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I love my granddaughter
Oswin - I'm five in April
Granny - What would you like for your birthday?
Owsin - I've got lots of toys already. I don't need any more.
Granny - would you like me to give some money to a charity for you?
Oswin - I want to help owls.
Granny - We'll make a donation to the RSPB (Royal Society for Protection of Birds) and you can sit by the computer on your birthday and help me make it.
Oswin - tell them it's for barn owls.
(Just like her mother and her uncle, her favourite bedtime audio book was 'The owl who was afraid of the dark'. Can't recommend it too highly - just make sure you avoid any abridged versions. It's all about Plop, a baby barn owl, who gradually moves from being scared of the dark to discovering that it's wonderful!)
She's very environmentally aware for a four year old - both her parents and grandparents are very involved on that front. But she isn't missing out on anything - rather the opposite, I think. She doesn't have loads of expensive toys - what she does have is lots of time spent with people who like playing games with her, talk to her about the things she enjoys (still daffodils at number 1), play shops, read books, go for walks, etc.
Time after time, I've seen her pass over the doll's house (lovely one from a charity shop), the model railway (passed down the family), piles of bricks, etc in favour of playing with totally improvised toys.
The recent favourite has been a box of stitch markers. Little coloured things for marking positions in crochet and knitting. Combined with the racks for holding Scrabble tiles, they are involved in some complicated game that I don't fully comprehend, but I think they're all representing children in her school, and the different colours represent different classes. They all get marched into lines and generally bossed about!
Coloured glass beads (probably intended for flower arranging originally, but I got them in a charity shop because they were pretty) are also a favourite, along with a box of assorted dice. We're gamers, we have LOTS of dice.
Granny - What would you like for your birthday?
Owsin - I've got lots of toys already. I don't need any more.
Granny - would you like me to give some money to a charity for you?
Oswin - I want to help owls.
Granny - We'll make a donation to the RSPB (Royal Society for Protection of Birds) and you can sit by the computer on your birthday and help me make it.
Oswin - tell them it's for barn owls.
(Just like her mother and her uncle, her favourite bedtime audio book was 'The owl who was afraid of the dark'. Can't recommend it too highly - just make sure you avoid any abridged versions. It's all about Plop, a baby barn owl, who gradually moves from being scared of the dark to discovering that it's wonderful!)
She's very environmentally aware for a four year old - both her parents and grandparents are very involved on that front. But she isn't missing out on anything - rather the opposite, I think. She doesn't have loads of expensive toys - what she does have is lots of time spent with people who like playing games with her, talk to her about the things she enjoys (still daffodils at number 1), play shops, read books, go for walks, etc.
Time after time, I've seen her pass over the doll's house (lovely one from a charity shop), the model railway (passed down the family), piles of bricks, etc in favour of playing with totally improvised toys.
The recent favourite has been a box of stitch markers. Little coloured things for marking positions in crochet and knitting. Combined with the racks for holding Scrabble tiles, they are involved in some complicated game that I don't fully comprehend, but I think they're all representing children in her school, and the different colours represent different classes. They all get marched into lines and generally bossed about!
Coloured glass beads (probably intended for flower arranging originally, but I got them in a charity shop because they were pretty) are also a favourite, along with a box of assorted dice. We're gamers, we have LOTS of dice.
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My youngest great niece (nearly 7) 'ticks' in a similar way. At the moment though it's books all the way. As well as what she's given she's reading her way through the local library.
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Ours has a great selection of children's books and, like your great niece, Owsin is devouring them by the bucket-load.
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