In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:Those train sets were cheap, the most number of track pieces for the least cash. Subsequent purchases could be the same compatible sets of pieces. For their growing imagination, skill.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
When my niece was about 6, I got her a logic puzzle which can be set into different puzzles. She didn't know what to do and asked me how to solve it. I asked her what she thought she should do and how, and once she finished one, she did an entire set in no time. Her dad, my brother is an Engineer, and he couldn't figure out any of the puzzles she had just done. She seemed to have spurred onward in STEM after that.
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Nice.
Do you have any other suggestions? Preferably anything $20 and under. I'd kind of like to build up a good collection of "smart" toys for her when she comes over. She's still at that age where her imagination can make anything a toy, but she'll probably be growing out of that soon.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I noticed they drew stuff with crayons and stuff, but fill the page/sheet quickly. So I got for each those huge oversized drawing tablets, to eliminate limitations of drawing.
I looked for items light on structure/restriction, heavy on repeatability with innovation.
For when she learns words, I recommend Boggle.
Check the results from "Mensa games rating" search, including Mensa Select. They usually break down the list with ages.
Terrace (think 3D Checkers sorta) was an excellent example of a game which you don't have an advantage because you don't already know it like Chess. And simple rules, based on color and size.
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Hasn't rained yet today but pretty soggy yesterday.
Laundry done for another two weeks.
Work yesterday was okay outside of burning my pinky finger on my right hand. Not serious though but it did hurt.
Also seem to be having problems posting more of my story.
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How's this? The lady that I work for and her husband both think that reading the "Mighty Thor" comic book turned his nephew into a pagan.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
How's this? The lady that I work for and her husband both think that reading the "Mighty Thor" comic book turned his nephew into a pagan.
Wow.
Sometimes I just throw up my hands and think It takes all kinds!
But I am curious, tho. Have you ever met this "pagan" nephew? If you have, does he strike you as a "pagan"? Or does this couple just have an unusually restrictive definition of what it means to be Christian?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
How's this? The lady that I work for and her husband both think that reading the "Mighty Thor" comic book turned his nephew into a pagan.
Wow.
Sometimes I just throw up my hands and think It takes all kinds!
But I am curious, tho. Have you ever met this "pagan" nephew? If you have, does he strike you as a "pagan"? Or does this couple just have an unusually restrictive definition of what it means to be Christian?
Maybe the wife got her MD from Trump University.
Even with the husband being Pastor, most Clergy I've known were not terribly dumb.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Those train sets were cheap, the most number of track pieces for the least cash. Subsequent purchases could be the same compatible sets of pieces. For their growing imagination, skill.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
When my niece was about 6, I got her a logic puzzle which can be set into different puzzles. She didn't know what to do and asked me how to solve it. I asked her what she thought she should do and how, and once she finished one, she did an entire set in no time. Her dad, my brother is an Engineer, and he couldn't figure out any of the puzzles she had just done. She seemed to have spurred onward in STEM after that.
You can also look for games endorsed by MENSA.
Nice.
Do you have any other suggestions? Preferably anything $20 and under. I'd kind of like to build up a good collection of "smart" toys for her when she comes over. She's still at that age where her imagination can make anything a toy, but she'll probably be growing out of that soon.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I noticed they drew stuff with crayons and stuff, but fill the page/sheet quickly. So I got for each those huge oversized drawing tablets, to eliminate limitations of drawing.
I looked for items light on structure/restriction, heavy on repeatability with innovation.
For when she learns words, I recommend Boggle.
Check the results from "Mensa games rating" search, including Mensa Select. They usually break down the list with ages.
Terrace (think 3D Checkers sorta) was an excellent example of a game which you don't have an advantage because you don't already know it like Chess. And simple rules, based on color and size.
Thanks. I'll look into them. She's a smart kid and she's going to a good school. I don't think she gets enough training at home though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
How's this? The lady that I work for and her husband both think that reading the "Mighty Thor" comic book turned his nephew into a pagan.
Wow.
Sometimes I just throw up my hands and think It takes all kinds!
But I am curious, tho. Have you ever met this "pagan" nephew? If you have, does he strike you as a "pagan"? Or does this couple just have an unusually restrictive definition of what it means to be Christian?
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
Hey Sig.
No, I have never met this nephew of his. This came about because I was talking about Stan Lee's passing and he was the creator behind the Thor comic. I explained to the lady why I didn't like the movies because they rewrote the comics.
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Quote:When they're young their brain is a sponge. You can't believe what they absorb.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Those train sets were cheap, the most number of track pieces for the least cash. Subsequent purchases could be the same compatible sets of pieces. For their growing imagination, skill.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
When my niece was about 6, I got her a logic puzzle which can be set into different puzzles. She didn't know what to do and asked me how to solve it. I asked her what she thought she should do and how, and once she finished one, she did an entire set in no time. Her dad, my brother is an Engineer, and he couldn't figure out any of the puzzles she had just done. She seemed to have spurred onward in STEM after that.
You can also look for games endorsed by MENSA.
Nice.
Do you have any other suggestions? Preferably anything $20 and under. I'd kind of like to build up a good collection of "smart" toys for her when she comes over. She's still at that age where her imagination can make anything a toy, but she'll probably be growing out of that soon.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I noticed they drew stuff with crayons and stuff, but fill the page/sheet quickly. So I got for each those huge oversized drawing tablets, to eliminate limitations of drawing.
I looked for items light on structure/restriction, heavy on repeatability with innovation.
For when she learns words, I recommend Boggle.
Check the results from "Mensa games rating" search, including Mensa Select. They usually break down the list with ages.
Terrace (think 3D Checkers sorta) was an excellent example of a game which you don't have an advantage because you don't already know it like Chess. And simple rules, based on color and size.
Thanks. I'll look into them. She's a smart kid and she's going to a good school. I don't think she gets enough training at home though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Get some foreign language tapes, like learning languages. Not Spanish. Like German, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian. Check out some from the library to get an idea, and play them at your house when she's there. To trick her into playing them, maybe get some with music. Finding the used ones at Goodwill or thrift shops are incredibly cheap.
She doesn't need to actually learn the language or be fluent, but absorbing that now will allow her to pick up languages easy, 15 years from now.
The geometry and math involved in the train tracks will trick them into learning in a fun way. The more pieces total will allow them more variety of geometric designs, and encourage them to come up with new or complicated designs. One time I showed up and my 2 nieces had a track set up, not filling the center of the room, but intertwined with the legs, posts, obstacles on 2 sides of the room. With parallel tracks and inner loops, etc.
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And we are back in the rain.
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