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title: Babies Love Trash
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date: 2025-11-20
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- parenting
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Whether you have a bunch of toys or not, babies and toddlers love to play with household items and trash. If you can't afford many toys, good news for you: you don't really need them.
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- My son's favorite bath toys are a cup and empty soap bottles.
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- Some of his favorite toys are cardboard boxes and tubes.
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- At one point, he had a long, rigid cardboard tube (I think it came with a carpet we bought), and it was his favourite toy for over a month; he swung it around pretty much wherever he went.
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- He loves to rip up tissues and pieces of paper.
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- He likes to shake bottles of pills (for safety, you can put dry beans into an empty child-locking prescription bottle).
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- He really likes water bottles too, both disposable and reusable.
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- When he was around 6 or 7 months old, my wife smacked his hands with some coupons we got in the mail, and he laughed so hard.
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If you really need to distract a baby, just give the baby some trash. My son gets upset if I pop a Werther's or a piece of gum, but he usually calms down if I give him the wrapper. |