My son Brendan is the proverbial trash collector, always hoarding leftover boxes, bottles, and other used trinkets. He uses these items for his "inventions". And he feels like he is contributing to the recycling cause by using these items in a new way. He does have a point. For this particular "creation", as we call them around here, he made a list of items and collected and stored them around the house like a squirrel scavenging and storing nuts for the winter. And finally one day, we had ourselves a rather large robot which he promptly hid in while serving a pop tart to his father through the hole which you will notice in the front. Daddy is smarter than that son. Now who am I to squash the ambitions of a 7 year old boy, regardless of the trash...I mean treasures... that lay in waiting around our house for the next inventions? So I came up with the idea to take pictures of his inventions and creations and to put them in a photo album where he can journal about them. Then when trash day comes our little robot friend can march on out to the curb and Brendan will have the photo as a memory. He is by the way, currently reading a biography of Thomas Edison right now, which I'm sure is very inspiring to the young lad. He recently asked me if there were still new inventions today, and I brought up the oh so clever "Snuggie", the blanket that you wear. He said, "Ah, that's a boring invention". I have to say I agree with him. His inventions are much more interesting and clever!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I-AM-A-ROBOT
My son Brendan is the proverbial trash collector, always hoarding leftover boxes, bottles, and other used trinkets. He uses these items for his "inventions". And he feels like he is contributing to the recycling cause by using these items in a new way. He does have a point. For this particular "creation", as we call them around here, he made a list of items and collected and stored them around the house like a squirrel scavenging and storing nuts for the winter. And finally one day, we had ourselves a rather large robot which he promptly hid in while serving a pop tart to his father through the hole which you will notice in the front. Daddy is smarter than that son. Now who am I to squash the ambitions of a 7 year old boy, regardless of the trash...I mean treasures... that lay in waiting around our house for the next inventions? So I came up with the idea to take pictures of his inventions and creations and to put them in a photo album where he can journal about them. Then when trash day comes our little robot friend can march on out to the curb and Brendan will have the photo as a memory. He is by the way, currently reading a biography of Thomas Edison right now, which I'm sure is very inspiring to the young lad. He recently asked me if there were still new inventions today, and I brought up the oh so clever "Snuggie", the blanket that you wear. He said, "Ah, that's a boring invention". I have to say I agree with him. His inventions are much more interesting and clever!
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Great idea about the take a picture and journal it. That must be the teacher/artist in you. My favorite part of the idea is the ability to then throw the "creation" away.
I agree with him on the Snuggie thing. I laugh every time we see that commercial! The people wearing them at the football game look like a group escaped from a religious cult!
We just end up with the trash that never turns into completed treasures! And tell Brendan that if he can invent a semaless sock for kids he would be one rich man!
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