Simple joys of babies / my one year old grandson

What a Nice discussion it is, I don't have any Childrens, But I have 2 nephew & 1 Niece, & Of course, they do same like you mention in your posts, they wanna playing with water lol, we have a large terrace, when we start washing they came & play in water & pipe & throw water to each other, its a naughty game but child are child, The First Reply of Your Discussion, I guess deserve to be "Mark as a Best Response" its because i got a very nice message & moral "Simplicity is Won" in last I am Sorry for my weak English, have a nice day & keep sharing your thoughts.

Yes, I am a big proponent of simplicity and I think that more children today need to have the opportunity to play outdoors and invent their own toys. Unfortunately in the state the world is in today that is not safe for people in many places.

You are quite right. I made such kind of mistake in the past. When my child was still a baby, I couldn't help buying him expensive toys. But actually he preferred to play with some very simple stuff and found it fun. The price will never be a measure to judge the toys for the children. So today I learned from it. I will buy some toys which are worthy and he will be interested in it rather than I like it. I love China

I discovered the same thing when my daughter was a toddler. An expensive toy would be pushed aside and its packaging would be the toy of the day! I think that it proves that children’s’ needs are not as complicated as we may make them out to be; simple toys and a great deal of love is all they need. I am certain your little grandson is a pure delight!

Hi kala, hope you are enjoying with your grandchild. You are right kala, children are like that, they are so innocent they does not know even that is a broom stick or slippers they try to play with all the objects because everything is new and surprise things to them. But i am very careful when i give toys to them, very choose toys i used to give, now he grown up to 6 years now he come to know what is what. Still he like to play with the toys but with different toys and ask whenever we go out most of the time he want us to buy cars and plans etc., Hope you and your family doing good. Have a wonderful day kala.

I like children's smile. after the age of 2years the kids are playing with toys, that is really a cute scene. I like it.

Hi Kala ! A toddler will grab everything Which comes his way because he wants to see, touch, feel and explore new things. His joy and innocence lie with anything which he Could get hold of.

My grandson likes to go to the kitchen and rearrange my vessel stand. I dont know why he likes to change the whole pattern whenever he comes. I have noticed that he keeps the things the way his mother keeps it in their house. So all my plastic boxes go out of the stand because they are supposed to be kept up where his hand does not reach and the vessels from under the cooking platform go to the stand. And after his every visit I have to rearrange the stand as per my preference. This Diwali when he visited he was more fascinated by the chocolate boxes that I had bought so my vessel stand was spared!!! And I was spared the trouble of rearranging everything again. Till his next visit. He does not bother so much for the fancy toys that I buy for him. In fact I forcefully put it in his bag while he is going because he does not even sometimes bother about the toys that are bought for him.

True Kala, this discussion reminds me of what I used to do when my kids were small. I never threw the broken toys, instead I collected them and had a basketful of them. I took them out periodically and my children were happy and busy playing with them for hours. Even if our friends with small kids visited, they also enjoyed more to play with those broken toys rather than the new oneshis is . This is the simplicity in kids which I guess we elders make them complicated.

Oh yes, the innocent babies thought those simple or trash things are wonderful ones. I remember my youngest son loves to play anything that is round. He likes to keep it rolling when he was more than a year old. Whenever he saw a round vegetables he will ask for it and thought it's a very good toy and keep it rolling like a ball. Sometimes he will pull his sisters button and want to take it off to play Oh kids...soooo innocent and cute.

Any complicated toy would still seem like broken plastic or whatever and handling the real broken plastic would be easy on the child. I had this nephew who could not sleep without hugging a sheet that smelt bad.He would play with one corner of the sheet with his two fingers until he dozed off. He wanted it at any cost and would not want any other. There is nothing simple about it but a fad according to me.

How true, kalav!!!! I enjoyed watching my kids play with empty carton boxes, sticks found in the park(not really recommended, but they enjoyed it soooo much), bits of stones that they've picked up in the park, leaves, flower petals, etc....We have bought them lots of toys, and the grandparents showered them with toys....as you can imagine, our house is littered with toys everywhere. Even with all those toys, they love the simple things. I guess the moral here is that Simplicity won. I mean, let's face it, all of us enjoyed being kids. As we get older, things get more complicated and more responsibilities; we forgot the most enjoyable things are just simple things.

My small brother used to preserve all his broken cars,toys etc in his child hood. Of course now also he had them with him even he passed his 12th standard. We used to scold him but sometimes they gives us our childhood memories..