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Fixing Grandchildren's Toys

dubbie

I was fortunate to see my family yesterday with the grandchildren and I was presented with two toys no longer working. They contain electronics which was no longer functioning. After serious consideration and deep, deep thought I inserted some batteries and that was them, both fixed!. I must be a genius or something. Maybe they had previously tried flat batteries before or just put the batteries in the wrong way around.

 

 

 

Dubbie

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  • Great share D Squared.

     

    I have a house full of grandchildren at the moment. My daughter and her husband and two kids are in between homes. They are squatting in the basement while they wait to check off all the boxes on their wish list before they purchase their dream home. It was suppose to be for six months but now I expect another year.

     

    My grand daughter comes to me often, with encouragement from her mother, for me to fix toys. I have been using the opportunities to get her to troubleshoot the problem. If the problem is battery related, she works through removing the cover and replacing them while I offer encouragement.

     

    My motive is to foster her in developing problem solving skills. Few in my family have the skill or in actual fact, want to use them to solve their own problems, before asking someone else for help. I find it frustrating when you ask, "what do you mean it doesn't work?" and the response doesn't even contain I tried turning it off an on. "It just doesn't work! How would I know."

     

    Problem solving doesn't provide instant gratification, it take time and that doesn't appear to be acceptable today.

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  • Great share D Squared.

     

    I have a house full of grandchildren at the moment. My daughter and her husband and two kids are in between homes. They are squatting in the basement while they wait to check off all the boxes on their wish list before they purchase their dream home. It was suppose to be for six months but now I expect another year.

     

    My grand daughter comes to me often, with encouragement from her mother, for me to fix toys. I have been using the opportunities to get her to troubleshoot the problem. If the problem is battery related, she works through removing the cover and replacing them while I offer encouragement.

     

    My motive is to foster her in developing problem solving skills. Few in my family have the skill or in actual fact, want to use them to solve their own problems, before asking someone else for help. I find it frustrating when you ask, "what do you mean it doesn't work?" and the response doesn't even contain I tried turning it off an on. "It just doesn't work! How would I know."

     

    Problem solving doesn't provide instant gratification, it take time and that doesn't appear to be acceptable today.

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