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> The kids' reaction makes perfect sense to me and I grew up with an encyclopedia set in the house. Same, and same, and I don't know why the author ever expect
by bigbillheck 3y ago
> The kids' reaction makes perfect sense to me and I grew up with an encyclopedia set in the house.
Same, and same, and I don't know why the author ever expected anything else. You can't give them a hoop&stick and then complain when they'd rather play with, I don't know, I'm old and childless, some modern toy.
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- cxr 3y ago> I'm [...] childless So it wouldn't be too presumptuous to treat the chances as being very high that you've never given a child the gift of a very large cardboard box.
- bigbillheck 3y agoI never have, but as a child I received a couple, and they're great fun. In this case my thoughts are twofold. First, it sounds like the kids are old enough to be potential users of the encyclopedia, and more importantly old enough to start choosing their own sources, and the way I remember it that's a bit past the age at which a cardboard box holds much excitement. Second, the article has a picture of the box that the encyclopedia came in, and it doesn't really look all that large to me; I've gotten larger ones than that from amazon plenty of times and I would expect the author has as well.