Help wanted with 10.75 year old boy
Nov 29, 2007 Parenting
I have no idea what to get Noah for the holidays. That’s not true — I’ve got one major gift and some minors but I’m curious what other kids his age are getting. Maybe you’ve got better ideas than I do! (He made a list it was mostly things he doesn’t play with at all — legos — and things we can’t afford and are unlikely to buy anyway — a wii.)
If you’ve got some thoughts, please share ‘em! Even if it’s not quite Noah-ish, maybe someone else in the same boat will find it helpful!!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
i received your email. i have no suggestions. my son is into hockey, football, psp, ps2, ashley tisdale, old 80s music (ac/dc and queen being at the top of his list). he hasnt given me much of a list either. i am kinda lost myself.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I got Guitar Hero. My son spent Halloween night playing with it at a friend’s house, and it seems like the kind of thing everyone will want to take a turn with on Christmas day.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
we’re going with a nintendo DS (well actually he is supposed to be earning it for good behavior, but it’s not quite working out that way in the time period we thought it would, so it might be a Christmas gift)
And a scooter (but he’s
with hand breaks.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
OMG! you reminded me. My son really wants a KISS concert tee shirt. (I am NOT kidding). Off to hunt the internet…
November 29th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Nick is 10.25, and I’m stumped, too. He wants some kind of video game system but we aren’t getting it. In years past, whatever cool big lego set we bought was a big hit, and that might still be on the list. We decided to take the whole family to Spamalot (shh, don’t tell!) for everyone’s big gift, but I still need something. I did buy him Nancy Farmer’s The Land of the Silver Apples, the sequel to The Sea of Trolls, which we both loved a year or so ago. But I’m still kinda stumped. Sigh.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Toy buying just isn’t as much fun as it used to be. Elliott will receive a K’nex set (it makes the Eiffel Tower! or the Empire State Building!–we bought it over the summer and really, who can remember what it builds)
Getta Letter–from my mom, but I thought I’d buy it anyway, so hooray for me!
A Star Wars model–all the geeky fun with daddy!
and stilts, if we decide we love him enough
Add a few books in the stocking and really, that’s about the size of it.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
when is his birthday??
November 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
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!!
November 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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.)