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Are there plumbing pages where people teach their children to plumb, or dry-walling speciality sites where folks discuss how to get their kids into plasterwork?
by patio11 14y ago
Are there plumbing pages where people teach their children to plumb, or dry-walling speciality sites where folks discuss how to get their kids into plasterwork?
That sort of thing is quite popular with Boy Scouts and the like. You can get a special magazine for fun father&son activities like The Joy of Spackle. Totally not joking.
- mechanical_fish 14y agoI gave my niece a toy, which she reportedly loved, in which you build little hydraulic systems out of toy pipes. http://www.fatbraintoys.com/search.cfm?q=%20bridge%20street%20toys%20girder%20and%20panel%20300%20piece%20hydrodynamic%20deluxe%20set http://www.fatbraintoys.com/search.cfm?q=%20bridge%20street%... Meanwhile, there's little need for toy drywall compound. We have Play-Doh, better in many ways, or for the older and wiser there is papier-mâché or real modeling clay or, well, drywall compound. It's not that dangerous except to your furniture and carpets. Have we talked to any actual five-year-olds while constructing this metaphor? The ones who are obsessed with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine and Wallace and Gromit (tinkerers, ya know) and who own little toy plastic toolboxes and squeal at the sight of construction equipment? Is it only my friends' kids who are like this?