As a parent you want your child to have everything you had, couldn't have or would have wanted. You want to give your child the best childhood you can. Toys, Clothes, whatever you value. For me, I want my child to have all the things around him to ensure that he always has a good time at home and not have to go somewhere else to find it. So I set up to have all the toys that would fill his days with fun things to do.
It didn't start that way. We have very generous family and friends who love to bring gifts for my boys to the point where I didn't need to buy clothes for JD until he was a year old and I didn't give him any Christmas presents for his first Christmas. He just didn't need anything else. But once he started becoming his own person, I wanted to fill his world with all the things that I loved playing with and some of the new great things that I never got a chance to play with. It became especially bad when it started getting nice out and JD turned 2.
For example. We have a great back yard and I've tried to outfit it with all the outside toys that would make him love being outside and not need to go to the playground to have fun. Swing set, play house, water table, baby pool, sand box to name a few things. However; I am always scouting tag sales and Craig's list for items to make it better.
JD loves to be outside and frequently asks to go play with one of the items that we have out there for him but ironically he is just as happy playing with the simple things; bubbles, chalk or the empty jumbo box of diapers as he is with all the toys we have bought him.
So where do you draw the line between enough and too much?
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