"...can only eat if you sing to him."
I'm struggling to believe it...but part of it reckons it could be true given the rubbish some parents come out with these days.

Either way, I'm going to click it because it made me laugh. Did you ever get to play in the sandpit in the end?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 12:08, 1 reply)

Got to play with it but not as long as I wanted......
I had a chance to play with a water wheel type object and also a sieve.

It ended earlier than I wanted it to as my missuis told me I had to act my age for once.

Spoilsport.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 12:17, closed)

I would have argued
that it's important to play with your children.

_{Not in that way, you sick bastard}
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 12:24, closed)

I would have but..
It was hard to use that excuse, my kid was outside in the playground on the slide with his mates (He knew them from nursery.

I was just dicking about on my own.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 12:30, closed)

In which case
I would argue that...um...you think it would be a stimulating and educational toy for bison jnr and you're just testing it for exactly those purposes. Not just because your inner child misses playing in sandpits.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 12:35, closed)

Dammit
I will use that next time I find myself in a similar situation.

My daughter is due to start at the same school in January so I hope it will be then.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 13:00, closed)

when you take her
wear shorts and bring a bucket and spade. keep looking longingly towards the sandpit.make little squeeky noises. then when the teacher is in the middle of her talk, just slowly edge away until you are sat in the sandpit. then build some castles and a moat so no one can take you out.
(danglesmurf, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 8:29, closed)

The humble sieve
is a massively underrated plaything.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 11:56, closed)