Dinosaurs

My granddaughter requested a dinosaur themed party when she was three. My daughter made an amazing stegosaurus cake!

The ten year old girl I childmind loves this programme:
"Dino Dana"
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Both my sons were and still are obsessed Newquay

This reminds of the hilarious post on Mumsnet some years ago. Here is the link if anyone is interested. I personally loved dinosaurs as a child as did both my sons.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a2301982-Im-getting-sick-and-tired-of-dinosaurs-being-forced-on-our-children

My nearly 5 year old grandson is also obsessed with dinosaurs,knows all the names and has his bedroom decorated with them.
We used to play at being dinosaurs and he used to say to me you be Grandma dinosaur hence my user name!

Apart from the Natural History Museum my only real brush with dinosaurs as a 1950s child was the dinosaur part of Fantasia, but I found it upsetting to see them all die of starvation, so didn't like it much. My six year old granddaughter watched it the other day and she took it all in her stride. She asked me their names but there are not many that I know!

My granddaughter is fascinated with dinosaurs. I bought her a teeshirt with her name changed to a dinosaur name printed on it! E.g. Mary-au-sauras.

I was really into dinosaurs when I was young. Daughter was as a child, too, and so was Hubby. Thankfully in Canada we have at least two dinosaur museums, and we have visited both.

When I have taught pediatric nursing, I used to tell my students that if you're not sure what to say to build rapport with a child, ask about dinosaurs. Many children go through a dinosaur phase, so it's a pretty safe topic.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Andy's Dinosaur Adventures.

dinosaurs - plural!

Reviewing The Dino Safari [DinoSafari] [Dinosaur] Train Set In Full. Hornby Triang

The whole video from the start is HERE

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

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.

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'.

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

It is predominately boys who become obsessed with the subject.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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,