Children's toys

vampirequeen I once watched 10 adult dinner guests struggle for about an hour to construct a set of three-dimensional jigsaws that pre-schoolers could manage in minutes. It's true that they – the adults not the pre-schoolers of course – had consumed quite a lot of wine with dinner and were constantly reduced to helpless laughter, but it just goes to show.

I admit he's at the lower end of the age range but then my DH is well over the age range and he struggled lol.

It's also packaging and assembling that is daunting. This has been going on since my children were little. I remember many a Xmas morning assembling toys, realising we'd forgotten batteries and wondering what on earth we were going to do with all the cardboard. Transformers were around when my son was 8 years old and it is difficult until you realise the knack of 'transforming ' them - but they are really fiddley.

Some are so so difficult to do even our youngest DGS aged 9 had problems with one he got for Christmas,mind you mr.glamma has mega problems with something as simple as a rubic cube which DGS can do in seconds,yes definenatley an age thing maybe.

Generally children are much more adept than adults at that sort of thing. Orca could well be right about the appropriate age.

Has he got the age appropriate one? Some are very complex but others are far simpler for little hands. I suspect it's the case that he's bought one more suitable for an older child.