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Originally Posted by Shepp
I don't because of the cleanup and other adult responsibilities.
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This!
So often I get it into my head to do some really cool display, but then I start to think about the pain-in-the-ass of cleaning it all up, and even disrupting the already limited space in my collection room, and then I just don't
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My difficulty in playing with the toys with my son is probably a level of complexity (since he's 3) and because I don't want to step on his creativity.
I let him take the lead, and things sort of fall flat in my head because I'm going at the level of Robot Chicken, and he's at the level of a Ninja Turtle teaching Lightning McQueen how to cut salad because Leonardo has a sword.
Nothing wrong with that, its funny and original and surprisingly nurturing. I can't use high adult concepts and swearing and all that during this sort of play. As his level matures, more things will become complex. I walk a fine line. I don't want to push him, and I don't want to stifle him.
Sadly, he'll eventually leave me and this stuff behind.
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My son is 6. The obstacle I often run into with him is that; say he wants me to play with Optimus Prime, he doesn't want me to play with it by doing what I want, he wants me to do what HE wants to do with it, and it all becomes a little like moving someone else's piece around a game board. So it's like he's stifling MY creativity and it just gets boring.
It makes me a little sad because I feel like I've lost something. Something that was very important to me. Being an only child I was on my own most of the time to entertain myself. So my toys were also my companions, which could explain why I have such an attachment to some of them.
It's also a little sad watching my son play, knowing that one day he'll lose it too.