Loving The Things Your Kids Are In To Isn't Always Easy

My little girl recently turned 7 and some of her lovely friends gave her some 'loom bands' for her birthday. We were very very late to the party when it came to loom bands and although my curly girl was thrilled to have some at last, I was decidedly NOT thrilled! One look at those fiddly little bits and the plastic loom whatsit and I felt frustrated before we had even started to figure out how to do it. Yeh, I know, you've all probably been happily' loom-banding' away for months and are thinking, 'What's she on about, it's EASY!' The instructions in the box were rubbish and I just have some kind of mental block about it that means my curly girl was very fed up with my lack of helpfullness in making complex band bracelets for all her friends. Thankfully, when she took her bands into school, she very quickly learnt to make bracelets herself with help from her friends whilst I am still left clueless with my fat clumsy fingers. Best of all, I discovered that one of my mummy friends from school, who has two boys, had bought herself some bands and had tried to pursuaded her reluctant boys to give it a go; in the face of their disinterest she eagerly 'borrowed' my little girl for an after school loom band session whilst I was at the orthodontist. Both were as happy as larks when I picked curly girl up but I am still baffled. Oh, and not to mention the amount of loom bands that lurk in every corner of the carpet, vastly outnumbering the spider population in our house and constantly getting sucked up the hoover or worse, tangled in the brush thingys.

So, I am not-so-patiently sitting it out until the insanity of the loom band craze is over and the next big thing emerges. I was a Panini footbal sticker album girl myself and partial to troll dolls; how about you?!

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Sharon Pickles

I am 49, have five children and practice the gentle art of household mismanagement. I study part-time with the Open University and love to hunt out vintage bargains in charity shops. Baking and sewing are my 'happy place'.

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