Posting this in the Simple Living community a well, but thought I might a different perspective and additional input here.
Christmas is coming and I have a two year old and a five year old. My wife and I are pretty stumped about what to get our kids for Christmas. The two year old is easy; he doesn’t care, will be thrilled with a ball, and just happy to be included.
The five year old is very down to earth and grateful for anything, but he already has everything he needs because up to now we’ve tried to be smart about buying him things that will last and give him good enjoyment mileage. He has plenty of Legos, an assortment of figurines (farm animals, fantasy creatures, little play houses, action figures, cars.), plenty of outside balls and whatnot. He also doesn’t need consumable stuff (has plenty of candy from Halloween, crayons, coloring books, crafty supplies)
He doesn’t need more stuff, but we still want Christmas morning to feel special and exciting and we want him to have a good “Santa came!!!” experience. I like the idea of giving experiences like tickets to Disney on Ice or a voucher to an ice cream shop, but that just doesn’t have the same effect for a five year old, cause he can’t hold it and it’s really just a promise for the future.
Any advice or suggestions would be really appreciated!
Thank you all and much love from me to you!
I have a 3 yo daughter and 7 yo son. She loves music and he loves books. They LOVE their tonie music box. My daughter is special needs and the tonie box is a music box. You can buy ‘tonies’, which are audiobooks and soundtracks to their favorite shows. The box runs $99. The individual tonies cost ~$18 a piece (same cost as buying a music album). Both kids adore the box and it’s a great way to get them from shouting at Alexa to play music.
https://us.tonies.com/
“Oh no, that didn’t work. I think your password is wrong.”
😡😡😡
For those who may not be familiar with the tonie box - once set up, the tonies auto-play when set on the box. Never had a password issue.
My 3 yo autistic daughter can use it without issue. Not sure what problem you are running into.
Yes, once it’s set up it’s great, but there’s a lot of connectivity issues for some people when attempting the initial setup.
There’s issues with connecting to 5Ghz Wi-Fi, so they recommend trying 2.4Ghz, which can also refuse to connect to some reason (prompting the error message I shared, and which is wrong).
To set ours up we needed two phones. One with a hotspot running with Max Compatibility enabled, and then a second one with the app connected to the hotspot to get past the initial setup. After that we could switch the connection to 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi and leave it. It can be a very frustrating experience, especially considering how much you’re paying for it all.
Also for anyone considering buying, when you buy a new figure to use it first has to download the audio to the box before you can use it “offline” away from an internet connection.