natalie
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If they are 6-12 years old they are old enough to make the toy themselves with just a bit of parental guidance. If you've got the room for it you can make a cardboard castle with a washing machine box (appliance stores are happy to get rid of them) or multiple boxes bolted together. You can use half used cans of whatever paint is in the basement to paint them. Older kids could use a utility knife to cut windows. I've seen this done with a refrigerator box, opening up the box so it could be stored flat and have it set up like a staggered storefront.
You could have them build a puppet theater and make puppets from old spare socks and buttons, fabric scraps, etc. The kids could write a script and reall plan a show.
you can do at home science experiments (get a book on ideas, but one is to pour some vinegar into an empty water bottle, fill a balloon up with a little baking soda with a funnel, carefully attach the balloon to the neck of the bottle, keeping the baking soda end flopped over so the baking soda doesn't fall in, then lifting the baking soda end up so the baking soda falls into the vinegar, causing a big fizzy mess and making the balloon inflate from the gas produced. Hope that made sense.
You can make rag dolls.
Kids that age are often interested in cooking; teach them to cook. Not a toy, but something to keep them busy and fun to do for kids.
If they are 6-12 years old they are old enough to make the toy themselves with just a bit of parental guidance. If you've got the room for it you can make a cardboard castle with a washing machine box (appliance stores are happy to get rid of them) or multiple boxes bolted together. You can use half used cans of whatever paint is in the basement to paint them. Older kids could use a utility knife to cut windows. I've seen this done with a refrigerator box, opening up the box so it could be stored flat and have it set up like a staggered storefront.
You could have them build a puppet theater and make puppets from old spare socks and buttons, fabric scraps, etc. The kids could write a script and reall plan a show.
you can do at home science experiments (get a book on ideas, but one is to pour some vinegar into an empty water bottle, fill a balloon up with a little baking soda with a funnel, carefully attach the balloon to the neck of the bottle, keeping the baking soda end flopped over so the baking soda doesn't fall in, then lifting the baking soda end up so the baking soda falls into the vinegar, causing a big fizzy mess and making the balloon inflate from the gas produced. Hope that made sense.
You can make rag dolls.
Kids that age are often interested in cooking; teach them to cook. Not a toy, but something to keep them busy and fun to do for kids.
6 year old wetting herself?
Nisha N
My daughter will be 6 in june. She has been potty trained since 21/2. Since starting kindergarten at almost 4 she started wetting herself. Not at home. A year now she also started wetting herself at home. She has a 3 year old and a 11/2 year old sisters. She doesn't seem to care that she wets herself. I make her change her sheets and her clothes herself. She seems to rather play or watch tv than take 2 min and go to the bathroom. She's been to the dr and anything medical was ruled out. She wets herself and tells no one. Only when we ask her then she will say. We have to constantly tell her to go to the bathroom. We never had to do this before. She wears pull ups at night now cause of the constant wetting and i have started waking her up 2 times at night. She gets nothing to drink and the dr put her on " minirin" to help with the night wetting. don't seem to be working. She is a very emotional, sensitive, shy child but very smart. I have tried ignoring it...see if she would stop.. i tried talking endlessly asking why she does it but she always say she don't know. I have taken away toys. Nothing works. I asked her if she is scared of the toilet or is it too big or small with the home and kindergarten toilet. She knows how to use it and never had a problem before. I need help. She is starting school in August and i am getting worried. Why is this happening?
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Sometimes kids go through what people call a back slide. they feel llike they aren't getting enough attention with siblings around, and they do things like that so that they can get the attention that they crave. My 4 year old tells me all the time that he wants to be a baby again like his new brother and when I ask him why he tells me because he wants me to treat him like a baby with the cuddling and the kisses, SO I started treating him like a baby, when he wanted something to drink I gave it to him in a bottle, when he told me that he can't drink out of a bottle he wanted his cup I told him big boys get cups babies get a bottle, he quickly said he was a big boy and didn't mention wanting to be a baby again. Another thing that it could be and I know that this may sound impossible, it sexual abuse. I was molested when I was a baby and then after I was adopted my adopted father molested and raped me from 7 until almost 15 when I was taken from them, I wet the bed as a sort of defense mechanism, my doctor said, like My subconcious thought if I was dirty then it wouldn't happen anymore, I wet the bed until a year after I was taken away and then I felt safe and stopped completely! I know that may not be the answer you were looking for but that is a classic. I am sure that it isn't your daughter's issue but you may want to look at all possiblities especially if the doctor says that it isn't a medical condition like a small bladder or an over active bladder!!
Sometimes kids go through what people call a back slide. they feel llike they aren't getting enough attention with siblings around, and they do things like that so that they can get the attention that they crave. My 4 year old tells me all the time that he wants to be a baby again like his new brother and when I ask him why he tells me because he wants me to treat him like a baby with the cuddling and the kisses, SO I started treating him like a baby, when he wanted something to drink I gave it to him in a bottle, when he told me that he can't drink out of a bottle he wanted his cup I told him big boys get cups babies get a bottle, he quickly said he was a big boy and didn't mention wanting to be a baby again. Another thing that it could be and I know that this may sound impossible, it sexual abuse. I was molested when I was a baby and then after I was adopted my adopted father molested and raped me from 7 until almost 15 when I was taken from them, I wet the bed as a sort of defense mechanism, my doctor said, like My subconcious thought if I was dirty then it wouldn't happen anymore, I wet the bed until a year after I was taken away and then I felt safe and stopped completely! I know that may not be the answer you were looking for but that is a classic. I am sure that it isn't your daughter's issue but you may want to look at all possiblities especially if the doctor says that it isn't a medical condition like a small bladder or an over active bladder!!
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