Some sort or snoopy branding or something?

Cheap ass ideas, not as good as your the peanuts

The ballers

Stealers (thinking of stealing bases)

Swingers that miss (not supportive but funny)

Snoopies bandits

Lovely!

I’m planning on taking my 15 y/o daughter to see wunderhorse soon, which will be interesting

We had some rotated out as well - that worked well, but it does sound like this kiddo is looking for something specific. Avoid rotating out those heavily loved toys!

Maybe you could change the message a little bit and enter deeper into her world?

We had a stage where we’d play variations on the floor is lava and set up obstacle courses for them - often just by spreading cushions around as stepping stones. Now this is probably a bit lame for your wee one but where I’m going with this is when you start including elevation (chairs or if you’ve got bar stools that are tall?) the pillows in the floor start to roll.

Them you join in the game as the lava crocodile and capture them any chance they’re too low or make mistakes, and something is bound to happen before long…

So this has three parts to it:

• it escalates their play and incorporates some pressure / chasing which is fun
• it also includes you in the game making it a shared activity
• it takes you away from the scolding buzz-kill parent, so your warnings might not fall on deaf ears (especially after the inevitable happens, and chances are it’ll be minor in this setting too - provided you don’t have glass coffee tables!)

Good luck!

We’re mostly staying around at home with a few weeks off which will be lovely (it’s a small sized government city, so empties out as everyone goes away on holiday). The weather is warm and humid and so the city is so much more pleasant and liveable without traffic and so on.

We have lots of hills to get out into, so in going hoping to get on my bike a lot. There’s skate parks for the 16 y/o and so on. I might finally get around to stringing up a tree swing for the teens, hopefully (and thats how I put one of the kids in hospital over the new year… - fingers crossed).

I hope this doesn’t come across as bragging just the southern hemisphere has a very different vibe to the US/Europe scheme

My daughter was really afraid of spider webs.

We managed to unwind it a little thinking about it being a home for a spider - where might the lounge / bedroom be?, etc…

My teenage daughter had a similar situation, so we dyed her hair cos they hate that stuff!

I love it, this is really exciting research.

I guess on one hand no one really debates generational trauma or abuse being perpetuated so it makes sense the reverse is also true.

I still find it encouraging though