Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively

Re:Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and ... by itissid on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:29PM (#15848150)

I used to take apart electronics in my house all the time, watching my dad and learning how to repair TV,toasters, VCRs etc. I was too young to remember how much damage or good I caused. These days I cannot concentrate on a lot of things, but repairing things is not one of them.

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Re:Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and ... by rjzzleep on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:11PM (#15848449)

i used to buy second hand VCRs in the thrift store(or something like that) nearby to clean the heads. It took a while to understand than by cleaning them the way I did I would damage them irreparably.

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Re:Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and ... by jacquesm on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:14PM (#15848467)

VCR heads are incredibly delicate. They are essentially coils of extremely thin wire held together with a little bit of resin around a tiny mu-metal core. Touch them from the wrong angle and they're already gone.

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Re:Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and ... by Double_a_92 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:44AM (#15850607)

Why did you do that? And how did you not realize that it broken after the first one?

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Re:Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and ... by skate22 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:44AM (#15851002)

My dad used to bring home broken desktop computers from work that were being thrown out. I would spend hours taking them apart, it was so much fun for me.

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