hung on a sring and when you pulled the feet, allienating the body from the head, it spoke, as the body travelled back up the string to the head. I bought it for my eldest son for Christmas. It used to repeat these phrases... "Hi, I'm Casper", "I'm a Friendly Ghost", "Will you be my friend?", "Will you play with me?", "Let's play Ghosts!", "BOO, oooh, I scared myself". Well, I thought it was kinda cute, anyway! That toy was so loved, it was with my kids until they were grown, when it was passed to my young nephew. It had such an effect that my grandchildren are total Casper fans. They go to see every movie, have all the videos, and it's been passed on down the line. I don't know what ever happened to the doll; whether my nephew still has it now he's thirty, or whether he's passed it on to his nieces or nephews, but I will never forget picking up that Casper doll in the shop! lol. Brightest Blessings, my friend.

I grew up being too dependent on my grandmother so I taught my son to be independent but now he is so independent he will never listen to anything anyone else thinks and does his own thing

Does feeding chocolate to an infant nephew who grows up to LOVE chocolate count?

Well I don't have kids so I'll give examples of my own life. Okay Number one: when I was five and a half years old as a Christmas present my mother got me my first kitty...uh...I don't think I need to tell you how that went...have had cats ever since. Number two: I used to watch my mother paint in oils when I was a kid. Curious I asked if I could paint in oils. To "amuse" me, she gave me one of her old canvas boards and some extra paints she wasn't using....I painted my first oil painted at the mere age of six....on and off have painted ever since all my life--thing is, I had "ruined" my mother being in the "spotlight" with her painting since I did my oil painting so young...don't think she ever forgave me that Probably others I could list, right now have brain fog....LOL

I didn 't, but my ex-boyfriend had an ADHD kid and he bought him a video game. About 100 videogames later. . .. "What did I get myself into?" Problem was, he was addicted to them, too.

Since I don't have any kids, I'll talk about MY parents. lol The answer is, OHHHHHH yes!! I loved Raggedy Ann and Andy so much that mom had bought everything that had them on it, bed sheets, blankets, bedspread, coat hanger, trash can, all the different sized dolls, floor rug, pictures galore and so much more! I had it all! lol My brothers got the same treatment but I don't remember what exactly they liked. I think one brother liked Winnie the pooh but I'm not sure on that.

Someone may have done this to me, because I can remember being convinced at four years old that Santa could bring me an elephant. I would not take any logic like we did not have a place to keep it. I finally got a stuffed one for my birthday. Not even realistic. Mom bought it with her green stamps.

Books! Yep books, I have always loved to learn and loved to read and and so read to my children from they were in the womb and made sure from babies they had books all around - both are no obsessed with books, learning and asking questions of the same thing from 1,000 directions! lol Not a bad thing though! xxx

The number of times I've wanted to kick myself (or someone else) for doing exactly that is too many to count. The most recent example is a guest here who started playfighting with my toddler to keep him amused for ten minutes. Now I have a small child likely to karate chop you in the back of the knee when you're least expecting it. Fabulous - just what I need!

Hi Elic, No, not me as I have no children, but I remember my dad brought a toy bike for my brother and he grow up liking bikes and from there it was cars and became a machinic. Tamara

i bought a sponge bob for my son as it was his birthday, it was a big soft toy in the form of sponge bob as he likes the cartoon on Nickelodeon very much, and let me tell you he loves that thing! any store we pass by with a sponge bob shirt or stuffed toy or action figure even the slippers and boxers he would want. he was so obsessed with sponge bob that even his bedsheets and pillow cases are sponge bob. he even begged me to make the wall paper in his room sponge bob but i refused. he thinks im punishing him when all im trying to do is to make his room look less scary. the sponge bob eyes are everywhere i don't know how he can sleep at night with so many eyes in the form of sponge bob. oh speaking of which he sleeps with a night light and his night light is a sponge bob night light. thank god his pajamas are not sponge bob i will not allow that to happen he's gone sponge bob crazy. cheers mate.

I think I may be creating a little monster! My seven year old daughter was picked on at school by one other kid and to help her deal with it I bought her a book about assertiveness training and building self esteem for her to work through. Well now, most things I say and do are followed by a comment,for example, "Now mummy you know you are responsible for your own feelings, it's not my fault" or "No point reacting with anger Mummy it is not a useful response..." It's driving me crazy! What's even more annoying is that all the quotes she's reeling off are absolutely correct!

I am not a parent so I realy can't comet on this one. but I would say that something like that could happen. I think when I was a young child my dad let me watch a afternoon movie on tv. The movie was the "The Time Machine" the 1960 version by Gorge Pal. He had told me that the movie was of the Science Fiction type and after I saw it, I think it started my life long intrest in sci-fi, hence my screen name here.