We had a wonderful Sunday filled with family fun. A visit to the Science Museum (DH and I have lived in Boston for almost 10 and this was our first visit!), shopping together (wonderful to see Amie interact with strangers in the store), building and flying paper airplanes (from this wonderful book), reading books and playing with animals.
At the end of the long and tiring day, Amie sat down on the floor and spontaneously took some quiet time. She opened her arts and crafts box and cut pieces of paper (with her ziggy-zaggy safety scissors), colored them, and glued them to a page.
I had nothing to do with it! It was one of those rare and harmonious moments when everyone was doing something exclusively by him/herself.
Part of our shopping today involved a certain do-it-yourself-hardware store, where I found a couple of simple binding posts with screws, like so (couldn’t even find a picture of it on Google Images!):
… So that I could finally assemble our “Bambi,” which we cut out of recycled cardboard and painted a while back.
It’s a pull toy! It just took me a while to get sturdy enough fasteners, and these binding posts are very cheap, strong and reusable!
I think we’ll make more of these, if Amie likes it – she certainly did look forward to this one. I’ll have to get the hang of coordinating and weighting the limbs and whatnot needs to get moved by one pull, because this baby Bambi moves even clumsier than the newborn one in the movie!
More about having actually watched Bambi later…
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Hi Thhaam
you mean this article It’s a bit short on the specifics and on reasons, but in general I subscribe to that kind of parenting style.
I found a whole bunch of great parenting articles on the Hand in Hand website.