• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Always thought it was a bit of a overplayed trope that little boys love machines, but man does tinyest LOVE a train or a digger. I keep going “Look! a train!” even when I am out by myself.

    Thinking I might take him out to gipsland on a vline this weekend for a cafe or something.

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        1 month ago

        Mine is 13 and hasn’t stopped. Trains occupy up about 50% of his mind. He wants to go back to Melbourne and ride on the trains.

        At least it’s an inexpensive obsession. Some parents have to buy AFL or Pokemon cards.

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      I used to have a mobility scooter that looked a lot like a motorbike.

      My absolute favourite thing about owning this scooter was the response of every little boy who saw me on it. Silent but profound joy

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          It’s like Lego but metal based and mechanical. You can build simple working diggers etc. I did a quick Google and you can still buy this stuff if you want but it’s limited supply as it may have stopped being produced. It’s IMO much better than Lego Technic (which is still awesome).

          So Meccano is legitimately cool for a kid and it teaches how things they love work when they build them. It sounds like your kid and you would love to build something like that together.

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              1 month ago

              Me too. I basically kidnapped my brothers’ Meccano sets. Hours of good clean fun and many bandaids for the cuts you get from the razor sharp edges.

              EDIT: its precise not sharp - still cuts though if you don’t handle it carefully.

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      They seriously do, my boys love watching videos of diggers, cars, and trains. I wish I could take them down Epping Road during the week so they could see all the roadwork going on. They always point to an excavator when they see one and say, ‘Diggy!’

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        1 month ago

        haha mine still calls them “train”. Everything is train. Buses, diggers, planes, trains, tran stations, train tracks. All “train”.

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      1 month ago

      My son absolutely adored this book when he was little.

      We bought him a couple of plushies from it too.

      Definitely do a V line trip. He’ll have a blast. Or Puffin Billy (I think it still operates).

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        1 month ago

        We’ve got something similar! Mr Brick the builder or something like that. cant wait till he is old enough for puffing billy. Not sure whos gonna get more outta that, me or him!

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        Ha! I had this memorised at one point. It was one of the books I could recite if I were putting the kids to bed away from home.