TV Character Obsession

Hello All,
Does your child have a character obsession? Mine does. He loves Dora and Diego and many TV characters that are introduced to him by Nick Jr. I don't like this fact. So my solution was to limit TV and making more time with him. It is sometimes good to let your child get over his obsession about the TV characters by reading books and making crafts that features them. Every time we go to the library, he looks for Diego and Dora's books and I look for other interesting books. When we come home, he pretend he is reading Diego and Dora's book. In fact, he can tell what the story is about almost by looking at images! And as far as the crafts go; the other day, I made a tree house out of an empty box with my son. He wanted it because Diego had a tree house that was his so called "rescue center". He brought his little Diego toy and played with it for a least 2 hours. I couldn't ask for more that day!

Another day we made "yo gabba gabba" characters using simply construction papers ( He is not obsessed about them, but interested in making them.)

How do you solve your child's TV character obsession? What do you do about princesses and heros that your child love? Do you think it is healthy to leave them alone with their obsessions or is it dangerous?

Fishi magnets!

Hello All,

Couple days ago, I was at my mom's house and I found some magnets. I asked her how she wants to use those magnets. My sister said: "She was going to buy batteries for her watch!" She had mistakenly bought magnets that looked very much like small watch batteries. I thought to myself :"This is exactly what I need!". So I asked if I could have them for my son's next craft project. She agreed and I put them in my purse. I had forgotten about them until I was at my sister's home and my son didn't have anything to play with. I gave him the magnets and started reading the box: "Avoid touching them if you are pregnant, don't put them next to your credit card, don't give it to your child." Well, I had done it all three already. My sister was pregnant and had touched them! I had given them to my child to play with them and later when I was buying groceries, my credit card wasn't working properly. So, be careful with those things. Still, when I got home, I couldn't wait to put them to work. I cut out two fish shapes out of construction papers and glue them together then put a piece of chenille stems inside it. I also used a wooden stick and a string. Then, I let my son decorate the fish however he wants. Of course magnets on the string attracted the fish. It was an inexpensive virgin of what he had seen a week ago in a store. My son spend 2-3 hours having fun with them. How fun!