Comments on: Help wanted with 10.75 year old boy http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/ dawn friedman's blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: dawn http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/#comment-6565 dawn Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:00:50 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1759#comment-6565 Not in our budget. What we told him is that we'd match him. He has a paper route so has more disposable income than we do! And we told him that if he came up with half, we'd match the other half. I do think a wii is better than other gaming systems but we're gonna make him work for it! (He bought his own Nintendo DS, too. My brother got him a gameboy last Christmas and he sold it then used his paper route money to trade up to a DS.) Not in our budget. What we told him is that we’d match him. He has a paper route so has more disposable income than we do! And we told him that if he came up with half, we’d match the other half. I do think a wii is better than other gaming systems but we’re gonna make him work for it! (He bought his own Nintendo DS, too. My brother got him a gameboy last Christmas and he sold it then used his paper route money to trade up to a DS.)

]]> By: amaryllis http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/#comment-6564 amaryllis Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:25:52 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1759#comment-6564 in that case, my suggestion is give him a christmas card with a "promissory note" to be redeemed on his birthday for a wii. i say this because i was anti-wii, even when my sister moved in and with it came her wii, and people in my house played and i resisted, and then i played and wow, that is the best indoor exercise you're ever gonna get. and i found out they have educational games as well. i'm not crazy about video games, and am avoiding them for as long as i possibly can, but i confidently promote wii-ness. in that case, my suggestion is give him a christmas card with a “promissory note” to be redeemed on his birthday for a wii. i say this because i was anti-wii, even when my sister moved in and with it came her wii, and people in my house played and i resisted, and then i played and wow, that is the best indoor exercise you’re ever gonna get. and i found out they have educational games as well. i’m not crazy about video games, and am avoiding them for as long as i possibly can, but i confidently promote wii-ness.

]]> By: dawn http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/#comment-6562 dawn Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:19:31 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1759#comment-6562 End of January -- so if we go above and beyond, we hold stuff out 'til then. Although this year all he wants is money and gift cards!! End of January — so if we go above and beyond, we hold stuff out ’til then. Although this year all he wants is money and gift cards!!

]]> By: amaryllis http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/#comment-6563 amaryllis Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:16:37 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1759#comment-6563 when is his birthday?? when is his birthday??

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/29/help-wanted-with-1075-year-old-boy/#comment-6561 Jennifer Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:24:27 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1759#comment-6561 Stilts are awesome! Caleb has two games that are big hits: Blokus and Man Bites Dog. I love Blokus in the same way that I love Tetris (that is, maybe a little obsessively). And Man Bites Dog is a card game in which you get some words and phrases and it's your job to make them into a tabloid-ish headline that somehow makes sense. Stilts are awesome!

Caleb has two games that are big hits: Blokus and Man Bites Dog. I love Blokus in the same way that I love Tetris (that is, maybe a little obsessively). And Man Bites Dog is a card game in which you get some words and phrases and it’s your job to make them into a tabloid-ish headline that somehow makes sense.

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