What does your kid(s) carry around with them?

[paigevz]

I am always amazed at my kids' changing tastes. I think it would be funny to start a journal and list what they carry around on any given day..........it so reflects what they are thinking about at that time!

I first started really paying attention to this when my DS 2 was born and my DS 1 was in second grade. DS 1 began carrying around Pokemon cards, which quickly morphed into Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Now in 5th grade, for the last two months, he's been reading the Harry Potter books and is currently carrying around the third one. Before that, he carried his personal CD player, and before that his Gameboy.

DS 1 currently is carrying around all his Little Critter books by Mercer Mayer (some 8-10 titles). He seems to change what he carries daily. Yesterday, he was carrying small Ninja figures, the day before an empty water bottle, the day before that, some Mickey Mouse playing cards, the day before that a gummy shark that was his "pet", and the day before that a rock. He's 3, turning 4 in a couple of weeks. The first thing I can remember him carrying around was a yoyo, that he dragged by its string and called his "Yugioh". He was about a year and a half.

These things get dragged everywhere, even to the dinner table, and into the car when we go places (though I don't let them take them into church, school, stores or restaurants).

So, what do your kids carry around?

 

[paigevz]

Uh oh, nobody responded. I thought for sure other people's kids did this too. Maybe my kids really are weird, like their dad says!

 

[Evil Queen]

DS10 over time:

ABC flash cards
NASCAR cars
Pokemon cards
Yu-Gi-Oh cards
Pokemon cards again
Anything football
Now WWE stuff (as long as he ain't touching my wrestling Action figure-we're cool)

 

[milkabum]

I'm 12, lemme give you some of my things (not in order) :
Tamgotchis
Build-A-Bears
Lipgloss
Necklaces, bracelets
Drawing Pads

 

[luvmy2sams]

DS2 is currently carrying around a stuffed Stitch that he pulled off the shelf at World of Disney last January. He totes it EVERYWHERE with him...we've got 2 scrapbook pages of Stitch experiencing things at WDW to prove it. DS must also have his ee--yah (Gameboy) nearby at all times. The kid's a better player than I am.

His only other attachment was a stuffed Piglet that he slept with from the time he was about 6 months old until just before Stitch entered the picture.

DD7's current must-haves are her favorite lip gloss and a Judy Moody book. She has a tote bag that always travels with us, even if it's just to the corner store. It's loaded with art stuff, books, her Gameboy and every flavor of Lip Smackers under the sun.

 

[makinorlando]

When DD9 was younger, and all the other kids had their "favorite" must have item, I always said she was fickle. It was whatever she was "into" at that moment. Most times a stuffed animal, but it could change daily. When she was in day care/pre school they could bring something to sleep with at nap time - well most of the kids had the same thing -but not DD - each morning she had to decide!

She likes to travel light now - her Gameboy or Ninetendo DS and her cell phone (it's a ROKR phone so you can download music like an IPOD) go most places with us. She can't be far away from High School Musical tunes!

 

[challada]

DS-
if he could keep track of ANYTHING, he would probably be more prone to carry it around! LOL! Of course, if you asked him, it would be either his iPod or his PSP (but ask him where the headphones for them might be and he will be perplexed).


DD-
she's a girl, girl, girl...we went thru the purse phase already when she was about 3. Now that she's six and more mature, it's pretty much just the American Girl doll under her arm or her iPod attached to her jeans.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

Little & Now:


DS17: Blankie & Froggy...condom wrappers

DS15: Puffalump & Thomas trains...black hand-held video game thing

DS12: Curious George and plastic spoon...black hand-held video game thing

DD11: (didn't have young)...a purse and make-up she thinks I don't know about

 

[lovmy2girls]

This is funny, I'm glad my kids are normal and still carry around stuff.

From the time they get up to the time they go to bed, they haul stuff around.

1. Blankie for both of them. This is multi purpose item. Its can be used as a carry all to haul more stuff. It goes everywhere, from bedroom, to car. It does not go out to play with them, but is sitting on the couch waiting for them when they walk through the door. When I start cleaning up the house and put the blankies in their room. You can feel the earth shake, they come back in grab the blankies, as if they have just rescued blankie from impending doom all alone on the bed.

2. For my oldest, BABY HORSEY. A ty bennie baby. Has been with her since she was maybe 2 yr old (she is almost 9 now.) Always in her blanket. Goes everywhere but school, wait, he has been in the back pack several times, snuck in. He has been to show an tell many times. She really has a lot to say about him. Many animals have been given to her, but nothing beats baby horsey.



3. For my youngest, right now is a ty bennie baby kangaroo. She is named Mrs. Kangaroo Jack. Along with the DVD Kangaroo Jack, several drawings of Kangaroos. Extra paper and crayons just in case someone needs a picture of Kangaroo Jack, she can whip one out. She is so funny, she calls me Mrs. Kangaroo Jack, and she is my "baby girl Joey" :rotfl:

When we leave for school in the morning, seeing both of them walk to the car with their blankets full of stuff, barely able to fit through the door, I have to just say to myself, "got to love em"

 

[Disney Hot Mama]

My kids don't really carry anything around on a regular basis. They have in the past as babies done pacificers and then stuffed animals. Other than that never anything over and over.

On a side note ( putting flame suit on now! )
I hate seeing kids carrying around and playing their Game Boys all the time. I can understand certain times but at the grocery store, shopping at the mall etc. Come on - there has to be a limit on this. I never let my kids leave the house with theirs unless it is to bring for a doctors apt etc. They are limited to 30 minutes a day no more. Many kids I know never seem to be without theirs and they must play in excess of 3 hours every day!

 

[Aidensmom]

My son, 4, has always carried a doll or stuffed animal with him. Currently it is a stuffed Stitch that he cannot leave home without.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

My kids don't really carry anything around on a regular basis. They have in the past as babies done pacificers and then stuffed animals. Other than that never anything over and over.

On a side note ( putting flame suit on now! )
I hate seeing kids carrying around and playing their Game Boys all the time. I can understand certain times but at the grocery store, shopping at the mall etc. Come on - there has to be a limit on this. I never let my kids leave the house with theirs unless it is to bring for a doctors apt etc. They are limited to 30 minutes a day no more. Many kids I know never seem to be without theirs and they must play in excess of 3 hours every day!

Not flaming. You raise your kids, I'll raise mine. We all do our best.

I loved the phrase, "You can bring your Game Boys." They aren't Game Boys anymore, though - they are PS somethings, I think. One time in particular, I had to drag the kids Bra Shopping with me. If the boys hadn't been able to bury their heads in their Game Boys, I think they'd have gone into hysterics and then passed out. Bra Shopping at 9 & 11 for boys is as close to Child Abuse as I have come.

Also going to the bank to make wire transfers. Very boring for kids.

 

[N.Bailey]

My 15 year old son is like his mom, he carries as little as possible. I don't even carry a handbag. My son always has his cell phone though.

My 14 year old daughter who is much more responsible carries a handbag, keys to the house (they're in the same grade, so she carries the keys) along with various bottles of perfumes and lotions, hand cremes or what not from Bath and Body Works, Victoria Secret, or the Jessica Simpson line. Tons of make-up (she's a member of Cosmetique - she got 12 months for a bday gift and decided that will be her bday gift every year from here on out. ) and of course, her cell phone too. I also send all money that needs to go to school with her because my son would lose it before entering the school.

At younger ages, my son collected all those silly cards too. I'm so glad those days are over. We had a small fortune in them stupid cards.

 

[redshoes]

When my youngest DS was about 18 months old he would carry around a pretend chicken leg with a bite out of it from our play kitchen set. It looked pretty realistic, so much so that someone asked my DH why we let our little boy eat chicken legs in church. Now he carries around some type of matchbox car usually hidden somewhere in his pocket. My oldest DS (almost 4) usually is carrying around his favorite book of the week.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Usually it's one of the musical instruments from his "Box O' Noisy Goodness" he got for Christmas last year. His favorite seems to be the hand drum. I tell ya, that kid is going to have a garage band someday.

TOV

 

[barkley]

(only in privacy of our home, a trusted relatives or in the car )-

dd 11 1/2-"budgie" what was a baby blanket gifted to her brother prior to his birth 9 years ago. she latched onto it and it now resembles a transparent shredded rag (oh and the trauma we went through 7 years ago when it accidentaly got packed in a moving box that was stored away for 6 months!),

ds 9-"teddy ursa" and "baby pooh". teddy ursa is an old ty bear which has been named for a yugioh character. baby pooh is a infant pooh in jammies with a trap door bottom (though the trap door came unsewed so you now see a little "pooh tush") he got at wdw last fall. both are slept with and often go along for the ride to school and other places in the car (in fact teddy ursa has been officaly banned as a "share item" at school-he would figure out the most obscure means to relate it whatever the shareing topic of the week was! my favorite was "something that teaches us about jesus"-according to ds, teddy ursa is made of love and so is jesus/he tried it again a few weeks later with "something that teaches us about satan"-teddy ursa is all good and all good is the opposite of all bad and satan is all bad