{"id":4853,"date":"2008-11-05T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2009-01-17T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:16:07","slug":"christmas-gifts-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/christmas-gifts-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take about Christmas. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Book Cover\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/410QBJZFVDL._SL160_AA115_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Jim Weiss is a story-teller.  We have a complete set of his CDs and they are worth every penny.  My kids listen to them over and over again.  I love the way that they have become familiar with myths and classics in a completely non-intimidating way.  (I also love their vocabulary words they pick up.)  I think one of the enduring images of my kids&#8217; childhood will be them playing Legos and listening to Jim Weiss. Your public library probably has one or two you can sample.  Ages 4-adult.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Book Cover\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/4105AFMSZXL._SL160_AA115_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>This is my favorite card game, even though it makes my head hurt.  It&#8217;s a little hard to explain, but you can see the directions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.setgame.com\/set\/index.html\">here<\/a>.   This game is so much fun. Ages 7-adult. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Book Cover\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51EGFK3GQFL._SL160_AA115_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Slamwich is a wonderfully fun game:  fast-paced and goofy.  This is great to play with a small group of kids. Ages 4-12.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Book Cover\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ScIMoQgbL._SL160_AA115_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as cheap a skate as you&#8217;ll find, but Legos are the one toy that I don&#8217;t mind paying through the nose for&#8211;and they are quite pricey.  They get a lot of use in this house and are so great for creative play.  May I suggest that you put an old sheet on the ground before the kids dump them out?  Makes them much easier to clean up.  (I doubt there is a parent in the land who doesn&#8217;t know what a Lego to the bottom of the foot feels like.) Ages 4-12.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>A final note:  I think Amazon has done something positively brilliant:  they have introduced frustration-free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=amb_link_7803552_3?ie=UTF8&#038;docId=1000276271&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&#038;pf_rd_r=0C9PACWJZCB7MDMB76BZ&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=457765901&#038;pf_rd_i=507846\">packaging<\/a>.  I suspect this will be huge for them&#8211;none of those evil metal twist ties or plastic clamshell packages.  <\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;what are the favorites at your house?  And what are your kids getting for Christmas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take about Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}