Dinosaurs

Our boys now aged 39 and 37 were obsessed with them too.

So's my husband 57. I've bought him a TEA REX mug for his birthday next week. shhhh, don't tell him.

My 4 year old GS is the same. My DDs knew quite a bit about them but he’s an ‘expert’.

Newquay - My grandson is about the same age and he’s also obsessed ! Like yours he knows all the names etc. I may be partly to blame as I introduced him at a very early age to a charity shop book on dinosaurs (quite an adult one ) which shows their size relative to a person (grandad in his mind ) and he just adored it ! It was one of his first words. His mother isn’t impressed I have to say. He says he would like a huge walking dinosaur (preferably a TRex) for Christmas . Not sure how we get out of that one !

There’s a fantastic big National Geographic book for young children, about dinosaurs. I bought it for an already obsessed Gds when he was only 3 1/2.
He loved it, still does, and now knows all their names, and there are masses of them - big, full colour pictures with a little ‘man’ alongside, to show the relative sizes.
Highly recommended!

Our youngest son was obsessed with dinosaurs. We took him to the Natural History Museum and I'll never forget his huge dinner plate eyes as he stared in awe at the Triceratops there, saying "I didn't realise they were that big!"

I've been obsessed with dinosaurs since my first visit to the Natural History Museum nearly 70 years ago. I recently treated myself to an Ichthyosaurus vertebra (Yes my family do think I'm mad) GS1 was obsessed for a long time but has now moved on to other things. I think it's just the fascination of animals that we will never actually see, yet we know they existed,

My son, now 30 was too, when we took him to the NH museum Granhybags, aged 4/5, he turned tail and ran! I spent the next hour or so with him chasing pigeons while my friend took DD around inside. But he loved the books and myriad of plastic ones that went everywhere with him and knew a lot about them.

Their knowledge never fails to amaze me
Dinosaurs, from tiny model dinosaurs that were often carried in a pocket or two. right through to huge roaring /moving dinosaurs, quilt covers and many many books ( mostly from charity shops)

Last year they had a Megladon (sp?) Tooth in each of their Christmas stockings.

And then of course, volcanos and the ice age with huge mammoth and sabre tooth tigers and now sharks and massive snakes on YouTube.

It only goes to show give a child something that excites the imagination and no matter how young the child (or how long the word) he/she will often show knowledge beyond their years.

Having a child with learning difficulties in the family, the 'dinosaur obsession ' was a particularly good learning aid at home and at school.

It’s fascinating isn’t it to see THEIR fascination?
I just don’t recall hearing anything about dinosaurs at all during my school years 50s/60s.

Yes, it’s almost a universal fascination, isn’t it?
And think of all the children’s clothes and homeware etc that they feature on.
Dinosaurs are covered in the National Curriculum for Year 2.

I worked in a museum and dreaded little boys coming in with parents in tow asking to speak to a member of staff as almost inevitably they knew more about dinosaurs than I did.
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It is predominately boys who become obsessed with the subject.

When I was at school in the 50s every Monday morning we had to listen to a radio program about dinosaurs.

It does seem to be boys. No boys in my family until my GS. Several neices. No interest in dinos from them or DD. GS came along, dino obsessed by the age of 1. One of his earliest words was didodoor. I've got a video of a little GS flicking through a book and announcing all of the didodoors.

Obsession is ongoing although he allows sea creatures in at times and briefly got distracted by duck billed platypus'.

Isn't there a TV programme where Andy goes back in time and sees dinosaurs? I have been trying to explain CGI to the grandchildren because it must be so hard for them to understand that these creatures are not real. Animals are absolutely amazing now, you would think dinosaurs are still around.

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The whole video from the start is HERE

HERE is where he takes the models of the dinosaur out of the box.

dinosaurs - plural!

Andy's Dinosaur Adventures.

My daughter loves them! She’s 10. Her bedroom is dinosaur themed.

One of my sons was so obsessed with dinosaurs, when we went down to the Jurassic Coast, at his request, he was convinced when he started digging on the beach, he was on the cusp of some great skeletal discovery. He was well aware of Mary Anning and Dr Gideon Mantel from an early age. We still have their ELC collection of dinosaurs. Our grandchildren played with them too, my granddaughter always called them dragons when she was small, not that far removed I suppose!

I remember taking him to the Natural History Museum on several occasions when he was still only about 6 or 7. I was always the one who said "can we sit down now" after a couple of hours viewing his enthusiasm never seemed to flag. He was far more savvy than me about them, when I was that age, I remember my parents taking us to the Natural History Museum and seeing the reproduction of the skeleton of the diplodocus in the entry hall, quaking in fear at the sheer size, imagining all species of dinosaurs were carnivores I do understand the fascination.

Yes, both my S passed through that phase. Interestingly the elder has retained much of his knowledge whereas younger seems to have completely lost interest. Maybe his own children will rekindle this?

My little grandson, now 4, is also obsessed with dinosaurs. I was amazed at how quickly he picked up the different names etc. For his birthday, I got him one of those personalised books with a dinosaur theme, where he is part of the story.

When I was a small child (1950s) we had a set of encyclopedias in the house and through them I got interested in dinosaurs. When we were asked to do a project on animals in school all the other girls did cute puppies or kittens but I did disosaurs and won second prize.

There were not so many books or model kits in those days. I also had a train set, a meccano set a garage and a fort which had belonged to an uncle who died young.

When I grew older I became fascinated with space and science fiction.