No interest in toys?

[crunchy_mommy]

DS is just about 14mos and he is not at all interested in toys.

We have all sorts (mostly gifts) and he basically just ignores them, even if we try to play with him. Sometimes he'll pick a toy up & carry it around but that's pretty much the extent of it. Whenever we're home, he wants to read stories over & over & over and walk around the house & play with the cat door or open the cupboards. That's all great, I just wonder why on earth we have all these toys if he doesn't want them... and if it's 'normal'... We've even taken him other places where there are new/different toys to play with and he might wander over for a minute or pick something up out of curiosity but that's it. Total in a whole day might be 5 minutes of toy-playing!!

[lifeguard]

I think it's normal - at least ime. Just recently ds literally did NOT touch his toy basket for 2 weeks. 2 weeks & not once did he play with a toy in our house. But anything non-toy he is all over - especially tools. Every so often I worry he is bored 'cause we don't have many toys but if I give him something new he plays with it for 5 minutes & then abandons it with the others.

[rosinthebow]

Sounds just like my kids too. They are 3 years old and 13 months old and I have often thought that they really don't play with their toys that much, they love to play with other 'real stuff' in the house though, especially belts, the oldest always pretends he is fishing with his dad's belts or something and they just run around and get into everything. Yet for some reason I always feel like I can't get rid of any of the toys, even though they really clutter up the house.

[sapphire_chan]

Lina only plays with her toys when they're all on her low shelves and there's lots of clear floor space near them. So for us, if she hasn't been playing with her toys much, I generally find that other stuff has been cluttering her play space.

(But I at people who talk about someone "not bringing toys for their kids to play with". Because I brought a whole *bag* of toys for Lina on the train and she spent the whole trip walking up and down the aisle.)

[lookatreestar]

mine are almost 3 and almost 1. they really do not play with toys when we are home. however at grandmas house it is a different story! and my daughter is just starting to get into pretend play and loves fake food.

[meemee]

this is how i like to say it.

it isnt that they dont play with toys. they are ALWAYS playing with toys. excpet that their definition of toys are completely different

my dd is 7 years old and has rarely played with toys.

when she was a crawler her favourite toys were my cell phone and the remote. the real stuff. not just pseudo toys.

she loved cat toys though. and her blocks were cat cans of food. we stopped bday presents a while ago. by the first week after her bday we gave away her toys.

however she does have toys. she has a bookshelf she turned into a dollhouse and gathers things around the house to make funriture. books books and more books.

however she loves going to tothers and playing with their toys. i think she only needs to play to figure it out. once she has figured it out she is not interested in that any more.

at a year my dd's other favourite toys were keyboard, all types of pens esp. with caps, bottles....

[starling&diesel]

My little one is 14 months and often goes several days between pulling anything out of her toy box. She loves her box of books though, and anything she can drape around her neck or carry tucked over her arms. Gotta get that girl some play silks! I think it's great that she's not into toys, and we don't have many to begin with, so we encourage her foraging for stuff to occupy her time. And she's good at it! Wooden spoons, paper cups, shoes, cardboard boxes, newspaper, dominos, she finds a playful purpose!

[sapphire_chan]

for small play silks, and bags (a huge favorite here), check thrift stores. There's always a couple pretty pieces of silk or cotton.