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    First menstruation help

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    I agree about letting her explore different products/sizes, but I would caution to not have her insert a tampon until/unless her flow is…constant? Not super light and irregular? I don’t really know, but our experience was that dd’s first time trying one (the tiniest size) was her last time because there was no flow and it hurt her (a lot!) to try to remove it. She was 12 and on swim team, so it was really a terrible thing that she didn’t feel comfortable using them again. 

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    Tell me--what do YOU do with Lego sets at your house?

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    32 minutes ago, Clarita said:

    We don't do sets. I mean I've bought them but in our household they don't stay sets for long. So all of it goes in a bin (or 2 or 3). My son will keep his current creation in some box or container. 

    My son's and my Legos are all mixed together, we like making our own creations rather than follow directions. My daughter has a small trofast bin that keeps the one set she likes. Duplos go in their separate bin. I kept mine from childhood and my BIL isn't ready to part with his from childhood so the kids get to play with a set at grandma and grandpa's house.

    In the beginning of our LEGO buying, I was like this. The issue (beyond the Star Wars sets my boys were addicted to) is that the coolest collection of interesting pieces comes from accumulation of the sets. When you just buy the bins of parts LEGO sells, you end up missing out on a huge variety of pieces that let the imagination really run wild.

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    Tell me--what do YOU do with Lego sets at your house?

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    To answer the actual question, the LEGO solution here is that my boys display their favorites in their room. I display their Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter sets in the loft/library upstairs on shelves next to their corresponding books. All of the modulars are in my office. All of the Winter Village sets are either stored assembled or broken down (if they are older and need a good cleaning before the next Christmas) in book boxes in my closet (never the garage because it is HOT here and heat degrades plastic). 

    The rest of the sets have been broken down, sorted by color and type, and stored in a gigantic console cabinet in my office.

    I was never into LEGO and just bought them for my sons and, for a while, some Friends sets for my daughter. When LEGO came out with the Winter Village theme, I started collecting them for us as a family, thinking it would be a good way to get the kids into a winter village. My parents had one that I never cared about, but I thought LEGO would be just the right thing to make it a yearly family project. After that, I realized how much I loved the detail of the adult sets and started collecting modulars. So now I have the full set of modulars, the full Winter Village, the Statue of Liberty, all of the newer flower sets, etc., and I’m part of AFOL, Modular, and Winter Village groups online. 

    And I truly would pay shipping for any LEGO people want to get rid of. 

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