geting the young involed

[cudders]

My little one likes trains and I started to make a small layout for him with him helping.. As usual I got carried away with the 'right' look etc but all he wanted was to run a train round a loop!

So thats what he has and he loves it!

I think the details comes later when we have more spare time and more cash in the pocket.

Even in my 20's, although I had some stock, the money went on beer and the fairer sex not points and locos...

I only know of one lad at my eldest's school who admits to having a model railway..can't see that changing really. Proper modelling is a bloke thing.

Cudders

[Newportnobby]

Proper modelling is a bloke thing.

Cudders

INCOMING!!!  Take cover in the nearest slit trench

[Lawrence]

Good grief cudders, are you trying to get us all shot with that last statement and for the benefit of our lady members

I DON'T AGREE WITH CUDDERS

[Pengi]

Proper modelling is a bloke thing.

Cudders

So we might see you on Page 3 of the Sun then!

[longbridge]

Thought about this a lot lately, I think kids are in a better position to get into model railways than we were when I was a kid, my reasons are but they pretty much depend on the child's parents.

1/ we never had Thomas The Tank staring at us when we went into toy shops, I would say most boys and some girls have at some time in their early lives had something to do with Thomas.

2/ Thomas the Tank DVDs and TV shows, I know all my kids sat my grandkids in front of the telly to watch Thomas while they did some housework.

3/ Preserved railways, whenever I have been to a preserved railway there is always loads of kids and most parents enjoy a day out on the train with the family, the only trains I saw as a kid was when I withstood the freezing cold with notebook and pencil in hand while train spotting.

4/ Model Railway Exhibitions, all of the model railway exhibitions I go to always have plenty of kids looking on and its not always boys, I have enjoyed listening to girls getting excited over model trains and telling their Mum and Dad what they think.

5/ The only thing stopping kids from getting involved with model railways is modern technology but who knows having the above things introduced to children when they are young may introduce them into the hobby when they are older, I can remember when I married my first wife back in the 1960s, she thought I had lost my marbles when I built a Triang layout on a 6x4 sheet of plywood, I believe that when trains have been introduced to a child it never leaves them, the proof is in the pudding as most of us old buggers on this forum played with trains when we were kids.

[Neonoodle]

Everning all,

Is less than a day old to young do you think? Hopefully he will follow after me in the hobby dept

Andrew Edwin Little Born 06/07/2012



Neil

[longbridge]

Congratulations Neil he sure is a bonny boy, this must be some kind of record for starting little ones off with trains, well done 

[swisstony]

Congratulations, we had a girl five weeks ago, your peace and quiet will now disappear for 18 years I say this having been up since five and just fed the night stalker who seems to think Half ten is wake up time wouldn't swap it for the world though

I've managed an hour here and there on my layout since she was born, but that changing now I've moved it out of the garage into the spare room!

[scotsoft]

Well done to mum and you, I am sure he will be a credit to both of you 

cheers John.

[longbridge]

Congratulations, we had a girl five weeks ago, your peace and quiet will now disappear for 18 years I say this having been up since five and just fed the night stalker who seems to think Half ten is wake up time wouldn't swap it for the world though

I've managed an hour here and there on my layout since she was born, but that changing now I've moved it out of the garage into the spare room!

Hi Tony I hate to burst your bubble there but you can forget 18 years  the older kids get the bigger the problems become and the noise gets louder, all our kids are aged between 38 and 49 and they are more trouble than enough, I should have got a vasectomy when I was 10 years old 

[kaiwhara]

Geez, what hope do I hold? I don't have any kids yet!!

Congratulations, we had a girl five weeks ago, your peace and quiet will now disappear for 18 years I say this having been up since five and just fed the night stalker who seems to think Half ten is wake up time wouldn't swap it for the world though

I've managed an hour here and there on my layout since she was born, but that changing now I've moved it out of the garage into the spare room!

Hi Tony I hate to burst your bubble there but you can forget 18 years  the older kids get the bigger the problems become and the noise gets louder, all our kids are aged between 38 and 49 and they are more trouble than enough, I should have got a vasectomy when I was 10 years old 

[Newportnobby]

Huge congratulations, Neil
Hope Mum & son are both doing well

[Sprintex]

Geez, what hope do I hold? I don't have any kids yet!!

Do yourself a favour . . . keep it that way 

Both myself and Mrs Sprintex have no thoughts or plans to have kids, in fact the very thought horrifies us both! Too much responsibility, too expensive, too restrictive, too noisy, and what a god-awful world to have to subject them to 

Get a cat instead 


Paul

[galway]

Congrats Neil and Swisstony  , too be honest having children makes life worth living, there are lots of things you enjoy in life, but, you never get as much joy as you do than watching your children growing up, all I can say is roll on the grandkids.

Paul

[moogle]

Yes, congrats to all new mums and dads on here.
Kids aren't for everyone of course.
I'm single and have none, but if I met someone who wanted some I'd expose them to trains from an early age.
Hopefully they'd like them and whilst they might stray away in the teenage years, hope they'd like them for life!