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how do you handle a pre-teen disappointed with a birthday present?
My daughter is turning 12 in a week, and I ordered a Pentax 6 MP digital camera for her. Cost new 169 but I got a factory repackaged refurbished one for 70.
She was hoping for one of those DS lite systems so she could play the new pokemon game coming out. I felt this would be too much for a birthday at that age and would be more appropriate come christmas time.
I am sure she will be happy with the camera, but I imagine that if I was her age I would much rather have the game.
The kids have a Wii that they play and an older gameboy advance so they are not without.
I was thinking of letting her pick out a carrying case after the gift to make it more personal to her and get her a little excited. And/or maybe a photo book to go along with it.
We are going to Acadia National Park this summer, and i thought this would really be a fun present for her on trips. she has an old beat up 1 MP from about 4 years ago that i picked up cheap for $40.
I would be disappointed that she was disappointed in a present that was gotten for her.
Children these days expect whatever they want to be handed to them. If it is not what they wanted then it is not accepted at all.
They have to learn in little bitty steps at a time that they will not always be able to have everything they want to have. It will not magically be returned to the store for what they really wanted.
You made a decision as a parent to purchase this one instead of that one and if you take it back and give in to her wants instead of making her learn a valuable lesson then you will suffer the consequences of that decision as well as her.
Reality is we do not always get things handed to us just as we want them handed t o us.
You know that, you are an adult!
Stop enabling her to want and want and want!
What is ISO in photography / digiscoping? Lions in Kruger National Park, South Africa
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