[blparent] putting toys together

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC Inc)]

You could always just give him the train set and let him figure it out. 
We got our daughter a Geotrax set and she didn't touch it for about a
year. I was very close to taking it to a consignment store. Then I had
left it in a corner where she could see it, and the day I was to take it
to the store, she started playing with it. 
I take the view that it's my job to play with my daughter, not play for
her. If she needs help, she can ask me, but often with trains, the fun
is in setting up the tracks. If the toy is for your son. V. for you,
just let him figure it out
Tell him he's got the ability to figure this out, v. making it a
blindness issue. If you want, you can give him the picture as a hint,
after all puzzles have pictures so treat this as just a puzzle. 


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On Behalf Of Josh
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:13 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] putting toys together

Hi,

for christmas my son got one of the timbertown railway train sets. I put
this toy together last night as best I could. we do not have a play room
so he wanted to do something else so I put it away. now he wants it
together again. I'm trying to put it togeter and am running into
difficulties. it has 15 pieces of track including two ramps, a  station,
if you put the train cars in the station section it alligns the wheels
to the tracks for them. If I were smart I would have written down what I
did to assemble the train thing but  I did not. So if anyone can tell me
how to put thiss together I'd appreciate some help. tere's a picture on
the box but I cannot see it, my wife is blind--so no sighted people
around at the moment to assist me at all. 

Josh Kennedy jkenn337 at gmail.com
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