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Grannybags Sat 30-Oct-21 21:18:40

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!"

Witzend Sat 30-Oct-21 21:17:49

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!

marymary62 Sat 30-Oct-21 21:13:07

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 !

Georgesgran Sat 30-Oct-21 21:12:24

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

Scones Sat 30-Oct-21 21:10:53

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

Smileless2012 Sat 30-Oct-21 21:08:20

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

Newquay Sat 30-Oct-21 20:56:10

Isn’t it strange IMHO how obsessed children are with dinosaurs? Our youngest DGC aged nearly 4 is so knowledgable about them and he loves his dinosaur models, puzzles etc.
I can’t recall hearing anything about them as a child or our DDs either.
I try to introduce other topics-plants, trees, birds but he’s polite but not interested.