toys at home vs. soft play etc

[kosh]

we got LO a play kitchen for xmas/birthday.
then the little softplay center where we go on saturdays changed owners and got lots of new things including a play kitchen too. LO loves it asks to go there to play with it.
call me silly but now I don't know what to do about his present? I mean I know that he'll love to have one here, but somehow I think it's good that he enjoys going out and play with things he does not have here.
am I over thinking it?

 

[emyandpotato]

No! Rory loves toys elsewhere and is indifferent to the very same toys at home. It's more of a novelty when it's somewhere else. By all means give him the kitchen though, it's a lovely gift!

 

[Mrs Bee]

I'd say your overthinking it....he will still love to play with the one out at soft play but he will love to have his own special one to play with at home

 

[twobecome3]

could go either way really - kids are fickle! my lo loved her little play kitchen at home for the first few weeks, now she hasn't touched it in months.

when we go to softplay she spends half the time at their play kitchen !

 

[kosh]

could go either way really - kids are fickle! my lo loved her little play kitchen at home for the first few weeks, now she hasn't touched it in months.

when we go to softplay she spends half the time at their play kitchen !

 

[Button#]

My LO plays with the kitchen at playgroup differently to his one at home so I see no harm in having the same toys at home and at playgroup/soft play.

 

[felix555]

As a pp said ... It could go either way

My LO had 2 speech therapy sessions and they had this wooden car ramp thingy, he was obsessed with it. I saw it in sainsburys and bought it and well he has hardly touched it.

However the other day we were in a waiting room at the hospital and they had dinosaurs there and he loved them, I bought a couple and its one of his current favourites.

A good friend of mine comes round often here and he loves my LO's trains so I bought him a cheap set from argos and he loves trains now and that's all he's interested in.

You just never know with them!

 

[icklemonster]

We have left a play kitchen at my Grandparents who have Charlotte at least once a week. She plays with it loads, and has done since July. Still when DH had a hospital appointment last week and they had a play kitchen in the clinic and she still spent all the time while we waited playing with it. Of course, it depends on the child, but I think it's a lovely present.

That said, I don't want to get one for here now as I don't want her to get bored with the one at my Grandparents. That's a little different to having one at softplay though, as I doubt he spends 10 hours there once a week xxx

 

[kosh]

We have left a play kitchen at my Grandparents who have Charlotte at least once a week. She plays with it loads, and has done since July. Still when DH had a hospital appointment last week and they had a play kitchen in the clinic and she still spent all the time while we waited playing with it. Of course, it depends on the child, but I think it's a lovely present.

That said, I don't want to get one for here now as I don't want her to get bored with the one at my Grandparents. That's a little different to having one at softplay though, as I doubt he spends 10 hours there once a week xxx

of course it is different, but I was thinking along those lines.